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In this March 1, 2016, file photo, a Russian soldier keeps watch as local residents receive humanitarian aid in the Syrian village of Ghunaymiyah, about 15 kilometers from the Turkish border.

AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin

Seminar - Open to the Public

Challenges of Humanitarian Access in Syria’s De-Escalation Zones: Student Report Back on Humanitarian Negotiation in the Middle East

Wed., Mar. 28, 2018 | 11:40am - 1:00pm

Taubman Building - WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Room 102

Students from Middle East Initiative-supported J-Term Middle East Field Study Course on Humanitarian Negotiations on the Frontlines (IGA-353M) present their findings and reflect on their experiences investigating humanitarian access and protection issues within 'De-Escalation Zones' in Syria.

Moderated by Claude Bruderlein, MEI Faculty Affiliate; Strategic Advisor to the President, International Committee for the Red Cross; and Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the program on Advanced Training in Humanitarian Action.

People search under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017.

AP Photo/Hani Mohammed

Seminar - Open to the Public

Yemen's Humanitarian Crisis: Conflict, Cholera, and International Response

Tue., Mar. 27, 2018 | 4:10pm - 6:00pm

Belfer Building - Starr Auditorium, Floor 2.5

A panel discussion with Safa A. Karman, Yemeni Investigative Journalist, LL.M. Candidate at Harvard Law School, and MPP Candidate at Oxford University; Kristine Beckerle, Yemen Researcher, Human Rights Watch; Claude Bruderlein, Strategic Advisor to the President of the International Committee for the Red Cross and MEI Faculty Affiliate; and Noor Al-Kasadi, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Yemen.

Moderated by Steven Caton, Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Anthropology Department, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Advanced Training Program in Humanitarian Action.