Press Release
The Middle East Initiative has launched a new series, "Syria's Humanitarian Crisis," in partnership with various centers and departments across Harvard University to focus on the plight of Syrian refugees and the escalating humanitarian crisis in Syria and its neighboring countries. This ongoing series of events is co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (HKS), the Human Rights Program (HLS), the FXB Center (HSPH), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (FAS) and The Forum at HSPH.
Click on each individual event below for more information and check back to this page regularly for additional events that will be added to the calendar. Use #HarvardonSyria to engage with the events and their sponsors. For more information on Syria, check out the Harvard-Belfer on Syria page.
GROUND ZERO: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF A HUMANITARIAN AID WORKER IN ALEPPO
Wednesday, October 2nd | 4:30pm | Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Pablo Marco, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), Mid-Career Master in Public Administration ’13, Harvard Kennedy School
Organized by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN SYRIA
Wednesday, October 16th | 12:30pm | Watch Live Online: ForumHSPH.org
A forum with Recep Akdağ, former Minister of Health, Turkey; Jennifer Leaning, Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights; Michael VanRooyen, Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Paul Spiegel, Deputy Director for the Division of Programme Support and Management, UNHCR; and Aaron Schachter, PRI’s The World and WGBH (moderator).
Organized by The Forum at HSPH, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and presented in collaboration with PRI’s The World & WGBH.
SYRIAN REFUGEES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
This event was postponed until spring 2014.
Friday, November 1st | 12:00pm | Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Shaden Khallaf, Lecturer, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies and Department of Law, American University in Cairo
Organized by the Middle East Initiative.
CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN SYRIA AT A POLITICAL AND OPERATIONAL LEVEL
Tuesday, November 5th | 4:00pm | Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Claude Bruderlein, Senior Researcher, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University
Organized by the Middle East Initiative.
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