Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 7:00 PM
Recruitment Information Session - San Francisco
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
San Francisco, CA
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question & answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and the recruitment process.
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Location:
The Women's Building - Auditorium
3543 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 2:00 PM
Negotiating Humanitarian Access: How Far to Compromise to Deliver Aid Panel Discussion
at The Brookings Institution
Washington, DC
In many crisis situations, aid agencies are only able to provide assistance through negotiations with a variety of actors—armed groups, health authorities, community leaders—each with its own vested interests. Sometimes compromising basic principles is the price paid for being able to act. Humanitarian negotiations are life-and-death issues for people in need, but they also raise troubling political and ethical dilemmas for the organizations that are engaged in them.
On January 26, the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will host a discussion on the compromises and negotiations the humanitarian aid community must contend with during crisis situations.
Michael Neuman, research director with the Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaries at MSF, will discuss the organization’s new book, Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience.
He will be joined by panelists William Garvelink, senior adviser, U.S. Leadership in Development at the Center for Strategic International Studies; Markus Geisser, deputy head of regional delegation for the International Committee for the Red Cross; and Rabih Torbay, vice president for international operations at International Medical Corps.
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Ferris, co-director of the Project on Internal Displacement, will provide introductory remarks and moderate the discussion.
After the program, panelists will take audience questions.
This event is free, fully accessible, and open to the public.
Registration through the Brookings Institution is required.
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Location:
The Brookings Institution
Saul/Zilkha Rooms
1775 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
