HHI Year End Report 2013
2013 was another important and impactful year for humanitarianism. From Syria, to Sudan, and the Philippines, we have witnessed and...
Al Shabaab's horrific attack of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi generated over 730,000 tweets during the four-day siege in Spetember 2013. The...
"Finding the Facts": Standards of Proof and Information Handling in Monitoring, Reporting...
Burned to the Ground: Evidence of Potential War Crimes and the Intentional Destruction of Abyei...
Rules of IHL Applicable to the Conduct of Military Operations in Urban Areas
Ukraine - Conflict in the Donbas: Civilians Hostage to Adversarial Geopolitics
Network Analysis of Actors Working to Support Disaster Preparedness and Resilience in the...
Bartel Van de Walle
Dr. Van de Walle is a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University (the Netherlands). During his appointment, he will work on a paper on the response coordination breakdowns in sudden and slow onset disasters as...
Ossama Zaqqout
Ossama Zaqqout is an experienced Public Health Professional with MPH in Global Health from Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. He is specialized in public health emergencies and humanitarian response, with a demonstrated history of working in emergency and disaster contexts such Palestine...
Home: BBR Field Pers II
DisasterNet: Get Involved
Innovation: HarvardX
Stuart Campo
Stuart Campo is a Researcher with the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this capacity, he supports translational research on humanitarian technologies, standards and ethics.
2018 Weintz Award
On Thursday, October 4th, Nadia Murad accepted the Third Annual Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award, presented by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. As a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, she noted the value of receiving this award from humanitarians...
Paula Johnson
Home: European Refugee Crisis Summit
Research: Programs
During those times that the situation was bad
During those times that the situation was bad and in the times that we started seeing the rebels, we stopped sleeping in the huts. We would cook food very fast and run to hide in the bushes. We were doing this every other day whether we hear about them or not. The next day, when you get...
Miriam Aschkenasy
Vulnerable Populations Program: Recent Publications
LRA: Decades of conflict
Brett D. Nelson
Dr Nelson is an attending pediatrician and global health faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. His professional interests are health care provision, development, research, and advocacy for vulnerable...
HuSEHR Concentration Information Session and Lunch
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The beginnings (1985-1990)
The oppression of northern Ugandans, particularly the Acholi ethnic group, by the southern dominated government led to the creation of multiple armed resistance groups. In 1988, Joseph Kony formed the most famous one: the group that would become the LRA. Kony is part of the Acholi tribe...
Adele Waugaman
Home: Nadia
Education: Title
MRF: Intro
Women In War: People
Male and female local defense unit members, South Sudan
Jeremy Nelson
Jeremy Nelson has been a research assistant with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative for the past two years as he continues to pursue his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work has included compiling literature reviews, transcribing...
Catatumbo is one of the few areas where coca production has increased