Challenges and Opportunities in Humanitarian Action: Conversation with Jessica Alexander

Presented by Office of International Programs

November
29
12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Private
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Date:
November 29, 2018
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12:00pm - 2:00pm
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Private

The humanitarian aid industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Jessica Alexander, Adjunct Professor at NYU Wagner and author of Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid has worked as an aid worker and more recently as a consultant since the early 1990s. Her experience includes responding to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, managing a refugee camp in Darfur, collecting evidence for the Charles Taylor trial in Sierra Leone, and managing aid response to the Haiti Earthquake in 2010. More recently she was worked as a consultant evaluating humanitarian aid programs. She will discuss the key challenges and constraints facing effective humanitarian action and the promising pathways for making humanitarian assistance effective in often inhospitable environments.

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