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The Harvard Humanitarian is a monthly e-newsletter compiled by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) to publicize news, publications, and events in the Harvard community related to advancing responses to humanitarian crises of war and disaster. Please help us make this a robust resource by contributing your Harvard community news items via email.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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mumbaiVOICES.com to document terrorist attacks
mumbaiVOICES.com, a project sponsored by HHI, will document inter-agency communication and medical response narratives in coordination with city government officials to analyze disaster response efforts in the November 11th terrorist attacks. For more information, visit www.mumbaivoices.com.
Harvard's Ethan Zuckerman analyzes citizen reporting and the blogosphere in Mumbai attacks
Berkman Center for Internet & Society fellow, Ethan Zuckerman, blogs about the role of citizen media in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, contrasted to Kenya's election violence and the Georgia/Russia conflict.
Harvard conducts disaster training in Mumbai
HHI faculty partnered in early November with the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and other entities to train emergency responders, hospitals and state agencies in a disaster simulation exercise. This effort is expected to lead to a training curriculum for first responders and public health workers in collaboration with University of Mumbai, Public Health Foundation of India and others. Read more in The Times of India.
HSPH researcher to return to eastern DRC
Jocelyn Kelly, Gender-based Violence Research Coordinator for HHI, will return to Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo this month to continue research on sexual violence against women and the region's current conflict.
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UPCOMING EVENTS at HARVARD
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listed here are subject to change without notice. Please contact the
event host for more information.
Waging Peace Darfur's Children's Drawing Exhibit
December 1 - December 12
Taubman Rotunda, Taubman Ground Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
For more information on the exhibit please see the Waging Peace website.
Rape and Sexual Violence in the Eastern DRC Conflict: What we still need
to know
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:30pm-1:30pm
The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Room G-11, 651 Huntington Avenue, 7th floor, Boston
Featuring:
- Dr. Michael VanRooyen, Associate Professor, HSPH
Dr. Roger Luhiriri, Panzi Hospital, Bukavu, DRC Jocelyn Kelly, Gender-based Violence Research Coordinator, HHI
Sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and HSPH Student Government's Global Chat series. For more information, contact Cecilia Gerard.
Rebel Recruitment, Taxation, and Violence in Civil War
Thursday, December 4, 2008, 12:15PM
Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
Brown Bag Lunch
Open to the Public
Speaker:
Philip Verwimp, Research Fellow, Fund for Scientific Research
(Flanders, Belgium), University of Antwerp, and ECARES, Université
Libre de Bruxelles
What
is the profile of communities, households, and persons who become
victims of violence in civil war? What is the relation between the
recruitment of members of rebel groups and the location and timing of
violence. Do grievance and greed play a role?
Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come-first served basis. For more information, contact: Susan Lynch.
Public Health Emergencies
& The Human Cost of War
Kennedy School Disaster Management Series
Thursday, December 4, 2008, 12:30
to 2:00 pm
Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer
Room 380
Featuring:
Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH,
DTM
Professor & Woodrow Wilson
International Scholar
Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative, Harvard University
Professor Burkle will talk on the emergence of public health
emergencies that have become a worldwide common thread linking declines
in the protective layers of public health infrastructure and systems
and the excessive mortality and morbidity that occur, often silently,
after war, conflict, and large-scale natural disasters. Public health
emergencies and the vulnerabilities they expose have become the 21st
Century's new humanitarian crisis demanding unique challenges
to management and response.
Middle East North Africa Public
Health Conference
Panel B: Human Rights, Health and Development
Friday, December 5,
11:25 AM - 12:20 PM
Harvard School of Public Health, Kresge, G-1
Speakers:
- Moderator: Gregg Greenough, MD,
MPH, Director of Research,
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Attending Physician, Division of International
Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine,
Brigham & Women's Hospital
- Sarah
Leah Whitson, JD, Executive
Director, MENA Division, Human Rights Watch
- Noam
Chomsky, PhD, Professor
Emeritus of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presented by The Harvard School
of Public Health Middle East Students Group and The Harvard Arab Alumni
Association
Monday, December 8, 2008
12:00 -1:30 pm
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
A Town Hall Meeting commemorating World AIDS Day and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Keynote address by:
Honorable US Senator John F. Kerry, Senate, Foreign Relations Committee
With:
- Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, MD, Co-Pastor of Bethel A.M.E., Director of Sisterhood for Peace, and Chairwoman of Save Darfur Coalition
- Rebecca Haag,President and CEO of AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Executive Director of AIDS Action Council in Washington,DC
- Jim Yong Kim, MD,Director of François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Chair of Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Moderated by Pat Daoust, MSN, RN, Director of Health Action AIDS Campaign at Physicians for Human Rights.
Lunch will be served. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged by visiting www.physiciansforhumanrights.org/townhall. For more information call Jirair Ratevosian at 617-301-4212. Sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Partners in Health, the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
The Genocide Convention at 60 years: New Challenges
or the Same
Ones?
Join Harvard University in commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the
Genocide Convention.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 4:15-6:00 PM
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, Cambridge MA
Keynote:
Richard Goldstone, Learned Hand Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Panelists:
- Jacqueline Bhabha, University Committee on Human Rights Studies
- Claude Bruderlein, Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research
- Alex de Waal, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
- Jennifer Leaning, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
- Jens Meierhenrich, Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies
- Susannah Sirkin, Physicians for Human Rights
- Michael VanRooyen, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. For more information, contact Jacqueline Crowley.
Harvard Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Wednesday, December 10th, 6-8pm
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
Panel Featuring:
Dr. Paul Farmer
Professor Amartya Sen
Moderated by: President Drew Faust
Followed by a Special Performance by: Oumou Sangare. For more information, visit: Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th Anniversary.
Sixty Years of Human Rights: Implementation and Innovation
A Conference Hosted by the Humanities Center at Harvard and the University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Time to be announced - please check here
The Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Session 1: Implementation of International Human Rights at the State Level
Session 2: Social and Cultural Aspects of Human Rights
Session 3: Teaching and Implementing Human Rights
With generous support from the Volkswagen Foundation.
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PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
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- Attanayake V, McKay R, Joffres M, Singh S, Burkle FM Jr, Mills E. "Prevalence of mental disorders among children exposed to war: a systematic review of 7, 920 children". Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2009 January-March; 25 (1): 3-17
- Bhat, Mihir, "Biz opportunities to reduce risk," The Economic Times, 12 Oct 2008.
- Ghuneim, Mona, "Aid group, advocates say US must do more to help the Congo," Voice of America, featured on ReliefWeb.com, 03 Nov 2008.
- "BMC plans disaster mgmt institute," The Times of India, 05 Nov 2008.
- Ireland, Corydon, "Post-colonial wars parsed at Radcliffe: Nuanced analysis, range of views mark interdisciplinary conference," Harvard University Gazette, Harvard News Office, 06 Nov 2008.
- de Waal, Alex "How Genocides End," Making Sense of Darfur, SSRC Blogs, 25 Oct 2008.
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About The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
HHI fosters interdisciplinary collaboration at Harvard University in order to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian strategies for relief, protection, and prevention; instill human rights principles and practices in these strategies; and educate and train the next generation of humanitarian leaders. In 2005, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative was established as a University-wide interfaculty academic and research center, supported by the Office of the Provost and the Harvard School of Public Health with the participation of faculty from Harvard schools and affiliated hospitals. For more information, visit www.hhi.harvard.edu.
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