Co-sponsors

Established in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. The ICRC, which promotes the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, assumes the duties assigned to it by these international treaties and works for their application, comprehension and dissemination. It also encourages the development of international humanitarian law by the community of States. For more information about the ICRC, please visit: http://www.icrc.org.

The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research is a research and policy program based at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Program is engaged in research and advisory services on conflict prevention strategies, the management of humanitarian crises, and the protection of civilians in conflict areas. HPCR advises international organizations, governments, and non-governmental actors and focuses on the protection of vulnerable groups, conflict prevention strategies, and the role of information technology in emergency response. For additional information on HPCR, please visit: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hpcr.