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...Center has been led by Professor Mark H. Moore, who will remain a part of the Executive Team as Faculty Chair. The Executive Team, comprised of three members, will be completed today with the arrival of Executive Director Aviva Luz Argote. While focusing primarily on international humanitarian efforts, Stone said he hopes to develop the Center’s presence on campus. “We want to work collaboratively, do joint projects with many other organizations around the University,” he said. “We can provide workshops and opportunities for the students who are interested...
...have seen a shift in Sadr's strategy, I believe," said Gen. Raymond Odierno, the ground commander for U.S. forces in Iraq. "He has talked more and more about moving toward a more humanitarian movement, a political movement more like his father had, and away from a more lethal, militia-type movement...
...Washington, D.C and then another to Baghdad, the hometown he hadn't seen in 20 years. "It went back centuries - not decades," Dr. Hakki says of his first impressions. Now the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, the country's largest aid group, he bemoans the lack of humanitarian assistance in Iraq. "I used to treat patients from Iran, from Saudi Arabia and from Kuwait - but now we send our patients [there]. It's ironic. It's a lot worse than when I left...
...easy target for assassination. As a precautionary measure he doesn't tell his colleagues when he will be arriving or leaving, and he resides in the heavily fortified Green Zone, which he never leaves after dark. "They are afraid - the security is fragile, still," Dr. Hakki says of expatriate humanitarian aid workers, with whom he pleads to return to Baghdad during his trips out of the country. "They say - they are very polite in their reply - they say we don't have the green light yet. The U.N. said that a lot of pressure has been put on them. They...
...donor face - not having that overall comfort knowing how effective the resources are." On a recent trip Crowley made with colleagues from the U.N., he went to an area of Adhamiyah, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in northern Baghdad, full of internally displaced people, or IDPs in humanitarian lingo. For some of his colleagues who had been in the country a year it was one of their very first such visits. Through the thick glass he could see the different living arrangements of the IDPs, some living in middle-class housing, others living in ramshackle buildings made of cement, wood...