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The Evolution of Humanitarian Response: From charitable roots and current challenges to future directions

January 30, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Brown Lounge, Brown Hall

Join us for The Evolution of Humanitarian Response: From charitable roots and current challenges to future directions presented by Dale Buscher.

Dale Buscher is the vice president for programs at the Women’s Refugee Commission where he leads the organization’s work on refugee livelihoods, youth, adolescents, gender, and disabilities.

Buscher has been working in the refugee assistance field since 1988 in a variety of capacities, including managing humanitarian programs in the Balkans, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia and working at the research and policy level in New York and Geneva. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on refugee protection, urban refugees, and gender issues and conducted research and assessments on refugees issues in over thirty-five countries.

Buscher is an adjunct associate professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be provided.

This talk is sponsored by Brown School’s Office of Global Programs, McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Graduate Center at the Provost’s Office, and Center for Human Rights, Gender & Migration and Global Health Center at the Institute for Public Health.