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Center For International Health and Cooperation (CIHC)
Statement of Purpose The Center For International Health and Cooperation (CIHC) was founded in 1992 to promote healing and peace in countries shattered by war, ethnic violence or natural disasters. The CIHC, in all its activities, emphasizes that health and humanitarian endeavors can provide common ground for initiating dialogue, understanding and cooperation among people and nations. The CIHC promotes the concept that health, human rights and humanitarian issues should be central, not peripheral concerns in foreign policy debates. The CIHC tries to identify fundamental needs, and use its talents, contacts, and resources to define practical solutions. With offices in New York, Geneva, London and Dublin, and now affiliated, through its Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA), with Fordham University, it has concentrated on four areas of expertise: Education, Publications, Symposia and Field Operations. 
Programs & Activities
Education
The CIHC identified a fundamental need – to standardize and professionalize the training of humanitarian aid workers. The CIHC’s International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance (IDHA) program was developed in cooperation with, and serves, the United Nations, the International Red Cross, and all major military, missionary, diplomatic and humanitarian non-governmental organizations. The course is held twice a year, in New York and Geneva. The CIHC also offers a more focused course on negotiations, the Humanitarian Negotiators Training Course (HNTC). Funded by DfID and held in cooperation with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, the one – week course trains humanitarian aid workers in the art of negotiations. The course is held twice a year, in New York and Geneva.
Symposia
To provide fresh insights into complex humanitarian problems the CIHC sponsors symposia, which bring together field workers and policy makers to focus pm fundamental problems and offer practical assistance. Past symposia have included Traditions, Values and Humanitarian Action: Foundations, Fault Lines, and Corrections; Preventive Diplomacy: Stopping Wars Before They Start; Framework For Survival: Health, Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance; Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Landmines Crisis.
Publications
The CIHC publishes a wide variety of texts for the medical, diplomatic and humanitarian aid communities. A number of these books are based on the symposia above. In its first ten years, the CIHC has published: Basics of International Humanitarian Missions; Emergency Relief Operations; Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text and the printed result of the above mentioned symposia. To order publications, and for more information, contact our website, www.cihc.org
Field Operations
CIHC representatives contribute to relief efforts in many of the world’s major conflicts. In the last decade CIHC has sponsored field operations in Palestine, East Timor, Macedonia, Aceh, Yugoslavia, Somalia, former Yugoslavia and Nicaragua. |
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Contact Information
http://www.cihc.org
Members: Send contact or program updates to Andrea Bediako, Senior Program Associate for Membership.
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Categories
Org. Type: International Development
Committee/Programs: Public Policy and Advocacy, Strategic Impact
Region of Activity: Europe and Central Asia, North America, Worldwide
Countries of Focus: Ireland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Program Areas, Sector: Education, Human Rights, Information and Communication, Public Policy and Advocacy
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