I’m just returning from the March Coastal Promise Field Simulation in Florida. I will be posting later this week about the event. The three and a half day experience is designed to prepare aspiring professionals for working in complex emergencies including war situations. One of my Forage Center board members who was with us is an ICRC delegate and will be deploying to Syria in a few weeks. I’ve featured the International Committee of the Red Cross before as a Featured Peacebuilding Group, so this week I wanted to share about another group working in Syria: the Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets. This group of some 3,000 mostly volunteers are the first responders after a bombing or attack on a civilian area in Syria. Nearly 160 members of the group have been killed since its founding in 2014.
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