Our Objectives
We create educational opportunities for leaders and practitioners across the humanitarian response sector, while improving the U.S. and international militaries understanding of best practices and lessons learned during complex emergencies and natural disasters. In addition, we advance the understanding of rapidly evolving frameworks and information communication technologies used in humanitarian response.
About Us
We partner with leading universities and humanitarian organizations to advance civilian-military engagement and coordination during complex emergencies and natural disasters. HRP works with a diverse community of affiliated experts committed to improving humanitarian response. A key component of our activity portfolio is to convene our affiliated experts in workshops and conferences to further our reach during humanitarian crises and effectively support humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HA/DR) operations.
Activities
Click to Open - Develop and facilitate new educational programs to improve civilian-military coordination in humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HA/DR) operations
- Develop and facilitate innovative experiential training through humanitarian response exercises and simulations for U.S. and international militaries, civilian universities, NGOs, and IGOs
- Conduct and disseminate evidence-based research on civilian-military coordination during complex emergencies, natural disasters, and exercises
- Deploy assistance and assessment teams to HA/DR operations to better understand challenges and opportunities for improving responses
- Convene and present at workshops and conferences that further civilian-military coordination during humanitarian crises
- Support the professionalization of the humanitarian civilian-military coordination community
- Provide the U.S. military and associated partners with improved disaster planning, execution, and assessment expertise in collaboration with a broad network of affiliated experts and skilled advisors
Humanitarian Response Program Faculty
Our experienced and renowned faculty have years of earned expertise across a wide range of naval and humanitarian educational topics.
Visit Our Core FacultyVisit Faculty Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Research Portal
The HA/DR Research Portal provides easy access to resources for scholars and practitioners working on issues related to civil-military coordination in humanitarian emergencies.
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