The one-time workshops and informal working groups that came out IUCSHA and other related scholarships underscored the need for more regularized collaboration among New York-area universities with research concentrating on humanitarian action. In 2008, the CSHA was established to harness the respective specialties of different centers in facilitating greater exchange of information on humanitarian action. In addition to RBIIS, other members include centers at Columbia University (Humanitarian Affairs Program at the School on International and Public Affairs), Fordham University (Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs), and New York University (Center on International Cooperation, the Center for Global Affairs, and the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service). This past March, RBIIS hosted the annual Frontiers of Humanitarianism Conference, which was themed, “The Ethics of Responsibility and the Modes of Protection.”


In addition to RBIIS, other members include centers at Columbia University (Humanitarian Affairs Program at the School on International and Public Affairs), Fordham University (Institute for International Humanitarian Affairs), and New York University (Center on International Cooperation, the Center for Global Affairs, and the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service). This past March, RBIIS hosted the annual Frontiers of Humanitarianism Conference, which was themed, “The Ethics of Responsibility and the Modes of Protection.”  

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