Red Cross Training:
Exploring Humanitarian Law
AY 2011 - 2012
Peace & Conflict Studies
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Red Cross Training, in
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Red Cross Training, in Washington, DC:
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Migdalia Garcia, International Education Committee Coordinator, and Carlos López, Peace and Conflict Studies Coordinator, who received the "2012 Bright Idea Award" from Northwest Vista College for their innovative partnership with the American Red Cross.
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Philip Rodriguez, Migdalia Garcia, Alfred Lopez (Red Cross), Angie DeLuna (Red Cross), Andrew Hill, Melody Crenshaw, Carlos Lopez, and Neil Lewis. This is the team that brought International Humanitarian Law to the campus of Northwest Vista College!
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I served on the Peace and Conflict Studies Committee. We engaged the campus in a wide variety of activities that stress the local, national and international aspects of conflict transformation. 
Members of the the committee worked to integrate into their courses the Exploring Humanitarian Law Program (EHL) developed by the American Red Cross. The program is described this way:
"The programme is, above all, aiming to deal with ethical and humanitarian issues arising in armed conflicts, and the main education objectives are to develop awareness of the necessity of existence of humanitarian norms, to understand different perspectives and to encourage interest and the feeling of responsibility for local and international events. These objectives are to be achieved by treating concrete cases, which serve as an incentive to formulate and focus on the dilemmas and possibly juxtaposed standpoints; finally, possible answers from the point of view of IHL are offered through debate." |
         Bringing it to the ClassroomAfter specialized training in EHL, our NVC team brought the program into the classroom this fall semester. For example, as part of our on-going support from the American Red Cross, we were able to tie our classes into a live "Webinar" hosted by Gary Solis, author of "The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War" (2010). Professor Solis is a retired Professor of Law of the United States Military Academy, where he
directed West Point's Law of War program for six years. Below are the slides for his presentation of September 13, 2012, and details of his textbook: 
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The 2012 Exploring Humanitarian Law Institute for Educators Inspiring Educators at the 2012 Institute! On June 29th, the American Red Cross’s Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL) Institute for Educators wrapped up in Washington, D.C. More than 40 educators congregated for three and the half days at American Red. 
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Carlos López, Peace and Conflict Studies Coordinator at NVC, participates in the EHL Institute for Educators, June 25 - 28, 2012 in Washington, DC.
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