MHCi Humanitarian Activities are led by:

 

Jawahir Adam BA (George Mason), M.St (Oxford)

 

• Applying CSR ideas to peace-building activities in conflict and post-conflict situations
  

•  Advocating for engagement  of private sector actors in conflict prevention strategies
  

• Evaluating humanitarian interventions, impact of migration on host countries, development programs, human rights and gender issues

•  International experience.  Work has been carried out in many countries including:  Switzerland, Haiti, South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Malawi, Zambia, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kenya, Somalia, Sierra Leone and Kuwait

• UNHCR, UNDP, OCHA, DFID UK, etc

Ms. Adam frequently speaks about the crisis in Somalia and the need for a different international approach

  Selected keynote speeches 

• Oxford University, Oxford Forum for International Development ‘Development in Crisis and Conflict: Speech on the  Somalia crisis, 6 February 2010  (http://oxfid.weebly.com/speakers.html)
  

• Trinity University Washington DC, ‘Failed States and the Somalia Crisis' 12  March 2009
• Harare, Zimbabwe, conference organized by the International Office for Migration (IOM) and The African Capacity Building Agency on 25th October 2006: Presentation on ‘Migration and Development in Africa
• London - Chatham House: 2nd September, 2005: Speech on the ‘Role of the Diaspora and Development for Africa - the case of Somalia'
  
• Los Angeles - June 24^th, 2005: Conference organized by the Somaliland Policy & Reconstruction Institute, Somaliland:  Speech on ‘Clan mentality and its disadvantages 

    Selected Humanitarian Feature Articles

• Africa's Curse Descends on Somaliland , September 2009
  

• Somali Pirates: Criminals or Victims? April 2009
  

•  National Social Responsibility (NSR) and Nation States - September 2008 

• The Brave Women of Zimbabwe , June 2008 

• Somaliland - A Window to the Future  published in Open Democracy Magazine,London, November 2006