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Humanitarian Agenda

Exploring and highlighting the changing landscape of humanitarian assistance in the 21st century.

With an unprecedented number of humanitarian crises around the world, the Humanitarian Agenda is committed to inform policy solutions to novel humanitarian challenges through expert dialogue and analysis and to developing and advancing avenues for improving humanitarian response and increasing humanitarian access.

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  1. Developing and advancing avenues for increasing humanitarian access to suffering populations—particularly in armed conflict.
  2. Unpacking the challenges at the intersection of counterterrorism and humanitarian action and offering solutions.
  3. Integrating humanitarian considerations more effectively into U.S. foreign policy and national security decision-making.

The Humanitarian Agenda leverages the expertise and research of a variety of CSIS programs. This work is a part of a unique partnership between CSIS and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.

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