The Consortium for Humanitarian Service and Education (CHSE) provides intensive hands-on opportunities for domestic and international disaster relief and humanitarian workers to learn how to conduct safe and effective relief operations.

The Consortium is an award-winning collaborative effort of academic, government, and non-governmental organizations in the United States and Europe that develops curriculum and organizes three annual events:

    - Humanitarian Studies Conference - Florida 14-16 January 2011

    - ATLANTIC HOPE - Florida 3-6 March 2011

    - SVETLINA - Florida and Macedonia 18 May - 6 June 2011

ATLANTIC HOPE and SVETLINA are civilian-designed and civilian-led exercises that recreate the challenges and conditions humanitarian operators encounter in the real world.

Past participants have included students and practitioners in emergency management, humanitarian assistance, post-conflict reconstruction, stability and peace-building, psychology, criminal justice, geography and political science.

For more information about the Consortium for Humanitarian Service and Education or to attend its field exercises please contact info@humanitariantraining.org

All photographs on this site are taken from past ATLANTIC HOPE or SVETLINA exercises © 2009 CHSE.

Site last updated 27 June 2010.