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 a 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 January 14-16, 2011

    - ATLANTIC HOPE - Florida March 5-9, 2010

    - SVETLINA - Macedonia May 17-June 1, 2010

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.