Production of four hours of educational videos, CD-Roms from 200 hours of filming the 1997 inaugural Centre for International Humanitarian Cooperation course: International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance, the first ever diploma for aid workers. Volatile Media developed the CIHC website as part of an “institutional memory” for humanitarian aid workers, arranging the donation of transcription services by Phillips’s UK labs while developing the SpeechExec Pro dictation software. CIHC directors included Lord Owen, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Cyrus Vance and Paul Hamlyn.
CONTENTS OF CIHC TRAINING VIDEOS
COMPLEX EMERGENCIES
- Responding to Crisis: Former Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson
- Rwanda Case Study: Former EU negotiator in ex-Yugoslavia, Lord Owen
- Complex Emergencies: Prof Barry Munslow, Liverpool University
PEACEKEEPING
- Peacekeeping in the Post Cold War Era: Former UN Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- Landmines: Former World Health Organisation spokesperson, Col Larry Hollingworth
- Peacekeeping in former Yugoslavia: Lt Col Colm Doyle, Irish Army
DEVELOPMENT & REFUGEES
- The Aid Business: Chris Sealy, Management Education Assisting Development, and Jo Kreysler, International Federation of the Red Cross
- Legal Status of Refugees: Rick Towle, Senior Legal Adviser UN High Commission for Refugees
- Shelter at Camps: Paul Sherlock, Oxfam
HUMAN RIGHTS
- Rape as a Weapon of War: Olive Braiden, Irish Rape Crisis Centre
- Torture: Mohammed Al Sader, Irish Centre for the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors
- Humanitarian Law: Michel Veuthey, International Committee of the Red Cross
