{"id":2644,"date":"2014-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.rcsbahrain.org\/bahrain-red-crescent-hosts-humanitarian-diplomacy-forum-manama\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T21:00:00","slug":"bahrain-red-crescent-hosts-humanitarian-diplomacy-forum-manama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcsbahrain.org\/en\/bahrain-red-crescent-hosts-humanitarian-diplomacy-forum-manama\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain Red Crescent hosts humanitarian diplomacy forum in Manama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Participants from Bahrain Red Crescent and 12 countries in the region have gathered for two days in Manama to determine priorities of working in the framework of humanitarian diplomacy in the region.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cDiplomacy in the service of humanity\u201d forum kicked off\u00a0yesterday in Bahrain under the patronage of the Bahrain Red Crescent Society in the Bahraini capital Manama, in the presence of several state officials, representatives of governmental bodies and humanitarian organisations and delegates from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement representing 12 countries.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In his opening speech, Bahraini Health Minister, Mr Sadeq bin Abdul Karim Al Shahabi stressed on the need to set up humanitarian diplomacy mechanisms as an approach to be adopted by relief and humanitarian workers around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSince the establishment of the Bahraini Red Crescent Society in 1970, the organisation has been striving to be active within the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement,\u201d Mr Al Shahabi said, listing the National Society\u2019s outstanding projects in the humanitarian and social fields in the Kingdom and abroad, and which included training volunteers on responding to emergency calls, and awareness promotion campaigns on health issues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Dr Abdullah Al Hazza&#8217;a, the General Secretary of the Arab Organisation for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the importance of the forum lies in its timing, when the region is witnessing armed conflicts, unrest and violence which all had negative effects on the lives of millions of people. Dr Al Hazza\u2019a mentioned the current situation in Syria and other countries of the region which are suffering from dire humanitarian conditions as an example of the increasing challenges in the region.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Al Hazza\u2019a continued: \u201cAmid some parties\u2019 neglect of international laws, especially the Geneva Conventions of 1949 which represent the cornerstone for humanitarian work and which secure human beings\u2019 right in receiving aid, the Arab Organisation for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has taken the initiative to hold this essential forum\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe main objective behind using diplomacy in humanitarian work is strengthening capacities to gather relevant resources, in addition to responding to the needs of vulnerable people,\u201d said the Director of the IFRC for the Middle East and North Africa, Mr Elias Ghanem. \u201cWe cannot effectively attain set humanitarian goals without turning humanitarian diplomacy into an integral part of the work of National Societies and the IFRC while securing \u00a0necessary tools to serve it,\u201d Mr Ghanem added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The deputy head of the International Committee of the Red Cross regional delegation, Mr Yehia Khalil considered that the main goal behind introducing diplomacy in the humanitarian work is establishing new approaches to the work of the The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and which includes advocacy, negotiations, communication, and official agreements, in addition to other procedures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Fawzi Amin, the Secretary General of the Bahrain Red Crescent Society, meanwhile said that humanitarian diplomacy is a concept that has long been adopted in the West but has only been recently introduced in the region. \u201cWe want to be the first to explore the effectiveness of diplomacy in our humanitarian and relief work not only on a local level , but on a regional level and in cooperation with all our regional and international partners\u201d.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panels have discussed during the two days of the forum,\u00a0issues related to the theory and practice of humanitarian diplomacy, the challenging environment as well as the importance of cooperation and coordination during conflicts and emergencies for a stronger humanitarian diplomacy. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the end of the forum, participants have agreed to foster humanitarian diplomacy efforts in the region for a better coordinated humanitarian approach and to set up a training program which focuses on humanitarian diplomacy to be offered to all National Societies in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants from Bahrain Red Crescent and 12 countries in the region have gathered for two days in Manama to determine priorities of working in the framework of humanitarian diplomacy in the region.\u00a0 The \u201cDiplomacy in the service of humanity\u201d forum kicked off\u00a0yesterday in Bahrain under the patronage of the Bahrain Red Crescent Society in the [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bahrain-red-crescent-news","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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