
A United Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) convoy delivers aid packages in the rebel-held town of Nashabiyah in eastern Ghouta for the first time in five years on 30 July 2017.
Throughout the conflict in Syria, the government has severely restricted how and where aid is delivered for military or political purposes. This paper offers a new framework for international humanitarian organizations and UN agencies to provide assistance to those in need.
Haid Haid is a Syrian columnist and a senior consulting research fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme. He is also a research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), King’s College London and a PhD candidate at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London where he focuses on Jihadi governance. Haid’s main research interests include security policies, governance, conflict resolution, and non-state actors. Previously, he was a programme manager on Syria and Iraq at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung-Middle East Office in Beirut. He also worked as a senior community services-protection assistant at UNHCR, Damascus office. Haid holds a BA in Sociology, a post-graduate diploma in counselling, an MA in social development and an MA in conflict resolution from King’s College, London.