Many of you will remember the interview I did with Grant Gordon, who works on
humanitarian policy innovation at the International Rescue Committee. That
conversation received a huge response — some of you even wrote in to say it
had changed your career path and you were now reorienting towards humanitarian
work and crisis response. Now, Vox Media, in partnership with the IRC, is
launching Displaced, a podcast about the world’s most pressing humanitarian
crises and the people whose lives they upend. Each week, Grant, alongside his
co-host, IRC chief innovation officer Ravi Gurumurthy, bring on a guest to dig
into the world’s toughest problems — both to understand them and to think
through how to solve them. Today, the world’s most destabilizing crisis is the
civil war in Syria — it’s led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people
and the displacement of millions more, a refugee crisis that has undermined
the European Union and brought America and Russia perilously close to armed
conflict. In this episode, Grant and Ravi interview Stephen Hickey, who served
as UK deputy ambassador to Damascus in 2010, and was ejected by the Assad
regime as its response to the protests became more vicious. So he was in Syria
as this began, and his perspective is crucial to understanding where it’s gone
and why it’s been so hard to solve. If you like this episode, you can
subscribe to Displaced wherever you get your podcasts.
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Many of you will remember the interview I did with Grant Gordon, who works on
humanitarian policy innovation at the International Rescue Committee. That
conversation received a huge response — some of you even wrote in to say it
had changed your career path and you were now reorienting towards humanitarian
work and crisis response. Now, Vox Media, in partnership with the IRC, is
launching Displaced, a podcast about the world’s most pressing humanitarian
crises and the people whose lives they upend. Each week, Grant, alongside his
co-host, IRC chief innovation officer Ravi Gurumurthy, bring on a guest to dig
into the world’s toughest problems — both to understand them and to think
through how to solve them. Today, the world’s most destabilizing crisis is the
civil war in Syria — it’s led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people
and the displacement of millions more, a refugee crisis that has undermined
the European Union and brought America and Russia perilously close to armed
conflict. In this episode, Grant and Ravi interview Stephen Hickey, who served
as UK deputy ambassador to Damascus in 2010, and was ejected by the Assad
regime as its response to the protests became more vicious. So he was in Syria
as this began, and his perspective is crucial to understanding where it’s gone
and why it’s been so hard to solve. If you like this episode, you can
subscribe to Displaced wherever you get your podcasts.
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