Locally-led humanitarian aid: Peter Walker at TEDxLakeGeneva

Humanitarian Strategist Peter Walker With over 25 years of field experience in international humanitarian relief, Peter Walker now leads a team of 30 academics and practitioners at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. His group conducts research to better understand the factors that lead to, or exacerbate humanitarian crises, and how to effectively respond to them. Walker is actively involved at all levels: driving policy and international standards whilst also training aid workers for crisis response during his annual disaster simulation workshop at Tufts. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)