Founded | 1997 |
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Type | Private Non-profit |
Focus | Knowledge production regarding marginalized populations in crises |
Location |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
Product | Research, knowledge, and teaching |
Mission | Promote the use of evidence to protect and strengthen the lives, livelihoods, and dignity of people in humanitarian crises |
Website | http://fic.tufts.edu/ |
Formerly called
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Feinstein International Famine Center |
The Feinstein International Center (FIC) is a research and teaching center based at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. The Center’s mission is to promote the use of evidence and learning in operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the lives, livelihoods, and dignity of people affected by humanitarian crises.
The center was founded in 1997 as the Feinstein International Famine Center with an endowment from Alan Shawn Feinstein. The Center was originally set up as a tribute to the victims of the Irish famine (1840-1846) on its 150th anniversary. It was established as one of two centers of learning on famine, one at the Friedman School in Boston, USA, a city that has a large Irish immigrant population, and one at Cork University in Ireland. In 2006, the Center was renamed the Feinstein International Center (FIC).
Today, FIC has a research and teaching agenda that includes nutrition, food security, livelihoods, refugees, migration, urbanization, pastoralism, humanitarian systems and response, human rights, gender analysis, women's and children's right, protection,war crimes, remedy and reparation. Faculty and staff conduct field-based research with conflict and crises affected populations, local and national leaders, humanitarian and development agencies, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), International NGOs, and international organizations.