The Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education is a nonprofit preparing the next generation of relief workers with vital hands-on competencies for human-centered response to crisis, conflict, and natural disaster.
PREPARING RESILIENT,
HUMAN CENTERED PROFESSIONALS
to provide the essential hands-on education to build prepared, human-centered, and resilient responders.
​Experience. Learn. Lead.
The Forage Center creates a multi-day, fully immersive humanitarian exercise that mirrors the realities of international disaster response. ​Each cohort faces field conditions and the unexpected challenges that arise during disaster. It's a simulation built to enhance the operational readiness of students eager to serve the world’s most challenging environments.
OUR MISSION
Training emerging leaders since 2014
Our strategic approaches are grounded in humanitarian principles, training the next generation of responders to face complex emergencies with global competency.
Hands on Experience
Through role-play, problem-solving, and team collaboration, students confront the same challenges faced by humanitarian professionals in the field, but hands-on experience prepares students for the challenges of crisis, conflict, and disaster, and the essential skills of competency in emergencies.
Mentorship in Community
At the Forage Center, mentorship is integrated into program activities.
Our alumni often return as mentors and volunteers, creating a cycle of learning where knowledge is shared. This mentorship ensures that participants gain technical skills and the wisdom and resilience of those who have walked before them.
Wisdom through Practice
Forage Center students enhance
their own operational readiness and practical skill-building in real-world
problems. Subsequently, students develop practical wisdom preparing
them for security, emergency, and environmental challenges.
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