CIVIC: Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict

CIVIC has already accomplished real change in warfare with a budget of only $380K.

2009 became our most successful year to date with remarkable successes and significant opportunities on the horizon. Our accomplishments include:

• Advocating and helping design a new US program for Pakistani war victims, for which Congress appropriated $10 million;


• Training US officers and enlisted forces, and contributing to new Army policies on civilian harm;


• Authoring the only civilian-authored article in the Escalation of Force handbook now being issued to deployed troops;


• Conferring by invitation with top military officers, government officials and policymakers on how to improve help for civilians harmed in conflict;


• Pressing international forces in Afghanistan for a new compensation policy for civilian casualties, a recommendation supported by Gen. Stanley McChrystal;


• Helping tell the story of Iraqi war victims through a critically acclaimed off-Broadway drama;


• Creating a global movement, the Making Amends Campaign, to change the outcome of war for civilians;


• Building the Making Amends Campaign coalition with a steering committee comprised of Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group, and Handicap International USA;


• Convincing Security Council delegations that ‘making amends’ was an important new issue under protection of civilians for the international community;

Warring parties do not often hear from the civilians they harm; they hear from CIVIC. CIVIC ensures the civilians bearing the brunt of war are not forgotten.

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