IVCO Think Piece "The roles of volunteering in crisis management: a beacon of solidarity and resilience"

This think piece is part of the materials produced in advance of the 2024 International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations Conference (IVCO 2024), hosted by Northumbria University in partnership with Comhlámh. It is available in English, Spanish and French.

The think piece “The role of volunteering in crisis management: A beacon of solidarity and resilience” is written by Amjad Mohamed-Saleem who works at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This piece discusses how volunteering plays a crucial role in crisis management, embodying the spirit of solidarity and collective resilience as a driving force for humanitarian action at community level. The author draws on examples from the work of the Red Cross and Red Crescent International Movement, which mobilises 15.5 million volunteers worldwide, to explore how the challenges of intersecting crises provide important new contexts for thinking about volunteering.