From Emergency Relief to Durable Solutions

DRC began its humanitarian operations in the North Caucasus in 1997 after the first Chechen war that cost 30,000 lives and the destruction of large cities like Grozny, Gudermes and Argun. The organization was already established in the region when the second Chechen war began and was able to scale up operations and ensure emergency relief to hundreds of thousands of displaced during the ten years it raged. This paper presents the DRC actions taken in the region.