Policy Voices | We know what were doing: UNOPS on delivering life-saving assistance to Gaza
After years of experience in active theatres of war, including in Ukraine, Amir Omeragic, the Director of the Peace and Security Cluster of UNOPS, can confidently say that \u201cwe know what we\u2019re doing\u201d in Gaza. Before the latest outbreak of conflict, a team from UNOPS was already on the ground in Gaza due to the ongoing \u201ccycles of violence\u201d but Amir admits that, now, \u201cit\u2019s nearly impossible [to provide assistance] because conflict is ongoing\u201d. \n\nThe Peace and Security Cluster directed by Amir is responsible for clearing landmines in conflict zones and the impact of this work goes beyond the more immediate life-saving, as Amir explains in this episode of Policy Voices. \n\nAmir is no stranger to conflict having spent time in Bosnia and Herzegovina, his home country, during the war, as well as six years in Afghanistan. He reminds us that civilians are always the ones carrying the brunt of war and that the consequences of conflict are \u201cfar-reaching\u201d.