White Mountain Research’s Jawad Abou Jaoude is the operations manager for our Middle East projects. Part of his responsibilities are assessing the vulnerabilities of at-risk communities. Pictured here in Iraq with Iraqi forces nearby, he looks over damaged villages in Mosul and Western Iraq, including burned out buildings and Assyrian chapels that were left in the wake of hostilities towards persecuted minorities. WMR provides the security and logistics for relocating displaced peoples and helping rebuild their communities.