Since 2013, EAAF has traveled to Lebanon at the invitation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), Act for the Disappeared and other organizations, to provide training to various sectors of Lebanese society on the search for people who went missing during that country’s civil war (1975-1990).
In November 2015, EAAF organized and conducted the 1st Forensic Science School for the Middle East and North Africa, in partnership with the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut, with support from the clinical anatomy and forensic medicine departments. This school brought together participants from the field of forensics in the region for training on different topics in forensic archaeology and anthropology, such as the collection of antemortem information, the prospection and excavation of mass graves, the recovery of human remains, the forensic examination of human skeletal remains, forensic genetics, the identification process, integrated forensic reports, and the notification of family members.
At the same time, EAAF participated in several studies and debates that culminated in 2018 in the enactment of a law regarding missing persons and victims of enforced disappearance, which contemplated the creation of a national commission mandated to investigate individual cases of disappearance, locate and exhume mass graves, and activate a search process.
In November 2025, EAAF conducted a mission to Beirut at the ICRC’s request, which focused on strengthening the country’s forensic medicine system, which is in a critical state. The mission consisted of providing technical and strategic advice and facilitating dialogue among key state actors at the national level, including the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Culture (Directorate General of Antiquities), the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (Internal Security Forces, Scientific Police Department, Forensic Genetics Laboratory, Crime Scene Unit), the Lebanese Armed Forces (Forensic Unit under the Military Police), the National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared in Lebanon, and the Islamic Health Society (IHS).
