Emerging Issues in Humanitarian Response
GHP 262
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The course introduces foundational concepts, theory, and emerging issues essential for understanding and engaging in humanitarian research and intervention. It prepares students to engage in humanitarian response efforts while examining critical challenges with multidimensional global impacts. These issues include armed conflict, social oppression, forced migration, community engagement, and accountability, among other themes. Major approaches to protection and support, including early warning, prevention, and mitigation strategies, are analyzed through case studies and discussion of current research findings, as well as through the lenses of the norms, actors, and processes of international humanitarian and human rights law, operations, and policy.
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