Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
From the Syrian refugee crisis to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, humanitarian emergencies have reached unprecedented dimensions and proportions. As need for humanitarian aid grows, how can efforts to alleviate human suffering evolve with it?
This course from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and HarvardX seeks to prepare learners to recognize and analyze emerging challenges in the humanitarian field. The course explores the ethical and professional principles that guide humanitarian response to conflict and disaster. Participants will learn the legal and historical frameworks that shaped these principles, test their applicability to the challenges faced by humanitarian actors today.
Through four case studies covering the responses to crises in Goma (Zaire), Somalia, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Pakistan, participants will engage with Harvard faculty, current practitioners, and one another. These cases introduce major trends affecting the current landscape of humanitarian response – including rapid population displacement, violence against aid workers, and civil-military engagement. Thoughtfully engaging with this course will prepare participants to be informed and aware humanitarian practitioners, scholars, policy-makers, and global citizens.
What you'll learn
- Legal and historical frameworks shaping the professionalization of the humanitarian field
- An applied understanding of the principles guiding humanitarian response and the tensions that arise when operationalizing these principles in modern crises
- How to recognize and adapt to major trends affecting the scope and implementation of humanitarian work
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It had very informative case studies on humanitarian aid responses and the problems that arose in these real life disaster situations.
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workers who actually face
This e-learning series is specially designed for humanitarian workers who actually face critical situations in field during conflict situations and humanitarian crises.
discussions were really interesting
I really enjoyed this course - especially I am glad for participation of people from really different fields who has different personal and professional points of view (as teachers and participants so even discussions were really interesting).
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This kind of coureses will equip us to go the deep root of the problem where our world is facing.
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strongly recommend it
I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in the state of the world today in responding to humanitarian crises.
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Well organized, well presented, fair grading, highly informative.
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Instructor (The Ethics of Humanitarian and Cross-Cultural Interventions) $30k
humanitarian aid worker/nurse $36k
Inquiry Response Coordinator $46k
Emergency & Humanitarian Action Coordinator $65k
Corporate Response Team $65k
Monitor & Response Technician $66k
Analyst, Load Response $66k
Operations / Emergency Response $68k
First Response Technician $74k
Project Manager - Humanitarian Support Professional (HSP) $80k
Customer Response Specialist 1 $85k
Humanitarian Affairs Officer $102k
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