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Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
 at 
Harvard University 
Overview

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Duration

5 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Course Level

UG Certificate

Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
 at 
Harvard University 
Highlights

  • Earn a paid certificate
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Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
 at 
Harvard University 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • 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
More about this course
  • This course from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Harvard seeks to prepare learners to recognize and analyze emerging challenges in the humanitarian field
  • The course explores the ethical and a professional principles that guide humanitarian response to conflict and disaster
  • Participants will learn a the legal and historical frameworks that shaped these principles, a test their applicability to the challenges faced by a humanitarian actors a today

Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
 at 
Harvard University 
Curriculum

Health, Medicine, Global Health

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Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
 at 
Harvard University 
Faculty details

Jennifer Leaning
Designation : Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Michael VanRooyen
Designation : Director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Professor, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

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Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster
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