INTERNATIONAL LAWS, CONFLICTS AND HUMANITARIAN ACTION

Co-ordinators: Federico Lenzerini

 

Modules:

1. Protection, international law and humanitarian action

In the current humanitarian operations the role of civilian protection became substantial to face complex emergencies and in dealing with multiple actors populating the humanitarian space. This module presents an overview of the main humanitarian approaches, in order to respond to the growing needs of unarmed civilians protections. It discusses strategies and operational practices, critically evaluating the new challenges faced by humanitarian workers and rights defenders, especially in highly volatile environments.

2. Conflicts, crisis and humanitarian actions in Africa and Middle East

This module focuses on the main practices and projects of Humanitarian action in a few selected areas that the students will have to know to develop their own work-projects.

3. Intercultural dialogues

4. International humanitarian operations

This module presents an overview of humanitarianism throughout history, main principles guiding any humanitarian response. During the module students are provided with a critical overview of humanitarianism and its limits. The module discusses main debates about humanitarian principles and reality on the ground, defining the humanitarian space, getting access to the people in needs, and negotiations. This module also aims at providing participants with general knowledge about strategy and management of the humanitarian intervention. It includes a variety of topics from the assessment, on developing an intervention strategy, passing through the implementation and management of the project processes with special.  Working groups and case studies are at the centre of this module.

5. Health system and governance 

This module introduces to principles andstrategies  undertaken with the objective to protect and promote the health of the people.The lecture introduces on main objective of making policies, laws, accountability,system and deploying resources to accomplish Universal Health Coverage (UHC).