Displacement & Humanitarian Intervention Short Course
The Centre for Minorities Research (CMR) is offering a 2-week, intensive online professional development course on ‘Displacement and Humanitarian Intervention’. Led by an interdisciplinary team of world-leading experts, this 30-hour course covers the latest theoretical and practical perspectives on displacement, aid prioritisation, local responses to disaster-affected populations, medical approaches, epidemics, relief-to-recovery transitions, and relations between displaced and host nations. Professionals working in the fields of displacement and humanitarian aid, including governmental and non-governmental policymakers and practitioners, will particularly benefit from the course’s strong praxis-based orientation. Those with a broader interest in human rights and humanitarian intervention will also gain from the course’s explicit alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Teaching methods include workshop-style discussions, mini-lectures, group work, interactive role-play, and simulations based on real cases. Offering a dynamic and interactive learning experience, the module is also specifically designed to foster participants’ creativity, empathy, compassion, and capacity for community-building
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Course Dates
24th February to 7th March 2025
Attendance Online
For 10 days at 2pm to 5pm (GMT)
This course is designed for applicants who have a good level of English. If English is not your first language and you are uncertain what this means, please refer to the global CEFR scale – on this scale, we would be looking for applicants to be at the B2 level. You may also wish to refer to this self-evaluation PDF to help you understand if you are indeed at the B2 level.
Course Programme
24th February 2025
Introduction: Displacement and the Humanitarian Encounter
Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, Department of Social Anthropology, Director of the Centre for Minorities Research
Practical element in discussion
Prof Stephen Gethins, School of International Relations
25th February 2025
Memories of loss and displacement: working with intergenerational memories of displacement
Dr Gönül Bozoğlu, School of Art History
26th February 2025
Displacement, Violence, Trauma and Substance Use Disorders
Prof Alex Baldacchino, School of Medicine
27th February 2025
Epidemics, Displacement and Humanitarian Action
Prof Christos Lynteris, Department of Social Anthropology
28th February 2025
Complicity or Compromise? How the humanitarian identity can navigate the frontiers of power in conflict and complex emergencies.
Dr Alasdair Gordon-Gibson, Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies
3rd March 2025
Child Displacement, Violence, and Humanitarian Intervention
Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, Department of Social Anthropology
Imagining children’s rights, through international law and fiction
Dr Catherine Mackenzie, St Leonards Fellow
4th March 2025
Hospitality as Peace Building: Identity, Recognition, and the Politics of Openness
Dr Jeffrey Murer, School of International Relations
5th March 2025
Regional Refugee Resettlement: How do Communities and Health Systems Respond?
Prof Frances Quirk, School of Medicine
6th March 2025
Understanding China’s approaches to humanitarian intervention and strategic culture
Dr Catherine Jones, School of International Relations
7th March 2025
Displacement, Legal Identity and Statelessness
Prof Caroline Humfress and Dr Konrad Lawson, School of History
Speakers
Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Professor of Practice in the School of International Relations
Deputy Head of School of History
Lecturer in Modern History
Senior Lecturer in Collective Violence
Lecturer in the School of International Relations
Professor of Medical Anthropology
Prof Alexander Mario Baldacchino
Chair in Medicine in the School of Medicine
Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine
Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies in the School of Art History
Honorary Lecturer in the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr Catherine (Kate) Mackenzie
St Leonards Fellow
Course Fee
£1.500,00
3 hours course each day, from 2pm to 5pm (GMT)
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Access
This course will be broadcast live on Microsoft Teams.
To attend this course it is necessary to have access to a microphone and camera.
This course is designed for applicants who have a good level of English. If English is not your first language and you are uncertain what this means, please refer to the global CEFR scale – on this scale, we would be looking for applicants to be at the B2 level. You may also wish to refer to this self-evaluation PDF to help you understand if you are indeed at the B2 level.
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