Session 3D: Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) - Teaching Undergraduates Humanitarian Assistance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes and the IIHA’s New Summer Program
Location
BCC Mezzanine
Start Date
14-6-2012 2:00 PM
End Date
14-6-2012 2:45 PM
Description
This panel discussion will focus on the lessons learned and dilemmas encountered as the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University develops its unique International Humanitarian Affairs Minor program. The IIHA established The International Humanitarian Affairs Minor, available to undergraduate students at Fordham College Lincoln Center and Rose Hill in Fall 2010. As the first minor program of its kind, we believe that it is important to keep faculty and staff aware of it progress as something that could be a part of the future of JUHAN member universities. The session will also introduce the International Humanitarian Affairs Summer Program, a new program designed for students around the world to earn a certificate in International Humanitarian Affairs. A three-week residential program, this intensive course offers undergraduate students the opportunity to earn 8-10 credits from Fordham University. As a program designed around humanitarianism, the summer course would be an excellent way for students to expand upon the theme of “Global Perspectives on Humanitarian Action” beyond the JUHAN conference.
Session 3D: Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) - Teaching Undergraduates Humanitarian Assistance: Issues, Challenges, and Successes and the IIHA’s New Summer Program
BCC Mezzanine
This panel discussion will focus on the lessons learned and dilemmas encountered as the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University develops its unique International Humanitarian Affairs Minor program. The IIHA established The International Humanitarian Affairs Minor, available to undergraduate students at Fordham College Lincoln Center and Rose Hill in Fall 2010. As the first minor program of its kind, we believe that it is important to keep faculty and staff aware of it progress as something that could be a part of the future of JUHAN member universities. The session will also introduce the International Humanitarian Affairs Summer Program, a new program designed for students around the world to earn a certificate in International Humanitarian Affairs. A three-week residential program, this intensive course offers undergraduate students the opportunity to earn 8-10 credits from Fordham University. As a program designed around humanitarianism, the summer course would be an excellent way for students to expand upon the theme of “Global Perspectives on Humanitarian Action” beyond the JUHAN conference.
Comments
Facilitators:
Brendan Cahill is the Executive Director of the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) and its partner organization, the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC). As such, he is directly responsible for all worldwide administrative and financial issues pertaining to those organizations. He has run programs in New York, Geneva, Cairo, Dublin, Istanbul, Barcelona, Penang, and Nairobi. He received his BA from Colby College and his MBA from Fordham University.
Alexander Van Tulleken M.D., joined the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) as its new Helen Hamlyn Senior Fellow in 2011. van Tulleken has conducted aid work in Darfur, Russia, Peru and the Congo, and comes to Fordham from the University of Toronto, where he was a senior resident at Massey College. He earned his medical degree in 2002 at Oxford, and completed a master’s degree in public health in 2009 at Harvard, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.