Event Title
Pre-Conference Workshop- Contemporary Humanitarian Action: More to Admire than to Despise?
Location
BCC 206
Start Date
12-6-2012 12:00 PM
End Date
12-6-2012 3:00 PM
Description
The session is aimed at students who are familiar with basic aspects of humanitarian affairs: humanitarian principles, the main actors and stakeholders, the distinctions between responses in complex emergencies and natural disasters. We will begin by addressing some of the important dilemmas in contemporary humanitarian action: professionalization, the private sector and the integrated mission. We will look at ways in which power is distributed in humanitarian responses, what sets of interests and expectations determine the shape of humanitarian responses, and the structures which allow and conceal the political instrumentalization of humanitarian responses. The class will then divide into small groups for a case study and stakeholder analysis. This exercise will form the basis of a discussion and round up which will conclude the session.
Pre-Conference Workshop- Contemporary Humanitarian Action: More to Admire than to Despise?
BCC 206
The session is aimed at students who are familiar with basic aspects of humanitarian affairs: humanitarian principles, the main actors and stakeholders, the distinctions between responses in complex emergencies and natural disasters. We will begin by addressing some of the important dilemmas in contemporary humanitarian action: professionalization, the private sector and the integrated mission. We will look at ways in which power is distributed in humanitarian responses, what sets of interests and expectations determine the shape of humanitarian responses, and the structures which allow and conceal the political instrumentalization of humanitarian responses. The class will then divide into small groups for a case study and stakeholder analysis. This exercise will form the basis of a discussion and round up which will conclude the session.
Comments
Facilitator: Alexander van Tulleken, M.D., Senior Research Fellow, Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University
Biographical Summary: van Tulleken 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.