Lessons Learned is offering a pre-release delivery of the two-day professional development course “The Day My Life Froze”: Urban Refugees in the Humanitarian System for free to interested graduate and undergraduate students. The event will take place at York University in Toronto, on February 23rd and 24th.
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Participants will learn to map the goals and motivations of a wide range of stakeholders in humanitarian crises. They will explore the social, political, and economic dynamics which arise from the interplay between these stakeholders. As a secondary goal, the course acts as a bridge between cutting-edge academic theory, critical “red teaming” approaches, and humanitarian practice.
Note that, if you are not a student, feel free to drop us a line at info@llst.ca and we can arrange something
Course learning objectives:
In completing this course, participants will be able to…
- …describe the social and political dynamics of humanitarian crises with reference to the viewpoints, motivations, and goals of multiple stakeholders, including refugees.
- …demonstrate an understanding of the systems which underlie humanitarian response scenarios by mapping the goals and actions of multiple stakeholders.
- …describe and predict possible breakdowns in humanitarian response by discussing past examples.
- …critically but constructively engage with humanitarian work in general and their own work in particular, in order to improve the quality of humanitarian intervention.
- …communicate possible motivations and goal of people experiencing displacement, and contrast them with humanitarian assumptions.
- …map motivations and goals of multiple stakeholders in humanitarian crises and response scenarios, including those of refugees.