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Lecturer(s)
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Princová Květoslava, Ing. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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-Session 1: Orientation/Introduction Sept -Session 2: Basic Principles and Structures, Current Operations, & Role of NGOs Sept. -Session 3: Group Presentations Assignment Intros-Sept. -Session 4: Natural Disasters Oct. -Session 5: Man Made Disasters Oct. Assignment -Session 6: Military-Humanitarian Coordination - Oct. -Session 7: Hunger-Nov. -Session 8: NGOs & the Media Nov -Session 9: Final Class Presentations Nov.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
- Homework for Teaching
- 2 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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This course is a seminar-based course that examines a selection of major humanitarian challenges worldwide in the last 25 years, including current crises. It reviews old and new challenges in humanitarian aid delivery pertinent to natural and man-made disasters, stressing the later, and in particular conflicts and war situations. While the course is organized around seminars covering certain challenges at large, it also discusses the key challenges for categories at risk, such as women and children, displaced people, and reviews the involvement of governments, UN agencies, NGOs, militaries, donors, media and other actors. The course is made up of up-to-date case studies and approaches drawing from International Humanitarian Studies Association Conferences and bi-annual Humanitarian Congress in Czech Republic, when students have opportunity to participate and learn from humanitarians in the field. Students bring their own experience from the field work to the class and prepare presentations based on a mini-scale research that centers around current or recent humanitarian crises and particular challenges faced.
Upon compeltion of the course the studnet will be able to o comprehend and navigate the specific challenges of international relief in conflict settings o crtically assess the role of diverse actors in contemporary humanitarian situations, o account for implications and dillemas of applying the principles and minimum standards of the humanitarian aid o demonstrate understanding of effected populations, community interventions and post-emergency recovery o reflect on humanitarian assistence and development nexus
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Prerequisites
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Student is able to pass the subject in English (lectures as well as seminars) and pass the writen exam in this language.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Working actively, in-class with distributed case-study materials; active class participation; following current humanitarian events; group presentations; written assignments, mini-scale research with the final presentation.
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Recommended literature
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(2013). Humanitarian Futures Programme. ?The Future of Non-Governmental Organizations in the Human Sector: Global Transformations and Their Consequences.?.
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(2018). The Sphere Project. Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards.
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The United Nations. ?The Universal Declaration of Human Rights?.
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UNOCHA. Global Humanitarian Overview 2017..
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Anderson M.B. (1999). Do no harm. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
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Cahill, Kevin M. (2013). History and Hope. Fordham university.
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Cox, D., Pawar, M. (2006). International Social Work.
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Gibbons P. Heintze, H.J.ed. (2015). The Humanitarian Challenge. NOHA, Springer.
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Hilhorst, D. (2008). Saving Lives or Societies.
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Irrera Daniela. (2001). Civil Society and Humanitarian Action: NGOs? Roles in Peace Support Operations. Perspectives, vol 19:1.
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Moore, Jonathan (ed). (1998). Hard Choices, Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention.. Maryland: Rawman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Princová, K. (2011). Jak pomáhat lidem vzdáleným..
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Princová, K. (2009). The City as a Refuge.
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Slim, H. (2007). Killing Civilians..
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