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The Centre offers a wide range of Executive Short Courses on specific topics linked to humanitarian action, including negotiation, advocacy, planetary health, protection and more. The majority of the short courses are delivered online. In addition, the Centre offers a few residential courses either in Geneva or other locations.
The Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.) course is hosted by the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the partnership of University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine's Office of Public Health Studies.
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (French: Académie de droit international humanitaire et de droits humains à Genève) is a postgraduate joint center (between the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) founded in 2006 [citation needed] and located in Geneva, Switzerland.
Humanitarian education is an area of learning that concentrates on the desire or impulse to save lives, protect human dignity and reduce suffering. It particularly relates to offering assistance to others in an emergency or crisis and is also used to refer to the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed for individuals and communities to help ...
Moreover, the international online course "Public Health Principles in Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response" [21] developed by her team to examine the application of public health principles in planning and responding to disaster and humanitarian crises has more than 8,000 students enrolled from six continents since its launch in May 2014.
The course is jointly organized by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Disaster Law Project, the Italian Red Cross and the EU Jean Monnet Module on “International and European Disaster Law” Roma Tre University.
The first event took place in 2015 [8] and in 2021 switched from a week long in-person event to a three-week online mode in 2021. [1]During the 2021 online event there were almost 250 topics, including localisastion, the climate crisis, and better encouraging anticipatory action in areas prone to humanitarian emergencies.
The idea of a United Nations training and research institute was mentioned for the first time in a 1962 resolution of the UN General Assembly. [1] UNITAR was founded in 1963, following the recommendation of the UN Economic and Social Council to the General Assembly, which commissioned the UN Secretary-General with the establishment of a United Nations Institute for Training and Research as an ...