The 2024 in-person Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course run by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative registration has opened. The course will be offered July 16 – 19, 2024 in Cambridge, MA. Be the first to register and take advantage of the early registration discount through May 1, 2024.
The Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course, first held in 2013, is a four-day course organized by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative via its Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative to train humanitarian professionals on current issues, challenges and good practices involved in urban humanitarian emergencies. The course faculty and visiting experts are experienced in humanitarian training with on-the-ground experience with humanitarian crises in urban areas.
Humanitarian organizations, international agencies and governments serving populations affected by emergencies such as disasters and conflict increasingly find themselves working in urban settings. Agencies face considerable challenges and some potential advantages in these complex urban environments and are only just learning how to approach them. These new challenges take many forms such as density, infrastructure, complicated physical layouts, unprepared institutions, complex governance arrangements, a range of actors (often with competing interests) and a wide diversity within affected populations.
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