When Disaster Meets Conflict: Aid in Complex Settings
Learn to develop ethical, high-quality responses to disasters in conflict-affected areas. Explore challenges and effective strategies.
Learn to develop ethical, high-quality responses to disasters in conflict-affected areas. Explore challenges and effective strategies.
This course teaches practitioners and students how to develop accountable, high-quality, and ethical responses to disasters in conflict-affected areas. You'll explore the interconnections between disaster, conflict, and aid, focusing on three types of conflict settings: high-intensity, low-intensity, and post-conflict. Through videos, interviews, and case studies, you'll learn to navigate complex humanitarian situations, understand common challenges, and identify effective strategies for disaster risk reduction and response in different conflict scenarios. The course also covers ethical dilemmas and decision-making in the field, preparing you for real-world humanitarian work.
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What you'll learn
Understand the interconnections between disaster, conflict, and aid
Analyze disaster response challenges in high-intensity, low-intensity, and post-conflict scenarios
Apply conflict-sensitive approaches to disaster risk reduction and response
Navigate ethical dilemmas in humanitarian work
Develop strategies for effective coordination in complex environments
Implement 'do no harm' principles in disaster response programs
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4 assignments
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There are 6 modules in this course
This course provides a comprehensive exploration of disaster response and risk reduction in conflict-affected areas. Participants will gain insights into the complex interplay between disasters, conflicts, and humanitarian aid. The curriculum covers three main conflict scenarios: high-intensity, low-intensity, and post-conflict settings, examining common challenges and effective practices in each context. Through case studies from various countries, students will learn to apply conflict-sensitive approaches to disaster management. The course also addresses ethical dilemmas and decision-making in the field, preparing humanitarian workers for real-world challenges. By the end, participants will be equipped with practical tools and strategies for developing conflict-sensitive disaster response programs that adhere to the 'do no harm' principle.
Disasters, conflict and aid
Module 1 · 2 Hours to complete
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in high-conflict scenarios
Module 2 · 1 Hours to complete
DRR in Low-conflict scenarios
Module 3 · 1 Hours to complete
Disaster Response in Post-conflict scenarios
Module 4 · 50 Minutes to complete
Hard decision-making & ethical dilemmas
Module 5 · 46 Minutes to complete
Conflict-sensitive policy
Module 6 · 2 Hours to complete
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Instructors
Professor of humanitarian studies
Dorothea Hilhorst is a professor of Humanitarian Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University. She specializes in development in areas affected by disaster, conflict, or fragility, with a particular focus on aid-society relations, exploring the impact of humanitarian aid on society and how people and institutions shape the organization of aid. Dorothea has supervised over 30 PhD candidates and conducted research in settings impacted by disaster, conflict, and fragility, including Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Sri Lanka. She currently directs a research program on situations where conflicts intersect with disasters, which is the basis for this MOOC.
Anthropologist (Ph.D)
Roanne van Voorst (Ph.D.) is a researcher and writer affiliated with the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University, The Hague, and a member of the Dutch Future Society. As an 'anthropologist of the future,' Roanne’s research explores a sustainable and kinder future, addressing topics such as the future of food, social life, love, and sexuality. In 2014, she earned her PhD with distinction at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR), focusing on risk responses of slum dwellers in Jakarta, Indonesia, to floods and other disasters. She has also conducted long-term research on the social effects of climate change in Greenland, particularly regarding gender roles and gender-based violence. Additionally, Roanne has worked as a consultant on the sustainable future of cities, developed online training programs, and is an internationally published author of both fiction and non-fiction. Her upcoming book, Once We Ate Animals (2021), explores a future world where plant-based eating has become the norm.
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