Daniel’s thoughts about the International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response BSc
What did you study at college?Having applied to HCRI as a mature student, my A-levels seem like a distant memory now - nearly ten years ago! Back then I studied humanities subjects: Sociology, Politics, English and Geography. Since then I have worked, travelled and...
Ting’s thoughts about the International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response BSc
What did you study at college?I took a different path, not taking A-levels or the International Baccalaureate. I was in an institute more attuned to producing workforce-ready young adults back in Singapore, so I was taught more practical skills in business management...
Joseph’s thoughts about the International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response BSc
What did you study at college?I studied English Literature, History and Geography at college.Why did you choose International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response (IDMHR) rather than another course?Originally I was going to apply for a course in International...
Joseph’s thoughts about the International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response BSc
What did you study at college?At college, I did the International Baccalaureate so in total I studied six subjects. My favourites were Anthropology, History and Chinese.Why did you choose International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response (IDMHR) rather than...
Call for Papers: Peacebuilding Conference 2017
'Peacebuilding during an age of crisis'Annual Conference of the International Association of Peace and Conflict Studies, 11-12 September 2017, University of ManchesterAcademic critiques of contemporary peacebuilding have shown a tendency in recent years to limit their...
Where’s the reconciliation?
by Roger Mac Ginty.December 16 is South Africa’s national reconciliation day. I am just back from a trip there and I was struck by the absence of reconciliation in everyday life. As ever, a short trip in a massive and varied country only affords a snapshot (I was in...
Has the international community failed Syria?
by Fakhri Mansour. Fakhri will be on the panel for our What next for Syria? event on 30 November 2016.According to the humanitarian actors in Syria there are 13.5 million people across Syria in need of some sort of assistance including 861,200 people trapped in 18...
Civil society and the liberal peace: Top down interventions from below?
by Dr Birte Vogel.This blog post is based on Dr Vogel's article published in Intervention and Statebuilding.Over the past decades, peacebuilding has changed. The participation of non-state has steadily increased. This development has been promoted by, at best, mixed...
Questioning humanitarian action in Madagascar
by Eleanor Davey. From the Rova of Antananarivo, a former royal site set high on a hill, the view over the Madagascan capital extends for miles. ‘Tana’ – as it is nicknamed – was founded in the seventeenth century, adopted as the capital under French colonisation, and...
Working From the Ground Up – Everyday Peace Indicators
by Roger Mac Ginty and Pamina Firchow.Governments, international organisations, INGOs and academics have many ways of gauging war and peace. Many of these ways use official and public systems of gathering information, such as relying on statistics gathered by national...
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