Global Displacement: War, Safety & Human Rights
Discover how international frameworks address internal displacement challenges while examining effective protection strategies and lasting solutions worldwide.
Discover how international frameworks address internal displacement challenges while examining effective protection strategies and lasting solutions worldwide.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of internal displacement, a major humanitarian and development challenge worldwide. It covers the scale, causes, and effects of internal displacement, the emergence of IDP law and policy, protection practices, solutions and development, social contexts, and lived experiences of IDPs. The course takes a global perspective, examining who internally displaced persons (IDPs) are, where they come from, and the fundamentals of global protection responses and potential solutions. Participants will gain insights into the complexities of internal displacement through engagement with research, creative sources, and online peer discussions. The course is designed for beginners and offers a mix of theoretical knowledge and practical skills, including the application of legal and policy categories to real-world scenarios.
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What you'll learn
Explain the main trends in internal displacement and why IDPs merit special assistance
Assess 'protection' and 'solutions' for IDPs, including links to development
Evaluate the experience of internal displacement using research and creative sources
Apply technical legal and policy categories to factual scenarios
Analyze complex factual information to identify important features and trends
Evaluate on-the-ground problems to identify pertinent solutions
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There are 7 modules in this course
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of internal displacement, conflict, and protection issues on a global scale. It is structured into seven modules, each focusing on a crucial aspect of the subject. The course begins with an introduction to the scale, causes, and effects of internal displacement worldwide. It then delves into the emergence of IDP law, policy, and institutions, providing a framework for understanding the global response to internal displacement. The subsequent modules cover practical aspects of IDP protection in conflict situations, solutions and development challenges, and the social context of displacement, including gender considerations. The course also explores the lived experiences of IDPs, incorporating creative and advocacy perspectives. Throughout the program, participants engage with a range of materials, including video lectures, essential readings, and interactive discussions. The course emphasizes both theoretical understanding and practical application, encouraging learners to analyze complex scenarios and evaluate on-the-ground problems to identify relevant solutions.
Course Introduction
Module 1 · 1 Hours to complete
Week 1: Internal displacement: scale, causes and effects
Module 2 · 4 Hours to complete
Week 2: The emergence of IDP law, policy and institutions
Module 3 · 3 Hours to complete
Week 3: IDP protection in practice
Module 4 · 4 Hours to complete
Week 4: Displacement solutions and development
Module 5 · 4 Hours to complete
Week 5: IDPs in social context
Module 6 · 4 Hours to complete
Week 6: Internal displacement as lived experience
Module 7 · 4 Hours to complete
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Professor of Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies at the University of London
Professor David Cantor, Ph.D., is the founding Director of the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) and the Internal Displacement Research Programme (IDRP) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. With a background in social anthropology, he has extensive experience as a practitioner, having served as a Legal Officer for the Refugee Legal Centre and as a Senior Advisor to UNHCR. His research focuses on refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and the dynamics of displacement due to disasters and conflict, with fieldwork conducted in Latin America since 1998. Professor Cantor has published seven books and over 30 journal articles and book chapters, and has organized more than 100 RLI conferences and workshops. His contributions to the field have been recognized with the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year in 2017–2018. He also co-runs the distance-learning Master's program in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies, aiming to equip students with practical knowledge and skills in this critical area of law and policy. Through his work, he has advised various governments and NGOs on refugee protection issues, making significant contributions to both academic research and practical policy development.
Lecturer in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures at Birkbeck, University of London
Dr. Agnes Woolley is a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, specializing in Transnational Literature and Migration Cultures. Her research interests encompass contemporary and postcolonial literature, theatre, and film, with a particular emphasis on migration and diaspora themes. She is the author of Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and has published extensively on topics such as asylum, refugee arts, climate change, and contemporary literature. Currently, Dr. Woolley is working on her forthcoming book Moving Images: Refugees in Contemporary Screen Culture (Bloomsbury, 2022), which explores the connections between contemporary screen cultures and geopolitical refugee discourses. Additionally, she contributes to openDemocracy by reporting on migration issues and collaborates with grassroots refugee organizations in London, advocating for the rights and representation of displaced individuals.
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