The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research is an international research and policy program based at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to new challenges in the field of humanitarian affairs. Key sectors of activity include:

Human security - a complement to state-centric security models with a focus on individual and community needs as an important guarantor for sustainable peace and stability;

Conflict management - theoretical and operational strategies to contain and resolve hostilities persisting between state parties and/or non-state actors;

International humanitarian law - deriving from the Hague Regulations, the Geneva Conventions, and the Additional Protocols, a set of rules intended to regulate the conduct and effects of armed conflict.