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Exploring new challenges in human security, international humanitarian law and conflict management

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.

 
Event Highlights
Live Seminar: Challenges to the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict
Thur., Oct. 22, 9:30 am EST

Webcast live from Harvard University. Participation is free of charge but advance registration is required. For more information and background documentation, visit the Forum on Humanitarian Law and Policy.
Advanced Trainings on Humanitarian Law and Policy
The Program is cooperating with HPCR International on the upcoming Core Professional Training on Humanitarian Law and Policy and the Thematic Workshop on Children and Armed Conflict, hosted by UNICEF in November 2009 in Dakar, Senegal.