Institute for International Health and Development - IIHD

Short Courses

This course aims to provide participants with an overview of the current challenges and policy debates in responding to populations affected by instablity and conflict. Accepted theory and practice will be examined, alternative approaches and frameworks explored and foundations for good practice identified.

The course will address a range of inter-related issues, for example, the importance of global political economy and how development policies have contributed to instability. In particular, the roles of key actors and institutions involved in the international humanitarian system will be analysed. Concepts of vulnerability and the resiliance of individuals and communities and their interaction with health systems in the context of forced migration in conflict and post-conflict settings will also be examined.

Finally, different approaches to assessing the needs of displaced populations and establishing appropriate interventions will be investigated and good practices identified.

Content includes:

• nature and causes of conflict: political economy of war/globalisation/ethnicity
• international humanitarian system - current issues and trends

IMPACT

• analysing impact of conflict on health and health systems
• assessing impact on livelihoods - coping strategies and resilience

RESPONDE: INTERVENTION, MANAGEMENT, COORDINATION

• needs assessment strategies
• coordination, standards, accountability
• gender analysis and planning
• humanitarian priorities in health and basic needs

POST-CONFLICT

• peacebuilding
• key issues in policy and planning

Credit Rating: 15 SCOTCAT/5ECTS