Please be welcomed to apply to this course on Ethics in Humanitarian Negotiation and Mediation. Developed by leading experts in the field, this course is designed to provide participants with knowledge and skills required to navigate the complex ethical landscape of humanitarian negotiation and mediation efforts.
The course will take place online in the period 23-27 September 2024.
Humanitarian action relies on negotiations with political authorities, armed groups, and local communities for access, programming, and protection. These negotiations are filled with ethical dilemmas, such as accepting to cooperate with war criminals and repressive regimes, favoring certain groups or individuals, risking the lives of own staff, or undermining local norms and institutions. How do humanitarian negotiators handle these dilemmas, and what can we learn from ethics in this respect? The humanitarian principles are supposed to guide such decisions, but there is often substantive disagreement on how they should be understood and applied. Examining the ethics of humanitarian negotiation is therefore also an examination of the ethics of the humanitarian principles.
Apply by 15 June 2024.
For further details and registration, please visit https://www.peaceconflictresearch.org/Courses/Course/?x=1166
