This course provides insight into the phenomenon of internal displacement, a major humanitarian and development challenge in today’s world. Taking a global perspective, you will learn about who internally displaced persons (IDPs) are and where they come from, as well as delving into the fundamentals of the global protection response for IDPs and potential ‘solutions’ for those who have been internally displaced. The course places you at the centre of the learning experience through engagement with a range of robust and challenging activities, materials and online peer engagement.
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Internal Displacement, Conflict and Protection
University of LondonAbout this Course
Skills you will gain
- • Practice evaluating on-the-ground problems to identify pertinent solutions
- • Practice navigating online in order to engage with specialised resources
- • Learn to apply technical legal and policy categories to factual scenarios
- • Practice sifting complex factual information to identify important features and trends
- • Learn to engage with technical concepts
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University of London
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Introduction
This session introduces you to this online training programme, its learning objectives and the essential skills that we envisage you will learn. Please review the Key Information document, the Course Introduction video and activities and then proceed to our first weekly lesson: ' Internal displacement: scale, causes and effects’.
Week 1: Internal displacement: scale, causes and effects
Internal displacement due to armed conflict is a global phenomenon in today’s world. This session introduces you to key figures on the scale of internal displacement globally, as well as current trends in the drivers of internal displacement and its effects on those displaced.
Week 2: The emergence of IDP law, policy and institutions
Since the 1990s, the fundamentals of an international system for responding to the protection and assistance needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have become increasingly established. This session introduces you to debates around the emergence of IDPs as a global category of concern. This session also outlines the main features of the framework for IDP protection at global, regional and national levels, as well as the roles of the main institutional actors at the international level in responding to internal displacement.
Week 3: IDP protection in practice
Last week, you studied law and policy frameworks on IDP ‘protection’ – but, in situations of conflict, what does that mean in practice? This session will examine not only the main elements of the term ‘protection’ in conflict contexts but also the practical challenges and responses to attempting to provide protection to IDPs during conflict. This week will also ask you to think about protection as a state that is not only provided by others but which also be developed through the agency of IDP communities that have their own mechanisms for self-protection in conflict contexts.
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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT, CONFLICT AND PROTECTION
Thanks to all the instructors, professors, Coursera team and the students for a wonderful opportunity to learn, engage and understand the intricacies of internal displacement, conflict and protection.
The course has a lot of valuable information and is laid out in a logical and easy to follow way.
As a general course in IDPs issues, I found this course convenient for the people interested in Humanitarian subjects.
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