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Kampala 2018 Core Professional Training on Refugees, IDPs, and Forced Migrants: Protection in Law and Practice

Course Description

This course introduces humanitarian practitioners and policy professionals to the international legal frameworks and standards that protect refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and forced migrants, including international refugee law (IRL), the relevant provisions of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL), and soft-law instruments. It also aims to foster reflection among participants on how States, international organizations, and other actors implement these norms and standards in practice.

More and more practitioners are working in situations of humanitarian crisis involving the displacement of people, whether within one country or across international frontiers. Protecting basic rights in these contexts is a task fraught with multiple conceptual, ethical, legal, political, and operational challenges. Over three and half days, this course aims to unpack this complexity and build humanitarian practitioners' confidence and capacity around legal tools and sound protection practices.

Each edition of the new series on Displacement, Forced Migration, and International Law includes a Core Training of three and a half days followed by a set of Issue Roundtables over one and a half days. As a general rule, participation in the Core Training is a requirement for participation in the Issue Roundtables to ensure a shared level of understanding of the full range of relevant norms and practices prior to delving into more complex legal, policy, and operational discussions. Exceptions may be made on a case by case basis.

Participants who want to prepare for the course are recommended to complete the https://phap.org/credentialing-programPHAP Credentialing Program certification in International Legal Frameworks for Humanitarian Action (ILFHA).

Course speakers and facilitators

Théo Boutruche Humanitarian Law and Policy Course Director, PHAP
John Cerone Paul Martin Senior Professor in International Affairs & Law, University of Windsor, and Visiting Professor of International Law, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts University)
Sophie Crozet Independent consultant specialized in forced displacement
Jean-François Durieux

Target audience

The course is designed for experienced professionals who have been exposed to the challenges of protection issues in humanitarian crisis situations – whether from a practical or policy perspective – and is crafted to accommodate mixed groups of participants working under different types of mandates, including staff of NGOs, components of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, the UN and other international organizations, donor agencies, and other governmental entities.