PHAP Online Learning Series on Humanitarian Law and Policy – Independence: Practical dilemmas of principled action

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This learning session will provide a more in-depth treatment of the principle of independence, focusing on practical dilemmas in its application.

Directly following this learning session, a discussion and consultation event in support of the World Humanitarian Summit will be organized in the same virtual room. We encourage participants to take part in both of these events.

Learning objectives

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Event time

NOTE: This learning session is followed by a 90 minute panel discussion and consultation event on the same topic

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

To see when the live session will take place in your time zone, click here.

Event access

This event is targeted to members of PHAP but is open to the public. In order to join the event, please register in advance at phap.org/OLS-HLP-12/register

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Prerequisite knowledge

Recommended sessions:

2. IHL and Core Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence

6. Advanced learning session on humanitarian principles

7. Humanity: Practical dilemmas of principled action 

9. Impartiality: Practical dilemmas of principled action 

11. Neutrality: Practical dilemmas of principled action 

Assessment

PHAP members will have the possibility to undergo a two-part assessment after the session as part of the PHAP Continuous Learning Credits framework.

Part 1: Comprehension check

Part 2: Written reflection

To encourage peer learning among members, selected essay responses will also be published on the website, if approved by the writer. As a member, you can comment on the responses and read other members' comments.

Read the written reflections

Speaker

To be announced

Facilitator

Marc DuBois, currently an independent humanitarian consultant/researcher/blogger, was the Executive Director of MSF-UK from March 2008 until March 2014.  He joined MSF in 1999, landing as a project coordinator in Khartoum, Sudan, where he managed a basic healthcare program. Following Sudan, Marc went to Angola as a Humanitarian Affairs Officer and then moved to Amsterdam, spending over six years in the Humanitarian Affairs Department of MSF-Holland, first as an advisor and later as head of department and researcher. Marc has a degree in philosophy from Yale University (BA 1981), an MA in development studies from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (1988) and a degree in law from Columbia University in New York (JD 1994).