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Cambridge 2012 Advanced Professional Trainings

PHAP is pleased to be offering the following series of Advanced Professional Trainings in Cambridge (MA), USA:

The Core Training on Humanitarian Law and Policy is conducted over three full days and serves as unique opportunities for acquisition and refinement of the skills necessary to address contemporary humanitarian challenges. Lectures, case studies, and simulation exercises are integrated into a curriculum narrative informed by legal principles, recent scholarship, contemporary challenges, and current debates. The training is tailored to professionals interested in gaining foundational knowledge, developing a strategic perspective, and engaging in exploratory discussions regarding potential responses to emerging legal and policy questions.

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The Thematic Workshop on Counterterrorism Policies and Implications for Humanitarian Action is designed to introduce humanitarian professionals to the range of debates and legal/practical challenges facing states, human rights advocates, courts, humanitarian agencies and military professionals in carrying out and regulating counterterrorism efforts around the world.  It also seeks to provide an informed forum for discussion and exchange on critical debates informing the development of humanitarian, human rights and security policy. The Workshop will discuss the distinct but sometimes overlapping frameworks of law enforcement and military approaches to counterterrorism. In addition, participants will have a grounding in the core legal approaches of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) as they relate to counterterrorism, as well as contemporary legal and political debates surrounding how these two bodies of law should interact when states fight terrorism. The workshop will then focus on several key areas of practice that are impacted by these normative debates, looking at them from the lenses of military officials, human rights advocates, and humanitarian professionals. 

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