Humanitarian Action in Practice

Students have the option to choose between two practice -based modules that involve applying their knowledge gained through the NOHA Master’s to two humanitarian projects based at the IFHV. Students can choose from either: 
-Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disaster Risk
-International Humanitarian Law Clinic

 

In this module, students will engage with the concepts of vulnerability, resilience and disaster risk. Based on this, they will receive a short introduction to space-based technologies and learn how to use geospatial information and services to support all phases of the disaster management cycle. Finally, they will learn about the essential components of a disaster risk reduction program for developing the resilience of a selected community. This module works with the World Risk Report, a publication on global disaster risk currently being published in conjunction with the IFHV and support of the NOHA Network.
 
Topics of discussion focus on:
-Conceptual Background and Critical Aspects
-Methodological Approaches to Disaster Risk and Needs Assessments
-Disaster Risk Reduction in Practice

 

In this module, students work alongside a professor and law students here at the Ruhr University Bochum on actual current cases involving humanitarian organisations. NOHA Students working in this module may work on answering specific humanitarian sub-questions of real humanitarian law cases that are worked on for months at a time. Past cases have included organisations including MSF, ICRC, and the German Red Cross.
 
Topics of discussion focus on:
-Applied International Humanitarian Law
-Humanitarian Space
-Negotiating Access
-Protection of Humanitarian Workers