Matti Ibrahim
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UNITED NATIONS INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING & RESEARCH
United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination
(in progress)
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Course Overview: Over the course of six chapters, the UN-CMCoord eCourse will contribute to our awareness and understanding of UN-CMCoord concepts and principles and their practical applications in different operating environments, including the likely dilemmas you will confront. Throughout this online learning experience, we will learn how to successfully navigate the civil-military coordination landscape.
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Course Outline: The UN-CMCoord eCourse is composed of six chapters. Chapters 1 to 4 are mandatory. Upon completion of the first four chapters you can choose to complete either “Chapter 5 : Working in Natural Disasters” or “Chapter 6: Working in Complex Emergencies” to obtain your certificate. We encourage you to complete both chapter 5 and 6 to gain a broader understanding of humanitarian civil-military coordination.
CHAPTER 1: HUMANITARIAN ACTION
Edem Wosornu introduces you to the foundations of humanitarian work, including an overview of key stakeholders, as well as the core humanitarian principles and a basic overview of international humanitarian law that inform humanitarian action.
CHAPTER 2: HUMANITARIAN COORDINATION
Edem Wosornu looks at humanitarian coordination and coordination mechanisms between a multitude of humanitarian actors and other external partners.
CHAPTER 3: UNDERSTANDING THE MILITARY
Lieutenant Colonel Mathias Järvare introduces military concepts intended to assist humanitarian actors in gaining an understanding of key military actors, general military organization, and military missions and planning. El Hadji Ibrahima Diene “Boly” provides perspectives from his time with the military including in peacekeeping, and with UN-CMCoord in Mali.
CHAPTER 4: KEY CONCEPTS OF UN-CMCOORD
Michael Marx describes the general approach of the United Nations to humanitarian civil-military coordination (UN-CMCoord), reviewing the main principles of the global guidelines, outlining the key elements and tasks of UN-CMCoord.
CHAPTER 5: WORKING IN NATURAL DISASTERS
Ronaldo Reario shares his experience on how to implement the five UN-CMCoord tasks in responding to natural disasters.
CHAPTER 6: WORKING IN COMPLEX EMERGENCIES
Teresa Encarnação shares her experience on how to implement the five UN-CMCoord tasks in responding to complex emergencies.
Climate Change International Legal Regime
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment
The Climate Change International Legal Regime course covers the causes and effect of Climate Change; describes the mechanisms established by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and explains the key provisions and commitments established by the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. It presents the legally binding framework in the fight against climate change. It addresses the mitigation of emissions of greenhouse gases and the adaptation to climate change.
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Syllabus: http://bit.ly/2yUu09g
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The Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment course covers the relationship between human rights and the environment; explains the bases for the application of human rights to environmental issues, and the procedural and substantive obligations relating to the environment; and gives examples of constitutions that have incorporated a right to a healthy environment, good practices in procedural and substantive environmental protection.
Syllabus: http://bit.ly/2iKNa8J
Course: http://bit.ly/2iLUb9i
Confronting Trauma
The overall aim of this module is to introduce the international humanitarian, development and UN communities to the large unmet need for psychological trauma care and therapy. It starts by describing the different types of stress and trauma and the dire consequences these can have. After the description of the magnitude of the problem, the module then presents some recent innovations in the field of psychology that have opened up dramatic new possibilities, which hold the promise of an effective response at scale. Going to scale, in turn, poses new challenges and opportunities to the main stakeholder audiences for this module.
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Course: http://bit.ly/2z7d7Fb
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