PMAP 8281 - Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course focuses on national and international disaster relief, from the politics and economics of international relief and national disaster assistance efforts to the logistics of relief operations and managing volunteers. The foci are the roles of governmental and nongovernmental organizations in disaster relief, policy issues in complex emergencies (e.g., security for relief workers in natural disasters complicated by political conflict), the development of sustainable assistance programs, links between humanitarian assistance and sustainable development, and the developement of international standards for humanitarian assistance, such as the Sphere Project.