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Humanitarian Assistance and Intervention
- To learn about the history of humanitarianism and its emergence as a field of practice and study.
- To understand the ways that humanitarianism—in both theory and practice—borrows from development yet is also in many ways distinctive.
- To discover the assumptions that underlie humanitarianism and the challenges it faces.
- To appreciate the ethical dilemmas inherent in humanitarian action.
- To understand how humanitarianism relates to wider questions of political economy, climate change, globalization, and international relations.