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1 ADVANCED TRAINING PROGRAM ON HUMANITARIAN ACTION CORE TRAINING The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency in cooperation with the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research at Harvard University October 2012 Session 1: Mandates, Methods, and Memberships International Committee of the Red Cross. The ICRC: Its Mission and Work. (2009). Leader, Nicholas. The Politics of Principle: the Principles of Humanitarian Action in Practice, HPG Report 2 (March 2000). United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This is OCHA. (2012). United Nations. Humanitarian Affairs. Accessed October 11, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Statute for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. (1950). United Nations Security Council. Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council. (1983). United Nations Office for Project Services. Organizational Overview Accessed October 11, United Nations Development Program. UNDP at a Glance. (2011.) report/file.res/w- undp_brochure_2012- Eng- final.pdf United Nations General Assembly, Sixtieth Session. Resolution 60/251, Establishing the UN Human Rights Council. 3 April UNFPA and Harvard School of Public Health. A Human Rights Based Approach to Programming. (2010). 20full.pdf. See also: tion9_emergencyresponse.ppt World Health Organization. Working for Health: An Introduction to the World Health Organization. ( Session 2,3: Overview of Public International Law Feliu, Vicenc Introduction to Public International Law Research. (2010). Greenwood, Christopher. Sources of International Law

2 Koh, Harold Hongju. Why Do Nations Obey International Laws? Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 2101 (1997). Koskennimei, Martti. The Politics of International Law 20 Years Later. The European Journal of International Law 20, no. 1 (2009). Neff, Stephen. A Short History of International Law. In International Law, edited by Malcolm D. Evans, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Session 4: Legal and Policy Challenges in Humanitarian Action Collinson, Sarah, Elhawary, Samir, and Muggah, Robert. States of Fragility: Stabilisation and its Implications for Humanitarian Action. HPG Working Paper (2010). Gelsdorf, Kirsten. Global Challenges and their Impact on International Humanitarian Action. OCHA Occasional Policy Briefing Series 1 (2010). The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols. Accessed October 11, and- law/treaties- customary- law/geneva- conventions/index.jsp International Committee of the Red Cross. International Humanitarian Law and the Challenges of Contemporary Armed Conflicts. (2011). cross- crescent- movement/31st- international- conference/31- int- conference- ihl- challenges- report en.pdf. Jessen- Petersen, Soren. Humanitarianism in Crisis, United States Institute of Peace Special Report, no. 273, Lewis, Dustin. Briefing Note: Armed Groups and International Law Challenges to Humanitarian Action. Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (2012). lewis/ /briefing- note- armed- groups- and- international- law- %E2%80%94- challenges- humanitar Modirzadeh, Naz, Dustin A. Lewis, and Claude Bruderlein. Humanitarian engagement under counter- terrorism: a conflict of norms and emerging policy landscape. International Review of the Red Cross 93, no. 883 (September 2011) modirzadeh- lewis- bruderlein.pdf Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Global Challenges and their Impact on International Humanitarian Action. (2010). Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Humanitarian Negotiations With Armed Groups: A Manual for Practitioners. (2006). Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Between protracted and crisis displacement: Policy responses to Somali displacement. Workshop Report (2011). displacement.org/ f004be3b1/(httpinfofiles)/9da9bce3bd085638c c86ea/$file/rsc- nrc- idmc- nupi- workshop- report- nov2011.pdf Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. Humanitarian Access in Situations of Armed Conflict: Field Manual,Version 1.0. (2011). manitarian Access_Field Manual.pdf 2

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4 Session 7: Design, Planning and Coordination of an Emergency Response Harvard Humanitarian Initiative/OCHA / UN Foundation. Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies. (June 2011). globalsolutions- files.org/gpgs_files/pdf/2011/disasterresponse.pdf Inter- Agency Standing Committee (IASC). About the Inter- Agency Standing Committee. Accessed on October 11, about- default One Response. [Inter- agency source for humanitarian information]. Accessed on October 11, Reindorp, Nicola and Wiles, Peter. Humanitarian Coordination: Lessons from Recent Field Experience. Overseas Development Institute (2001). World Bank. Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters. (2010). wds.worldbank.org/external/default/wdscontentserver/iw3p/ib/2010/01/27/ _ /Rendered/PDF/528390PUB0safe101Official0Use0Only1.pdf World Health Organization. Guidance for Health Sector Assessment to Support the Post- Disaster Recovery Process. (2010). Session 8: Team management Antares Foundation. Managing stress in humanitarian workers: Guidelines for good practice. (2012). r_good_practice.pdf Buchanan- Smith, Margie and Scriven, Kim. Leadership in Action: Leading Effectively in Humanitarian Operations. ALNAP Study (2011). in- action- alnap- study.pdf People in Aid. Enhancing Quality in HR Management in the Humanitarian Sector: A Practical Guide. (2004). final.pdf Walker, Peter and Russ, Catherine. Professionalising the Humanitarian Sector: A Scoping Study. ELRHA (2010). Session 9: Community Engagement ALNAP. Participation by Crisis- Affected Populations in Humanitarian Action: A Handbook for Practitioners. Global Study, ALNAP (2003). Delaney, Michael and Jacobo Ocharan. Local Capacity in Humanitarian Response: Vision or mirage? Oxfam America Research Backgrounders series (2012) oxfamamerica.org/publications/local- capacity- in- humanitarian- response Overseas Development Institute, Policy Engagement: How Civil Society can be More Effective, 2006, available at Rossier, Masayo Kondo. Linking Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding, CCDP Working Paper. Graduate Institute of Geneva (2011). 1.pdf 4

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