IHL in Current Conflicts: Training Course and Seminar
Date/Time:
July 22, 2003 - 9:00am - July 30, 2003 - 5:00pm
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Website:
http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=135&language_id=1&erc_doc_id=16&mo...
Description:
Collectively titled “IHL in Current Conflicts”, this professional training course and advanced seminar on IHL was held at Harvard Law School, with a combined attendance of more than 70 mid-career UN, government, and NGO professionals. These courses were designed to provide practical training on IHL to humanitarian aid workers, policy makers, and practitioners engaged in the development and application of IHL and to create a space for dialogue. The first session offered basic operational training and instruction in IHL, and the second, advanced debate and policy discussions. In selecting the thematic content, HPCR, the ICRC, and HRP drew on their experience organizing a similar seminar in 2001 on international humanitarian law (“International Humanitarian Law and Current Conflicts: New Dilemmas and Challenges for Humanitarian Organizations”).
In partnership with:
The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School fosters course work and participation of students in human rights activities through its summer fellowships, clinical work, speaker series, applied research and scholarship.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given the ICRC a mandate to protect the victims of international and internal armed conflicts.
