Humanitarian Operations and External Assistance

Program Overview

This program from Bournemouth University's Disaster Management Centre explores the challenges of providing external assistance in disaster scenarios. Through simulations, students engage as a deployed team offering support to a country facing natural hazards. The program emphasizes the distinction between humanitarian operations and intervention, and culminates in applying lessons learned to national plans.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This unit introduces you to the challenges that arise when external assistance is offered to another country. You will discuss the differences between humanitarian operations or assistance and humanitarian intervention. Using a developing set of scenarios, you will engage in simulation exercises as a deployed team offering external assistance to a country faced with a number of natural hazards. The unit concludes by then applying those lessons identified to the home national plan.