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The Jan Egeland Lecture Series: a forum for advancing ideas in the fields of humanitarian affairs and crisis prevention
In the framework of its programs, the Institute for Advanced Studies on the United Nations will organize every semester a thematical conference around and issue related to humanitarian affairs and conflicts prevention. Besides the teachings, students will be entitled to assist regularly to the Jan Egeland LEcture Series.
Jan Egeland is a personality devoted to humanitarian causes. He has been the President of Amnesty International Norway, Vice President of the international executive committee of Amnesty International, Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross, Director of studies on development at the Henry Dunant Institute, and more recently, he has been appointed Under Secretary General of the United Nations in charge of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and coordinator of emergency relief of the UN, by Kofi Annan in June 2003. After dismissal in December 2006, Ban Ki Moon appointed him Special Advisor with Assistant Secretary General status. Since Marche 2007, he is affiliated with the Department of Political Affairs.
This to honor this unique career as a humanist and humanitarian worker that we have named this conference after Jan Egeland. He has been present during numerous humanitarian crisis: in 1996 for the Guatemala peace agreements, in 2005 after the tsunami, in 2006 during the war in Lebanon, and recently in Gaza. His career reflects well what is the humanitarian world today, between NGOs and UN system agencies. This is what our Master in Humanitarian Affairs & International Cooperation wishes to demonstrate.
The objective of these conferences is therefore to reunite periodically students, professors and external guests around issues related to humanitarian field activities. Each conference lasting 1 hour will allow a high level expert to express on a designated issue and to reflect with his interlocutors during a debate following the intervention. Students, future actors of the humanitarian field will be given the tools to stress theoretical and practical knowledge facing professionals. These encounters will be the occasion to discuss and think about pertinent problematic. They will give students the opportunity to acquire a point of view out of the frame of their teachings and to encounter with distinguished names of the humanitarian and international affairs field.
Octobre 2009 - Global Humanitarian Challenges : lessons from the frontlines
- By Jan EGELAND, Director of Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt
- Curriculum on the NUPI website
- Video
- Lecture notes by the students of the graduate studies in Humanitarian affairs and international cooperation
