POSC 362 - Politics of Humanitarianism

Politics of Humanitarianism equips students with analytical tools essential for understanding the complexities of humanitarian representation, programming, and evaluation. The course overviews methods by which humanitarian agencies garner support, including critical examination of the media used to do so. It surveys various approaches to implementing humanitarian efforts, underscoring the complexity of actors involved, and how their respective political aims can work out at various levels of analysis, from HQs to the field. It engages evaluation of humanitarian projects including debates about metrics of success and the politicization of data themselves. (Offered every year.) 3 credits