The Core Professional Trainings serve as unique opportunities for acquisition and refinement of the skills necessary to address contemporary humanitarian challenges. Lectures, case studies, and simulation exercises are integrated into a curriculum narrative informed by legal principles, recent scholarship, contemporary challenges, and current debates.

The trainings are tailored to professionals interested in gaining foundational knowledge, developing a strategic perspective, and engaging in exploratory discussions regarding potential responses to emerging legal and policy questions.

The Core Professional Trainings include modules on:

• Conflict analysis
• Introduction to international humanitarian law
• Relationship between international humanitarian law and human rights law
• Humanitarian protection
• Protection needs of specific groups in armed conflict
• Negotiation of humanitarian access
• Conduct of hostilities and protection of civilians
• Humanitarian coordination
• Implementation and enforcement of international humanitarian law
• Design of a policy initiative

Sample agendas:

Core Professional Training on Humanitarian Law and Policy: Sample agenda

Core Professional Training on Management of Humanitarian Response: Sample agenda

At the conclusion of the Core Professional Training, participants receive a letter of completion from HPCR International confirming their attendance to the course.

Specific information on the upcoming courses, including course fees and application forms, will be available soon on the 2010 Trainings page.