Displacement in the Arab World

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The class will address specific topics related to displacement in the Arab World and the framing of humanitarian and aid responses. It will include issues related to refugees, internally displaced populations (IDPs), and humanitarian access during conflict. The course requires that students use quantitative or qualitative methods to analyze original data available in the course related to the above issues. Students will choose one of these methodological tracks and will develop those skills over the course of the semester. The class will culminate with student projects using the knowledge developed in the course coupled with the students' analytical and research methods that produce rigorous material for dissemination. Students will bring a broad familiarity with displacement issues to the class or extensive knowledge of the Arab world. Those with more specialized knowledge of either displacement issues or the Arab World or of quantitative or qualitative skills are particularly welcomed.