Course Description

This section introduces the theme, main content, and structure of the course. Climate-related disasters, war and disease are a constant in our world. Global leaders of all kinds have a duty to develop policies and institutions to limit the worst effects climate change,violence, and ill health on human society. The purpose of this course is to prepare students to take on humanitarian leadership roles in government, international organizations, commercial companies and NGOs, and to challenge current orthodoxies in humanitarian response. The course gives students an overview of the scale and character of war, climate-related disasters and disease in the world today. It then introduces them to the current forms of international policy and global governance that attempt to regulate and manage climate hazards, war and disease. The course concentrates on the predominantly Western field of humanitarian action and humanitarian diplomacy that operate at the frontlines of war and disaster as an urgent life-saving response and emerging global safety net. The Professor uses his own experience to illustrate the main ethical, diplomatic, operational and managerial challenges in humanitarian leadership today and consistently questions the dominant western orthodoxy in humanitarian ideology to see if it makes sense to Chinese values and wider Asian and African models of SouthSouth solidarity. Students will be challenged to stress test the universality of the western model and to actively explore ways to evolve a more authentic and less western and colonial model of humanitarian governance for the 21st century.

课程简介（无中文大纲，译文参考 Google 翻译）

本部分介绍课程的主题、主要内容和结构。气候相关的灾害、战争和疾病在我们的世界中是常有的事。各类全球领导人都有责任制定政策和机构，以限制气候变化、暴力和疾病对人类社会造成的最坏影响。本课程的目的是让学生为在政府、国际组织、商业公司和非政府组织中担任人道主义领导角色做好准备，并挑战人道主义响应中的当前正统观念。本课程向学生概述了当今世界战争、气候相关灾害和疾病的规模和特征。然后，它向他们介绍了试图规范和管理气候危害、战争和疾病的当前国际政策和全球治理形式。本课程主要关注西方占主导地位的人道主义行动和人道主义外交领域，它们在战争和灾难的前线运作，作为紧急的救生反应和新兴的全球安全网。教授用自己的经验来阐述当今人道主义领导面临的主要道德、外交、运营和管理挑战，并不断质疑人道主义意识形态中占主导地位的西方正统观念，以了解它是否符合中国价值观以及更广泛的亚洲和非洲南南团结模式。学生将面临挑战，对西方模式的普遍性进行压力测试，并积极探索为 21 世纪发展一种更真实、更少西方和殖民主义的人道主义治理模式的方法。