Cendep, Oxford Brookes

13/12/2022

Want to be a change maker engaging with the 21st century challenges?

Join the MA Development and Emergency Practice (DEP) course.

Admissions for MA DEP 2023-24 are now open.

Running successfully for the last 30 years, the course is one of the oldest in UK and Europe and has won the prestigious Queens award for Higher Education. With its emphasis on participation, disaster risk reduction and climate change, conflict transformation, refugee response, human rights and enablement, our students are challenged to interrogate current development and humanitarian practices examples as critical thinkers and future practitioners.

Find out more about the modules we run and apply to MA DEP course at
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/development-and-emergency-practic

Read the testimonials by our alumni at
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/centres/cendep/testimonials

In case you need more information, feel free to write to Supriya Akerkar (CENDEP Director and course leader) at
[email protected]

Study international development, conflict, disaster management and human rights with the MA / PGDip / PGCert Development and Emergency Practice

30/11/2022

CENDEP's Dr. Farah Mihlar (Senior Lecturer) will on Friday call on governments to agree on a treaty to protect the rights of minorities in an expert presentation to the 15th UN Forum on Minorities.

The Forum will be live streamed on UN TV
https://media.un.org/en/webtv

Farah's presentation will be in the final panel on Friday, 2 December from 10am -10: 45am (UK time).

For more details see: https://www.ohchr.org/en/events/forums/2022/fifteenth-session-forum-minority-issues

All participants are required to register for the Forum using an online registration system Indico following this link. Registrations will be open from 4 October and will close 21 November 2022. No application will be accepted after this date.

30/11/2022

Eary Warning, Human Rights Protection and Genocide Prevention
When: 6 December 2022 at 4:30 pm (UK time)
Where: Chakrabarti Room at JHB, Oxford Brookes University

CENDEP has organised a hybrid panel discussion to mark International Human Rights and Genocide Prevention Day. The event can be attended online via link below

https://brookes.zoom.us/j/86819550177

09/11/2022

MA Development and Emergency Practice (DEP) and MA Humanitarian Action & Peace Building (HAP): Live Webinar and Information Session
When: Nov 16, 2022 01:00 PM

Oxford Brookes is running a webinar for prospective DEP and HAP students next Wednesday (16th), from 1 - 2pm.

Attendees need to register in advance here

This live webinar is a great opportunity to find out about the MA Development and Emergency Practice and the MA Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding offered by the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University. In the webinar, you will have the chance to hear f...

09/11/2022

Read ‘Disaster risk reduction and furthering women's rights’ article by CENDEP's Supriya Akerkar

By Supriya Akerkar You can read the full discussion on links between disasters, development and women's rights in the article here

15/09/2022

CENDEP Newsletter September 2022 issue is available now!

Read the latest issue with information about,
The new Design in DEP module
New Project - Ageing in Displacement
Pathways Home
Discussing Social Life of skills with Young Women in Cameroon
Peace - justice tensions in post-war Sri Lanka
Latest news from MA HAP and MA DEP
Student Profile
New Staff at CENDEP
Other news and events
Publications

http://cendep.blogspot.com/2022/09/cendep-newsletter-september-2022-issue.html

14/09/2022

Record your responses before the survey closes this Monday (19th September).
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CENDEP is considering introducing a blended MA programme. Students on this programme would be able to take a mixture of online and in-person modules from across our two existing MA programmes (MA Development and Emergency Practice and MA Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding) in one combined program...

08/09/2022

CENDEP is considering introducing a blended MA programme with a mixture of online and in-person modules from across our two existing MA programmes - MA Development and Emergency Practice (MA DEP) and MA Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding (M HAP).

As CENDEP alumni, we are keen to hear your feedback on this idea. Click the link below for a short survey about this.

CENDEP is considering introducing a blended MA programme. Students on this programme would be able to take a mixture of online and in-person modules from across our two existing MA programmes (MA Development and Emergency Practice and MA Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding) in one combined program...

17/08/2022

Our Shelter after Disaster (PGCert) course provides you with the knowledge to understand and discuss the essential components of shelter response after a disaster. The course is suitable for students with technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. There is no need to have any previous knowledge in building, construction, architecture or engineering.

To apply

The PG Cert Shelter after Disaster combines development, humanitarian practice and the role of the practitioner intervening in post disaster reconstruction.

16/08/2022

'From Fieldwork to Academia - Europe's migrant movement' by Sue Walsh (CENDEP alumna MA DEP 2021- 2022).

Don't miss Sue's reflective and perceptive journey from being a volunteer to studying at CENDEP. Sue used the lessons she learnt as a volunteer to formulate her master's dissertation and shape her research objectives and methodology.

Sue's dissertation research project has received much interest from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the USA and the British Red Cross. Read it here

By Sue Walsh (CENDEP alumna MA DEP 2021- 2022) In September 2015, the world awakened to the image of ‘ Humanity washed ashore ’ 2 year old ...

15/08/2022

Have you seen our MA Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding (MA HAP) course, delivered jointly with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). It’s offered part time (distance learning). This course is also relevant for practitioners working in other fields interested in exploring opportunities in conflict transformation.

You can apply now for September 2022 entry.

Investigate the interactions between humanitarian action and peacebuilding on the MA Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding.

27/07/2022

'Pathways Home launch' by Sue Webb and Bill Flinn

A new guidance for humanitarian actors aiming to support the process of self-recovery after disasters has been published by the Global Shelter Cluster that articulates the need for a change in mindset in humanitarian responses to disasters linked to natural hazards and to other crises that result in loss of homes.

Read more here

By Sue Webb and Bill Flinn Download Pathways Home here For the first time, guidance for humanitarian actors aiming to support the process...