Under the Patronage of HE Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (CHS-DI) will open this afternoon.
The opening ceremony will be attended by Stephen O’Brien, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. O’Brien will deliver a lecture entitled “The Future of Humanitarian Response” to highlight most pressing humanitarian challenges facing the region and role of the UN and Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in responding to crises, catastrophes in the Arab world and beyond.
Dr. Sultan Barakat, Director of the CHS-DI said: “The launch of a centre specialised in conflict study and humanitarian action at this time is of utmost importance. We are confident our centre will play an instrumental role in augmenting region’s ability to respond to growing humanitarian need and we look forward to working together in the field.”
The Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS-DI) is a new inter-disciplinary research and study centre at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. It conducts original and rigorous research on the causes, impact and responses to conflict, humanitarian crisis, state fragility and transitions in the Middle East and North Africa. CHS-DI seeks to reconcile the worlds of theory and practice in order to focus more directly on effective problem solving.
Meanwhile, DI announced that it started yesterday admission for Masters degree for autumn 2017-18 and will continue up to February 15, 2017.
The institute also announced two new masters programmes on psychology and social works, taking the total programmes it runs to 14.
DI will start receiving applications for masters degrees in psychology and social work starting from November 30, 2016 said Dr. Yasir Suleiman Malley, Acting President of DI.
Admissions are open for masters programmes in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Public Administration and Development Economics and the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Action, Malley stressed.
