At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Discuss the main protection of civilian concepts and principles, operating environments and related legal or normative frameworks;
• Explain the protection roles and responsibilities or mandates and objectives of states, non-state armed actors, humanitarian actors and international peace & security operations;
• Analyse protection threats and risks and identify or distinguish the protection needs of specific individuals or groups (women, boys and girls, IDP, refugees, etc.);
• Understand protection mainstreaming, programming and operations;
• Design and implement various field protection strategies.

Around 20-25 hours of work each week, including:

• Asynchronous self-study activities (such as case studies, videos, recorded slideshows, readings, etc.)
• Synchronous live sessions (2-3 times per week)

• Day 1: Introduction to the protection of civilians in armed conflicts;
• Day 2: The protection architecture (I): protection norms and principles;
• Days 3-4: Protection assessment: complex environments, strategic priorities, threats and civilians at risk;
• Day 5: Protection monitoring and information management;
• Day 6: The protection architecture (II): mandates, agencies and coordination mechanisms;
• Days 7-8: Humanitarian protection responses;
• Days 9-10: Peace and security operations.

• Professionals in the humanitarian, development or social sector who wish to increase their understanding in protection norms, policies, doctrines and strategies;
• Professionals of international and regional peace operations, national defence and security forces who wish to develop their understanding of protection of civilians and institutional and field level;
• Graduate students with relevant volunteer or intern experience (2-3 years), looking to undertake a postgraduate course with a view to entering the humanitarian sector.