Human Security Field

The Fletcher School’s interdisciplinary curriculum allows students to develop the theoretical and practical skills necessary to respond to today’s global challenges.  For those students interested in the inclusive protection and promotion of well-being of civilians and their communities, Fletcher offers the Human Security and Humanitarian Affairs field of study. The concentration rests at the intersection of human rights, conflict analysis and resolution, development studies, and humanitarian studies, and employs multiple analytic frameworks, including history, anthropology, gender studies, sociology, and psychology. It highlights the overlaps and interactions between these dimensions in order to bring together the concerns and practices that deal with the many faces of, and close relations between, freedom from fear and freedom from want.

The Human Security and Humanitarian Affairs field of study offers a wide range of interdisciplinary courses; a non-exhaustive list can be found below. Additionally, students may opt to pursue one of three specialization tracks within the concentration: Humanitarian, Migration, or Conflict and Political Violence. More information about field requirements can be found here.  

For more information on other areas of specialization at Fletcher, please visit the fields of study pages. 

Course offerings in the human security field include:

ILO L210: International Human Rights Law

ILO L213 International Criminal Justice

ILO L214M Transitional Justice

ILO L216 International Humanitarian Law

ILO 217 International Law and Migration

ILO L224 Peace Operations

DHP D202 Contemporary Critical Theory on International Issues

DHP D207 Religion and Conflict in International Relations: Policymaking Assumptions, Analysis and Design

DHP D213 International Humanitarian Response

DHP D223 Theories of Conflict and Conflict Resolution

DHP D231 Gender and Human Security in Transitional States and Societies

DHP D232 Gender, Culture and Conflict in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

DHP D234 Humanitarian Leadership: The Political and Policy Challenges of Being in Charge

DHP D235M Overview of Research Methods

DHP D237 Nutrition in Complex Emergencies: Policies, Practice and Decision-making

DHP D238 Current Issues in Global Immigration Policy

DHP D239 Forced Migration

DHP D240 Children, Violence, Protection and Resilience DHP D241Climate and Migration

DHP D242 Famine, Livelihoods, and Resilience: Food Security Analysis and Response in Crisis

DHP P202M Security Sector Reform: Conceptual and Contextual Debates in Peacebuilding

DHP P207 GIS for International Application

DHP P221 Memory Politics: Truth, Justice, and Redress

DHP P222 Development Aid in Policy and Practice

DHP P225 Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Peacebuilding and Development Programming

DHP P228M Advanced Evaluation and Learning in International Organizations

DHP P246M Civil Resistance

DHP P293 Democracy and State Reform in Latin America

DHP P295 Introduction to Human Security

DHP P297: Engaging Human Security

DHP P298: Conflict in Africa

EIB B230 Managing NGOs and Social Enterprises

EIB E241: Development Economics: Policy Analysis