Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance
Offering mid-career humanitarian professionals an academic setting in which to develop their knowledge and skills in humanitarian action
The Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) is a one-year program offered jointly by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and administered by the Feinstein International Center. The program offers an academic setting where professionals can develop their knowledge and skills in the areas of nutrition, food policy and development as they relate to humanitarian action in famines, complex emergencies and natural disasters.
The Feinstein International Center develops and promotes operational and policy responses to protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of people living in crisis-affected and marginalized communities. The Center works globally in partnership with national and international organizations to bring about institutional changes that enhance effective policy reform and promote best practice.
Faculty
Khristopher Carlson
international human rights and humanitarian law, with an emphasis on youth and armed conflict
Andrew Catley, Ph.D.
Andrew is a recognized international authority on primary veterinary services in developing regions. His most recent work includes the design and facilitation of policy reform processes around livestock relief and development and pastoralism in the Horn of Africa.
Antonio Donini
Humanitarian action
Karen Jacobsen, Ph.D.
Refugee and migration issues; security and livelihood issues in refugee hosting areas, microfinance in conflict areas; asylum countries; Africa; developing countries.
Daniel Maxwell, Ph.D.
Food security, livelihoods, complex emergencies, humanitarian agencies and interventions
Dyan Mazurana, Ph.D.
Women's Human Rights; Children's Human Rights; International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law during armed conflict; Protection during armed conflict; Grave violations of women's and children's rights during armed conflict; Reparation for grave violations during armed conflict; Justice and accountability for grave violations during armed conflict;Peacekeeping; Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of combatants, focus on children and women
Kate Sadler, Ph.D.
Community-based programming, humanitarian emergencies, understanding risk for and vulnerability to acute malnutrition, improving effectiveness of treatment of acute malnutrition, institutional capacity building
Elizabeth Stites, MALD
Household level coping strategies, shifts in land tenure during and after conflict, changes in intra-household dynamics as a function of conflict, and the link between human security, protection and livelihoods
Peter Walker, Ph.D.
Climate change and disasters, humanitarian accountability
Helen Young, Ph.D.
Nutrition in Complex Emergencies, Needs Assessment, Famine
Major areas of current research
Feinstein International Center faculty carry out research in Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Nepal seeking to understand the economic and social complexity of the drivers and consequences of crises in those countries. At the global level research is carried out into the evolving nature of the humanitarian aid system, foreign policy and military interventions in complex emergencies and civil strife.
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