Media, Policy and Advocacy in Humanitarian Action, Certificate | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Media, Policy and Advocacy in Humanitarian Action

14 days
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Media, Policy and Advocacy in Humanitarian Action from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine aims to provide you with knowledge and critical understanding of political debates regarding Western humanitarianism and issues pertaining to media and aid delivery and humanitarian action.

Overview

At Media, Policy and Advocacy in Humanitarian Action from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine you will begin by looking at the role of the media in war, which starkly exposes the role of political power in shaping what is covered and how it is covered. We then move on to discuss three different theories that help to explain the relationship between political power and the media.

Students at Media, Policy and Advocacy in Humanitarian Action from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will:

  • explore some of the challenges to existing media power, the role of Aljazera in comparison to the Fox network, and the growing role of social media
  • examine where the international media failed, such as in the Rwanda genocide.
  • learn how to use the media effectively as a tool of advocacy and includes being filmed in a mock interview on camera – in the future, this could help you to manage the media better in a humanitarian crisis.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

  • Realist, Liberal institutionalist and materialist perspectives on humanitarian intervention.
  • Ethical issues surrounding humanitarian intervention.
  • Humanitarian Intervention in the 1990s from Northern Iraq 1991 to Kosovo 1991; aims, motives and outcomes.
  • Humanitarian crisis and US intervention in Afghanistan 2002 and Iraq 2003; dealing with humanitarian crisis during wars of national interest.
  • Media-state-aid agency interactions
  • Empathy, distance, superficiality, negativity and ethnocentric framing of ''third world'' crises
  • Media and foreign policy: the CNN effect, types of media effect and scope of media impact
  • The limits of the CNN effect and humanitarian action including conflict prevention, and post-conflict peace building
  • Media management during humanitarian crises

Key information

Duration

  • Full-time
    • 14 days

Start dates & application deadlines

Credits

10 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

  • Any person who would like to work in or who is working in international development and humanitarianism would benefit from attending this course
  • Students whose first language is not English must provide evidence of an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of at least 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in all learning components, or a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of at least 88 for the Internet-based Test (iBT), with minimum scores of 21 for Listening and Writing, 22 for Reading and 23 for Speaking. Tests should be within their validity period of 2 years.

Tuition Fee

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    1060 GBP/full
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    Based on the tuition of 1060 GBP for the full programme during 14 days.
  • National

    1060 GBP/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 1060 GBP for the full programme during 14 days.

Living costs for Liverpool

556 - 1035 GBP /month
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