United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

UNESCO Chair in Education as a Humanitarian Response (694), established in 2005 at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).

Fields/Disciplines

Social and environmental sciences and educational studies.

Objectives

  • To undertake research into the issue of Education as a HumanitarianResponse and to develop the concept of EHR as pertaining to alleducational provision and not just in respect of disasters and other emergencies.
  • To publish on the issue of Education as a Humanitarian Response in such a way as to reach undergraduate audiences as well as those engaged in higher degree work and as practitioners.
  • To organise conferences and other meetings that will assist the other objectives and also help to develop a UNITWIN network.

Host Institution

Partnership

  • University of Sierra Leone (Sierra Leone). Web site
  • University of the West Indies. Web site
  • Yarmouk University (Jordan). Web site
  • Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Web site
  • Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). Web site

UNESCO Institutes

  • International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP).Web Site
  • International Bureau of Education(IBE). Web site

Other UN Agencies

  • UNHCR. Web site
  • UNICEF. Web site
  • UNDP. Web site
  • WHO. Web site
  • ILO. Web site
  • Research Institute at the University of Hamburg (Germany)
  • UNESCO Chairs at Nottingham, London and Ulster (UK)
  • Education Committee of the UK Commission to UNESCO. Web site

Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department (CHAD), University initiatives: the Tizard centre Programme in Migration, Mental Health and Social Care at the University of Kent.

NGOs

  • Oxfam,
  • ActionAid,
  • the Refugee Council,
  • Street Child Africa and Engineers Against Poverty (EAP).

UNESCO Sector/Office responsible for the Chair/Network

Education, IIEP.

Document

Progress report 2008-2009 (short version)

Contact

Dr Colin Brock, The University of Oxford, Department of Educational Studies
UNESCO Chairholder
E-Mail address - colin.brock(at)edstud.ox.ac.uk
Work Phone - 44-1865-274048
Fax - 44-1865-274027
Street - 15 Norham Gardens
City - Oxford OX2 6PY
Country - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Website