863 search results for “humanitarian assistant disaster responses” in the Staff website
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Andrea BartolucciFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Tanja Hendriks awarded Veni
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded at the ASCL. With this grant, Hendriks will be able to develop the research project 'Taking a Risk on Disasters: speculative humanitarianism amidst a changing…
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How can the humanitarian disaster in Gaza be stopped?
Famine, bombing of civilians and the almost complete destruction of Gaza. The world looks on at an unfolding humanitarian disaster. Why have our international organisations failed to prevent this tragedy? An interview with Professor Jan Aart Scholte, an expert on globalisation and global democracy.
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Tanja HendriksFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Andrew Littlejohn in podcast Talking Humanitarianism
In the episode 'Intersecting vulnerabilities of humanitarian disasters' of the 'Talking Humanitarianism' podcast, Andrew Littlejohn talks with host Ekatherina Zhukova (Lund University, Sweden) about our understanding of vulnerability in the context of humanitarianism to locate responsibility not in…
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Cabane explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters
Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor in Governance of Crises at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, recently published the book The Government of Disasters. In this book Lydie explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters.
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Max Joosten
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Advanced EIHRL LLM Candidates participate in international Humanitarian Law Clinic
The IHL Clinic offers outstanding LLM candidates the chance to work pro bono on KGF projects and gain practical experience in humanitarian law in cooperation with practitioners working in the humanitarian field.
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Responsible collaboration
When you work with partners from home or abroad, these collaborations must be safe and responsible.
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350 years ago, and to mark the occasion PhD candidate Roosje Peeters collaborated on a series of letters to and from a key political figure Johan de Witt,…
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Valerie de KoeijerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law wins Erasmus+ grant
Dr Robert Heinsch and his team of IHL Clinic researchers at the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law have won a prestigious Erasmus+ grant for cooperation partnerships in higher education in cooperation with the IHL Clinics at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and Roma Tre University…
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Littlejohn on NU.nl: 'With Trump taking office, the tide is turning on disaster management'"
More than twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United States with nearly 1,400 deaths. Due to climate change, the lessons from this disaster are more relevant than ever, but the Trump administration seems to be ignoring them by cutting funding for disaster management. Anthropologist…
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Eva BaudichauFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Andrea Richards-CumminsFaculty of Archaeology
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Multidisciplinary minor gives insight into cybercrime, disasters and terrorism
Safety and security risks ranging from cybercrime to terrorism threats are a growing concern worldwide. Technological developments have made security issues increasingly complex. This is typically a topic for the multidisciplinary Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities (LDE) curriculum.
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Agnieszka KazimierczukAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jin YanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Arjen Boin
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Government publishes legal document on MSC Zoe disaster at LAPP's insistence
The cargo lost at sea as a result of the MSC Zoe disaster should be considered environmental pollution and information about it should be made public. This was the case made by Leiden Law School’s Leiden Advocacy Project on Plastic (LAPP). Following their investigation, the government has finally decided…
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Jennifer SchenseFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gül Aktürk HauserFaculty of Archaeology
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Henk KeldermanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Report: The Optimisation of the Use of Satellite Information in the Humanitarian Domain: Legal and Space-Related Developments
In February 2023, the International Institute of Air and Space Law and the Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum for International Humanitarian Law organised a seminar on the topic of 'The optimisation of the use of satellite information in the humanitarian domain – Legal and space-related developments' at Leiden…
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Dominoes of disaster: what happens when industrial sites are not protected?
Industrial sites are built for safety, but are they prepared for security breaches? As concerns grow over threats to national security, these sites are a target. The Securdomino project built a tool to prevent malicious attacks and rethinks how we define security.
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‘We want to experiment with AI in a responsible and proactive way’
At the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), a great deal of work is being done to develop a future proof approach to artificial intelligence. With the FGGAi programme and the introduction of the new tool LUChat, the faculty is taking an important step towards safe, responsible and innovative…
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Symposium on Cyber Security in Humanitarian Organizations in The Netherlands
Symposium
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Responsible Removals: Holistic Portfolio Design, Systems Integration, and Equitable Allocation of Carbon Dioxide Removal
PhD defence
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Bianca Angelien ClaveriaFaculty of Humanities
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Helen DuffyFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Horst FischerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hilde van MeegdenburgFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Robert HeinschFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Daniëlla Dam-de JongFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Isabella BrunnerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Mamadou HébiéFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jens IversonFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Chiara AnfusoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Henning LahmannFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rebekka GrossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Firefighting robots must be developed responsibly
As robotics advances in the field of emergency response, firefighting robots – or 'firebots' – offer promising improvements in safety and operational efficiency. However, to ensure these technologies truly benefit society, non-technological factors must be considered from the outset.
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Dissent into Disaster: Reciprocity as Protest in Karachi, Pakistan
CADS Research Seminar
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Alex Geert CastermansFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Huub de GrootFaculty of Science
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Anneke Monsma -
Beyond prayers: a student-led humanitarian mission to Kyiv
Film screening & panel discussion
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Annemarie SamuelsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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'Rutte cannot fully hide behind indirect responsibility'
On Friday 15 January, the Dutch ‘Rutte III’ government resigned following the scathing report on the childcare benefits scandal. What are the political consequences?