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Preparing Leaders

Welcome

The Institute for Human Security was formally established at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in 2000.

Traditional approaches to social change across borders, organized in four separate professional universes --humanitarianism, development, human rights, and conflict resolution-- are overly compartmentalized. As a result, progress made in one field without attention to the other fields is often sub-optimal and unsustainable. It is now widely recognized that we need insights and strategies that work across these four fields.

The Institute for Human Security promotes cutting edge-research and education about the overlaps between humanitarianism, development, human rights, and conflict resolution. The Institute is resolutely interdisciplinary. All of its activities make a fundamental choice in favor of crossing academic and professional barriers.

The Institute seeks to bridge these gaps by making research on human security operationally relevant through education, conferences, and fellowships for practitioners. It collaborates closely with the Alan Shawn Feinstein International Famine Center at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR) at Fletcher.