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By exploring crisis situations humanitarian education enables students to recognise that people can overcome adversity. It develops their understanding of humanitarian issues, the skills that build resilience and encourages them to intervene to support others in crisis.
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Humanitarian education is an area of learning that concentrates on the desire or impulse to save lives, protect human dignity and reduce suffering. It particularly relates to offering assistance to others in an
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and is also used to refer to the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed for individuals and communities to help themselves. In the UK it may appear within curriculum subjects such as
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is central to understanding humanitarian education. It is based on the assumption that people have an innate desire to help others, so is centrally concerned with our shared
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mean that humanitarian education is sometimes confused with development education or global education, or simply teaching about the work of aid or development
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The way in which educators explore with students any topic, issue or event must be within the framework of the principles of
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and that individuals and groups are more confident, able and willing to help themselves and others when faced with a crisis.
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Tawil, Sobhi. Humanitarian Education and the British Red Cross programme for Schools. 2002
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and impartiality. It does not directly address causes and explicitly avoids exploring
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Humanitarian education is linked to, but distinct from, education about
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The goal of humanitarian education is that communities increase their
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International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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perspective. A desire to reduce suffering, save lives and maintain
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or other factors that might contribute to or create a crisis.
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