Aim & Content:Children are disproportionately affected by armed conflict in a variety of ways, and with long-lasting effects. Children affected by armed conflict can efficiently be protected, their basic needs met, and their rights safeguarded with support of well-prepared experts. This specialisation course equips participants with targeted knowledge and skills to become effectively involved in monitoring, advisory, and executive functions to protect children in crisis areas. It aims to foster discussion and exchange of best practices and lessons learnt between professionals of various organisational backgrounds.

Topics covered include: Assessment and monitoring of children’s rights; strategies for prevention of child rights violations; strategies to reduce the impact of armed conflict on children (child recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration); child rights based and child-participatory approaches; involvement of children in rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts; instruments and actors for the implementation of strategies for child protection, monitoring and rehabilitation.

Target Group: Professionals from a wide range of relevant backgrounds, who want to become experts for child protection, monitoring, and rehabilitation in crisis areas (e.g. child protection officers) or plan to intensively include child protection and rights of the child in future activities in their respective areas of competence.

Basic knowledge of international human rights and humanitarian law is required.