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SUMMARY:CGHR Expert Practitioner Series: Working in Human Rights\, Peacebu
 ilding\, Humanitarian Aid and Development - Joanna Oyediran\, Open Society
  Initiative for Eastern Africa
DTSTART:20130123T170000Z
DTEND:20130123T190000Z
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CONTACT:Annette LaRocco
DESCRIPTION:_Talk will be followed by drinks reception in the Alison Richa
 rd Building._\n\nThe Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) has laun
 ched a practitioner seminar series\, partnering with expert speakers from 
 key organisations to delve into the gritty realities of what working in fi
 eld like human rights and international development really involves.\n\nTo
  help us with organisation\, please register your interest by emailing: aa
 l33@cam.ac.uk.\n\n*Joanna Oyediran* is a program manager for South Sudan a
 nd Sudan at the *Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA)*. OSIE
 A promotes citizens' participation in governance in Eastern Africa\, focus
 ing its support on local groups. Joanna previously worked as a Senior Huma
 n Rights Officer with the United Nations (UN)/African Union (AU) Hybrid Op
 eration in Darfur\, Sudan and with the UN Mission in Sudan. She has also w
 orked as a researcher for Amnesty International\, where she researched and
  wrote reports on human rights Israel\, the Occupied Palestinian Territori
 es and Iraq. She has also served as a Human Rights Officer for the UN Offi
 ce of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Gaza and as a consultant o
 n Darfur for the Ford Foundation. She is a member of the Bar of England an
 d Wales and holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Univer
 sity of Essex.\n\nThe sphere of work known variously as the ‘Third Secto
 r’\, ‘Development and Humanitarian Aid’ or simply – doing good in 
 tough places – is notoriously impenetrable\, and frustratingly difficult
  to navigate for the uninitiated. For somebody hoping to pursue a career w
 ithin this field\, the range of agencies and institutions\, initiatives an
 d centres is at the very least bewildering. Most areas intersect\, and org
 anisations work with an array of crosscutting issues and contexts. Yet wha
 t at first glance can appear to be a morass of very similar organisations 
 doing generally related things\, is in fact often sharply delineated\, wit
 h different sectors requiring surprisingly different competencies and oper
 ating under quite specific mandates. Working as an international human rig
 hts advocate would demand a different skill set and working environment fr
 om a project officer of a first phase emergency response – and both woul
 d have relatively different routes to entry. And a Master’s degree isn
 ’t always the best option. Cambridge University educates and trains many
  of the best young minds in the country and provides a critical insight in
 to the issues surrounding international politics\, security\, development 
 and humanitarianism. But with little clarity around what is involved in wo
 rking in this sector\, attempting to translate this theoretical knowledge 
 into a meaningful start to a career can be a minefield. With this in mind\
 , the CGHR series will allow students to listen and speak to a selection o
 f high-level experts working in these fields\, and address key issues and 
 questions. There will be four one-and-a-half hour seminars throughout Lent
  2013\, designed to equip students with an in-depth and critical look at w
 hat each area involves\; the type of work carried out\, contingent challen
 ges and essential competencies. The first hour will introduce the speaker\
 , chaired by a discussant from CGHR\, and will open up to the audience in 
 the second hour to provide the opportunity for students to engage with the
  topics discussed.
LOCATION:Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, Sidgwick Site\, 7 West Rd\, C
 B3 9DT
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