Feinstein International Center
Formation | 1997 |
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Type | Private Non-profit |
Focus | Knowledge production regarding marginalized populations in crises |
Location |
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Area served | Worldwide |
Product | Research, knowledge, and teaching |
Website | fic |
Formerly called | Feinstein International Famine Center |
The Feinstein International Center (FIC) is a research and teaching center based at
History and profile
The center was founded in 1997 as the Feinstein International Famine Center with an endowment from Alan Shawn Feinstein. The Center was originally set up as a tribute to the victims of the Irish famine (1840–1846) on its 150th anniversary. It was established as one of two centers of learning on famine, one at the Friedman School in Boston, US, a city that has a large Irish immigrant population, and one at Cork University in Ireland.[2] In 2006, the Center was renamed the Feinstein International Center (FIC).
Today, FIC has a research and teaching agenda that includes nutrition, food security, livelihoods, refugees, migration, urbanization, pastoralism, humanitarian systems and response, human rights, gender analysis, women's and children's right, protection,[3] war crimes, remedy and reparation. Faculty and staff conduct field-based research with conflict and crises affected populations, local and national leaders, humanitarian and development agencies, government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), International NGOs, and international organizations.
FIC faculty and staff are based around the world, including in Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York, London, UK, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda.
Research focus and publications
FIC faculty and researchers work with local and international partners to conduct and share research on a variety of factors in humanitarian contexts. Its current research focuses within the following themes:[4]
- The changing dimensions of poverty and vulnerability
- Conflict and its impact on civilians
- Food security and famine
- Nutrition
- People on the move: displacement, refugees, and urbanization
- Promoting evidence based practice in crisis and crisis response
- Resilient Livelihoods
FIC’s publications[5] are regularly made available to humanitarian actors through its own website and distribution network and a variety of partners, including ReliefWeb,[6] a UN website for humanitarian actors.
Teaching at Tufts
Feinstein faculty teach graduate level courses and advise Masters and Doctoral students primarily at two Tufts University schools:
- Field Research Methods
- Forced Migration
- Gender and Culture in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
- Gender and Human Security in Transitional States and Societies
- Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies
- International Humanitarian Response
FIC administers a Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) degree that is offered jointly by the
References
- ^ "Tufts – Feinstein International Center Mission Statement". fic.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ Shoham, Interview by Jeremy (3 January 2004). "Feinstein International Famine Centre on ENN". Field Exchange 21: 25. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ "ICRC Protection Policy". www.icrc.org. 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ "Research Themes: Tufts – Feinstein International Center". fic.tufts.edu. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
- ^ "Publications:Tufts – Feinstein International Center". fic.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-30.
- ^ Tufts University Feinstein International Center Publications | ReliefWeb. (2014). Retrieved January 31, 2014, from http://reliefweb.int/search/results?search=Tufts University