{"id":24,"date":"2018-01-17T07:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-hrh\/about\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:10:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/491\/2012\/02\/dupre.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This concentration provides students an opportunity to engage in the interdisciplinary study of human rights and humanitarianism. The objectives of the concentration are to cultivate in students: (a) a familiarity with major developments in the history of human rights and humanitarianism; (b) an understanding of the institutional frameworks governing human rights and humanitarianism, including international law, international organizations, civil society movements, etc.; (c) an understanding of the theoretical and philosophical debates about the meanings of human rights and humanitarianism; (d) a capacity to understand and evaluate practical debates over the methods, motivations, and consequences of human rights and humanitarian action, including but not limited to questions of policy-making, fieldwork, and media and artistic representation; (e) a familiarity with a range of current and past global (including local, national, and international) human rights problems.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This concentration provides students an opportunity to engage in the interdisciplinary study of human rights and humanitarianism. The objectives of the concentration are to cultivate in students: (a) a familiarity with major developments in the history of human rights and humanitarianism; (b) an understanding of the institutional frameworks governing human rights and humanitarianism, including international [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}