 This is a brand new degree that we're launching online to bring together a community of scholars who are not able to commit to full-time study or move to London. We have designed this program to be attractive and relevant to a wide spectrum of professional backgrounds, humanitarian policymakers and practitioners, analysts and war journalists. I was in charge of humanitarian affairs at the United Nations for five years and I saw more and more conflict in the world. I saw huge movements of people in terms of the flow of refugees and migrants. I saw the impact of natural disasters and we were really stretched thinking about the policy implications of humanitarian action. So this is very much about preparing for our future. Each emergency has political and historical specificities and the international context of conflict, climate change and disease is constantly evolving. The MSc engages both with the particularities of individual cases and takes a step back from the intensity of each situation to compare and contrast across cases. By zooming in and zooming out in this way it's possible to analyze the mechanisms and processes of humanitarian emergencies. Core module in the program engages with humanitarian principles to interrogate the legal, institutional and ethical frameworks that have become part of international norms and conventions. It then works through the architecture of humanitarian action by analyzing the multilateral, bilateral and international non-governmental organizations. SOAS is one of the few universities around the world that not only specializes at a regional level in terms of our expertise in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It's the way we join that up. We are truly global. We have an expertise here that no one else has. If you have any questions about the course, please do feel free to contact me, Zoey Marriage, on ZM2 at soas.ac.uk. Thank you.