06/02/2023
The new year has started out strong with the 2022 cohort getting well through their exams in 'Tropical Ecosystem Management and Human Security' and 'Core Concepts Contextualised' during the January exam period. At the same time, the last students doing the project placement from the 2021 cohort are slowly returning to Denmark. 🇩🇰
This means that it is time for our last Postcard from Project Placement for the time being 🌍
We are ending it with a lovely postcard from Martine who spent her semester in Amman, Jordan. 🇯🇴 Enjoy the pictures and read along to learn about how she applied the theories and practices she acquired at the Human Security programme during her internship. 📚🔧
Postcard from Amman!☀️
Hi everyone, my name is Martine, and I am a third-semester student at the Human Security master’s program. Before entering the program, I did my bachelor’s in Arabic and Islamic studies at Aarhus University.
When choosing my master, it was important for me to find a place where I could learn new and relevant methods of research while also applying the knowledge and language skills I gained during my bachelor's degree. The same applied when I was looking for an internship for my third semester.
I ended up going to the beautiful city of Amman and had an exciting internship at Amman Center for Human Rights Studies (ACHRS). ACHRS is a non-governmental research and training center. It carries out research and advocacy in different areas of human rights: including freedom of speech, political participation, abolition of death penalty, refugee rights, and women’s rights. Besides that, they carry out youth leadership programmes, which I got to observe.
In the beginning, my role was mainly to write articles for the center’s website and do news monitoring on human rights-related issues in the MENA region. I first focused on issues regarding climate-induced forced migration, and later, youth inclusion and women’s rights and how the two interrelate. After a few months, I also worked with project design, fundraising, and coordination, where I could apply methods that I have learned in the Human Security programme directly.
Doing an internship was, in my experience, a great way of getting in touch with key informants, while also trying to work with the Human Security approach in a more practical way.
I am excited to use the interesting perspectives shared by both project leaders and the programme participants in my thesis and shed light on the different ways young men and women in Amman try to lift themselves and each other up professionally to make social change.
I highly recommend this master’s programme to anyone interested in human rights issues and developments! :)
