This semester, 12 UVA students completed LPPL 5999: Leadership in Global Disaster and Conflict, an immersive course taught in conjunction with the UVA Humanitarian Collaborative. Sponsored by the Batten National Security Policy …

Jaida Hotmire (MPP ’26) is using her 2026 Early Career Humanitarian Collaborative Fellowship to translate her studies in human rights, international development, corporate social responsibility, and anti-trafficking policy into real-world change. Next …

On April 6, Omid Tofighian, an award-winning lecturer, researcher, translator, and community advocate whose work centers on critical border studies and new philosophies of resistance, will lead an open discussion. Hosted …

The Humanitarian Collaborative, in partnership with the University of Virginia’s Department of Economics and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, will co-host the Merrick Lecture featuring …

A new article published in Child & Youth Services explores how children living in container camps in Hatay, Türkiye, understand their daily lives following the February 2023 earthquakes. The study …

The Way We See It, a new exhibition on display on the second floor of UVA’s Shannon Library through January 2027, presents photographs taken by children living in container camps …

The Humanitarian Collaborative hosted a small-group coffee chat with Hanzade Germiyanoglu, Advisor in the Department of Humanitarian Response at Save the Children US and an international development professional with more …

The Humanitarian Collaborative co-hosted an online film screening and conversation featuring children in Colombia and Venezuela. When Children Speak, We Learn centered on a core premise: no decisions about children …

The Humanitarian Collaborative has launched Let’s Talk: Faith and Aid, a limited-series podcast examining the often underexplored role of faith in humanitarian action. At a moment of deep uncertainty …