When Professor Susan Perry’s annual Ecole de Guerre practicum was cancelled on short notice due to Covid-19, she needed a replacement opportunity – a meaningful remote experience with positive employment implications. The solution was a collaborative book project, bringing together students from multiple MAs, alongside some undergraduates, to produce a publication analyzing humanitarian responses to the unfolding pandemic.
Organized and operated by the French War College (Ecole de Guerre), this unique course offers you the chance to engage in a real-time, evolving simulation of military intervention. Several hundred École de Guerre officers spend three weeks preparing military intervention plans for a region in crisis (one that strongly resembles Western Europe).
The two sides put their plans into effect during a complex, week-long simulation run by computer. AUP students are assigned the role of international and NGO humanitarian aid workers on the ground in a conflict zone; they work with mentors from AUP, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the military to create a humanitarian aid plan that provides relief to the tens of thousands of civilians caught in the crossfires of war.
The course material is rigorous, challenging students to probe further and think bigger.
AUP definitely gave me rich life experiences.
I feel that the real-world experience that visiting professors bring to the classroom has an immense impact on students