The rise of both political and climate instability across the world has led to global instability and conflict. Millions have been displaced by wars that have erupted across and within national borders. In the Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza, entire communities have been forced to flee their homes as a result of military conflict. The climate crisis is linked to, and will continue to intersect with, such conflict. Climate migration, precipitated by extreme weather events, highlights the need for transformative responses to humanitarian crises. These conflicts are increasingly posing new challenges for globally “just” approaches to humanitarian aid (Redfield, 2020), food insecurity (Wingfield, 2024), human rights and gender violence. In this course, students will collaborate with students from South Africa and Sweden, and engage with leading academics, civil society leaders and activists to learn more about new approaches to global justice through a humanitarian lens. Drawing from insights from a global learning project named the Global Classroom for Democracy Innovation, students will engage in a learning environment which is designed around international and intercultural engagement, to work on and co-design around "borderless" problems. Questions around the widespread undermining and erosion of democracy, and (inter)national responses to increasing humanitarian crises, will be at the center of student engagements, allowing them to think from particular localities while also working across local/national/planetary scales.