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Displaying 151 universities offering MA programmes in Peace from all over the globe.
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Poland
Collegium Civitas
Strategic Peace and Conflict Studies (MA). Collegium Civitas in Warsaw runs Strategic Peace and Conflict Studies, a two-year, full-time, English-taught master's (120 ECTS) developed in partnership with UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. It was the first programme of its kind in Poland and one of very few in Europe.
Portugal
University of Coimbra
Peace, Security and Development Studies: the objectives of this Master’s programme include: providing advanced training in the field of International Relations, focusing on issues of peace and security, development and humanitarianism; responding to the demands of a qualification that combines the deepening of conceptual and theoretical knowledge in these areas with the creation of advanced methodological and conceptual skills in these same areas of study. This approach aims at capitalising on the fields of scientific expertise of the teaching staff in IR as well as at benefiting from the interdisciplinary intellectual and academic environment at the School of Economics. A training of excellence in IR is a priority of this cycle of studies, building capacity and skills in various areas, promoting students’ insertion in the labour market, and stimulating their internationalisation through mobility programmes at the European level and beyond.
Qatar
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
MA in Conflict Management and Humanitarian Action. The Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies runs a two-year, FIBAA-accredited master's in conflict management and humanitarian action. The curriculum covers conflict resolution and transformation, humanitarianism, negotiation, mediation, state-building and reconstruction, with case studies, simulations, fieldwork and a work placement.
Rwanda
University of Rwanda
MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation. The Centre for Conflict Management at the University of Rwanda, created in 1999 in the aftermath of the genocide against the Tutsi, offers an MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation. The programme trains students in conflict analysis, reconciliation, transitional justice and peacebuilding, drawing directly on Rwanda's post-genocide experience of justice, memory and social reconstruction, and is run in collaboration with international partners including the University of Gothenburg. The centre also runs a PhD programme in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies in partnership with the University of Gothenburg's School of Global Studies.
Serbia
University of Belgrade
Peace, Security and Development: The MA in Peace, Security and Development aims to educate and train students to use the conceptual apparatus of peace, security, and development studies, to acquaint them with basic theoretical approaches and debates in these three areas, as well as to train them for further research in these and related fields of social sciences and humanities. The program also aims to educate and train students for professional work in scientific research institutions and other organizations and institutions that deal with peace, security, and development issues. It strives to improve and deepen theoretical and practical knowledge that students acquired in undergraduate academic studies, primarily international studies, but also to develop their ability to solve more complex problems using theoretical knowledge and methodological approaches learned during the program. Upon completion of the program, students will master the fundamental knowledge of peace, security, and development studies, as well as skills for professional engagement in various organizations. The acquired knowledge will enable students to perform multiple scientific research tasks at faculties, institutes, and similar institutions, as well as analytical work in state administration bodies, national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations. In addition, this study program serves as a preparation for doctoral studies in the field of peace, security, and development (or related disciplines) in the country, the region and beyond.
Sierra Leone
University of Sierra Leone
Masters in Conflict Resolution and Human Rights. The Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, offers a two-year master's in conflict resolution and human rights. Rooted in the experience of Sierra Leone's civil war and its aftermath, the department also teaches peace and conflict studies at undergraduate level and supervises doctoral research in the field.
South Africa
Durban University of Technology
Master of Management Sciences (Peace Studies). The International Centre of Nonviolence (ICON) at Durban University of Technology runs one of Africa's largest peacebuilding postgraduate programmes. Its research-based master's in management sciences, specialising in peace studies, centres on action research and a thesis of around 40,000 words, and leads on to a doctorate in the same field.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies: Students will examine and analyse root causes of real African conflicts and explore solutions to resolve, prevent and transform these. Students will be equipped to understand the trajectories and trends of national (gender-based violence, xenophobia, ethnoreligious violence), regional (Mozambique, Lesotho, Zimbabwe) and global conflicts (Middle East, Asia). Students will be exposed to conflict analysis, mediation, negotiation skills and their application to Africa’s conflict landscape. Students will take modules such as: Recovering from Conflict, Theory and Practice on Non-violence, African Approaches to Conflict Transformation and Restorative Justice.
South Korea
Kyung Hee University
Graduate Institute of Peace Studies. The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University, established in 1984 and located in a dedicated campus outside Seoul, offers English-taught master's education in peace studies grounded in the university's long commitment to a culture of peace, recognised by the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education in 1993. The small residential programme combines international relations, peace theory and civilisational studies with scholarship support for its students.
South Sudan
University of Juba
Master in Peace and Development. The Institute of Peace, Development and Security Studies at the University of Juba, formerly the Centre for Peace and Development Studies, offers postgraduate diplomas, master's degrees and a PhD in peace and development studies. Its two-year master's programmes include peace and development, humanitarian and conflict studies, and security and strategic studies, by coursework and dissertation or by research.