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Displaying 151 universities offering MA programmes in Peace from all over the globe.
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Argentina
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Maestría en Gestión Participativa de Conflictos, Negociación, Mediación y Arbitraje. The Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires offers a master's in participatory conflict management. The curriculum covers conflict theory, negotiation, mediation and arbitration, including the handling of socio-environmental conflicts, and prepares professionals to design and lead collaborative processes for resolving disputes.
Universidad Nacional de Lanús
Maestría en Derechos Humanos. The Master's in Human Rights at the National University of Lanús, near Buenos Aires, is oriented towards public policy. Accredited with category A by Argentina's CONEAU, the two-year programme is taught in person or in hybrid format and trains professionals to design and assess state policies grounded in human rights.
Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM)
Maestría en Derechos Humanos y Democratización en América Latina y el Caribe. The National University of San Martín, through its International Centre for Political Studies (CIEP), runs an intensive, in-person international master's on human rights and democratisation with a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean. It is part of the Global Campus of Human Rights network of regional master's programmes.
Australia
The University of Queensland
Master of Peace and Conflict Studies. The Master of Peace and Conflict Studies (MPaCS) at UQ builds knowledge of the forces that generate contemporary conflict and the processes that contribute to conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding. Housed in the School of Political Science and International Studies, the programme draws on staff expertise in Indigenous politics, gender, ethics, justice, development and security, and offers coursework, fieldwork and research thesis options.
The University of Sydney
Master of Social Justice (Peace and Conflict Studies). The University of Sydney's long-running Master of Peace and Conflict Studies, once taught through the Centre and later Department of Peace and Conflict Studies founded in 1988, now continues as the Peace and Conflict Studies stream of the Master of Social Justice. The programme explores the interconnections between peace, conflict and justice, from reconciliation after mass violence to UN peacekeeping, and concludes with a dissertation or a social justice internship.
Austria
University of Innsbruck
Peace Studies: Established in 2001 the MA Program in Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck was strongly inspired by the UNESCO’s famous Manifesto 2000, which proposed to turn the new millennium into a new beginning, an opportunity to change, all together, the culture of war and violence into a culture of peace and non-violence. In addition to a first class academic education of the network in Peace Studies the Innsbruck program offers a special field training component designed to integrate academic excellence with the skills required in real conflict situations. Students have to be prepared for the adventure of a very holistic – physical, emotional and intellectual – exploration of themselves, their society and in more general terms of the whole world. Transrational peaces, as defined in this program, twist the division between subject and object; they go beyond the conventional limits of reason; they are not only rational but also relational; they start the search for peace with the deconstruction of the observer’s identity; they apply all the methods of conventional peace studies and go much further. Thereof derives a unique curriculum and the world’s most challenging academic training program for peace workers.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh University of Professionals
Master of Peace, Conflict and Human Rights Studies. The Department of Peace, Conflict and Human Rights in the Faculty of Security and Strategic Studies at Bangladesh University of Professionals in Dhaka opened its professional master's in 2018. The programme aims to build experts who can help resolve conflicts, build peace and promote human rights, and is open to graduates of any discipline.
Belgium
Ghent University
MSc Conflict and Development Studies. The English-taught Master of Science in Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University approaches violent conflict and development from a critical political economy and ethnographic perspective. Run by the Conflict Research Group, the one-year programme focuses on the local dynamics of conflict and intervention in the Global South, combining theoretical training with region-specific case studies and strong attention to fieldwork-based research.
Brazil
Programa San Tiago Dantas (UNESP/UNICAMP/PUC-SP)
Master's in International Relations (Peace, Defence and International Security). The San Tiago Dantas Graduate Programme in International Relations is run jointly by three São Paulo universities: UNESP, UNICAMP and PUC-SP. Created in 2003, it offers a master's and a doctorate with a concentration area in Peace, Defence and International Security, including a research line on peace studies, conflict resolution and crisis management.
Cambodia
Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia / CPCS
MA in Applied Conflict Transformation Studies. The Applied Conflict Transformation Studies (ACTS) MA, run by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Siem Reap and accredited by Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, has been designed specifically for Asian peace practitioners since 2004. The two-year part-time programme blends residential seminars and online modules around participants' ongoing peace work, concluding with an action research thesis rooted in their own practice.