Master’s Programme Peace and Conflict Studies
You would like to research international peace work and conflict transformation in a scientific and practice-oriented way?
The Master's Programme Peace and Conflict Studies provides scholarly education in areas of international peacebuilding, conflict transformation, development policy, diplomacy, human rights, security, and disaster management.
It also provides action-oriented training in teamwork and development, diversity and identity, inclusion, capacity development, and intercultural communication.
Master of Arts
Duration/ECTS-Credits
4 semesters/120 ECTS-Credits
Mode of Study
Full-time
Language
English
Requirements
Relevant bachelor's degree/equivalent
and Language Certificates
Faculty
Faculty of Philosophy and History
Level of qualification
Master (Second Cycle)
ISCED-11: Level 7, EQF/NQF: Level 7
ISCED-F
0388 Inter-disciplinary programmes involving social sciences, journalism and information
Study Code
UC 066 643
FAQ
Graduates are particularly qualified to work in or lead multi- and transdisciplinary as well as culturally diverse teams and thus contribute to the solution-oriented handling of complex, global problems, including the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. They have acquired subject-specific and social skills that prepare them for leadership roles in international, national, regional, public and private institutions.
Graduates are able to deal with relevant problems that reflect the current state of knowledge in peace and conflict studies using scientific approaches, concepts and methods in a subject-specific, independent and practice-oriented manner.
Academic areas in which graduates acquire special knowledge and specialised knowledge as preparatory scientific training are the multi- and transdisciplinary contexts of peace and conflict studies research in an international and intersectional perspective.
The Master's programme provides academic education and also action-oriented training in teamwork and development, diversity and identity, inclusion, capacity development and intercultural communication, and promotes the use of digital media as complementary teaching and learning environments. The primary qualification of graduates lies in science-based prevention, mediation and transformation of violent relationships in mission-relevant areas.
Graduates possess substantial methodological competences in application-oriented areas of peace and conflict research, which have practical relevance for many professional fields beyond the boundaries of the discipline.
Typical professional fields of graduates are in the areas of international peace work, development policy, diplomacy, human rights, security and disaster management. They can, for example, work as scientific experts or mediators and as experts for private and public institutions.
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