Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation
Master of Arts
| Enrolment | Programme enrolment |
| Start | enrolment every semester possible |
| Duration / ECTS-Credits | 4 semesters (FT/PT*) / 120 ECTS-Credits |
| Cost** | 6,900.- EUR (exclusiv ÖH-fee - currently 20.20 EUR per semester) |
| Degree | Master of Arts in Peace Studies |
| ISCED-F | 0312 Political Sciences and Civics |
| Study Code | UC 992 856 |
| More Information | Website |
Director of the Continuing Education Programme
Prof.h.c. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Dietrich
Administration
Lena-Maria Drummer, MAUnit for Peace and Conflict Studies
Innrain 52f
6020 Innsbruck
Tel.: +43 699 12 29 08 93
peacestudies@uibk.ac.at
Dates
Location:
Tiroler Bildungsinstitut - Grillhof
Grillhofweg 100
6080 Igls-Vill
Schedule and dates are found at the website of the programme.
Contents
The continuing education programme is held in English and covers four key aspects:
- Introduction to the theory and practice of development cooperation, peace research and conflict transformation
- Aspects of direct violence: transformation of conflicts and questions of safety in and between societies
- Aspects of structural violence: questions of development and conflict prevention
- Aspects of cultural violence: human rights, plurality and “culture(s) of peace”
Target Group
Persons, who prepare for a profession in the fields of development politics, human rights, safety and civil defence and professions dealing with national or international conflicts.
Admission Requirements
- Persons, who can proof that they have passed a subject-relevant Bachelor study programme at a university or a college of higher education or a comparable study programme at an approved post-secondary education institution at home or abroad can be admitted to the continuing education programme.
- In any case, the Bachelor study programmes of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Innsbruck are eligible study programmes.
*Full-Time/Part-Time
**payment and cancellation conditions
Information on the individual courses of the continuing education programmes is available in the course catalogue.
Participation in a continuing education programme requires admission as admission as non-degree students.