Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation
Master of Arts

Director of the Continuing Education Programme

 Prof.h.c. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Dietrich

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.

Contact and Information

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.