Overview
With expert guidance, you’ll examine:
- the theoretical foundations of a range of approaches to conflict resolution
- peacemaking strategies – including negotiation, mediation, and intergroup dialogue
- innovations in peacebuilding – including truth-telling mechanisms, criminal tribunals, and reparations programmes.
Through a diverse range of case studies and contexts, you’ll take a comprehensive look at how conflict resolution plays out in the real world.
Careers in peacemaking and peacebuilding
You’ll leave this course with a deeper understanding of foundational theories, debates, and methodologies in the field of peace and conflict studies.
The knowledge and skills you’ll gain are particularly valuable for careers in:
- diplomacy
- international development
- conflict resolution
This could be within organisations like the United Nations, government agencies, or non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The course can also help you to progress within or towards roles in:
- mediation
- humanitarian assistance
- post-conflict reconstruction
- transitional justice, including truth commissions, criminal tribunals, and reparations programmes, as well as
- further academic study in peace and conflict studies
Programme Structure
You’ll study topics including:- Conflict, peace and justice: foundational concepts
- Principled negotiation: principles and challenges
- Traditional negotiation: hard bargaining
- Track II and third-party diplomacy
- Post-conflict amnesia: forgetting for peace
- The retributive approach: peace vs. justice, and the International Criminal Court (ICC)
- The restorative approach: reconciliation and dialogue
- New wars, reparations and distributive justice
- Local ownership and indigenous approaches
- Hybrid justice and modular peacebuilding
Key information
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Delivered
Campus Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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Tuition Fees
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Applies to youCitizens or residents1395 GBP / full≈ 1395 GBP / full
Living costs
Aberdeen
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.