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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 Peace and Conflict Studies course at the University of Aberdeen 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
- 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
Duration
- Part-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
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PTE Academic 62
IELTS 6.5
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Credits
30 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
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
Duolingo English Test 120
TOEFL® IBT OR
90
PTE Academic 62
IELTS 6.5
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- 98 accuracy using real exam data
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Other requirements
General requirements
This course has no formal entry requirements. You decide if it’s suitable for you.
The course is delivered at Masters level. At this level, for this course, you’d usually have at least:
- a 2:2 UK honours degree (or equivalent), or
- relevant experience that supports this level of study.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents1390 GBP / full≈ 1390 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents1390 GBP / full≈ 1390 GBP / full
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