2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue

MA Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

Total credits: 180

Entry requirements:

Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Politics and International Studies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

Programme specification:

This interdisciplinary programme addresses the convergence of security and development issues, and its implications for analysing the reconstruction of war-affected societies. You will bridge the themes of conflict, liberal styles of governance and aid policy. You will analyse the ways in which security, development and humanitarian agents adapt to instability. You will also examine the significance of globalisation for the emergence of internal conflict, and for the development of trans-border economics and the political dynamics they may support. Furthermore, this programme gives you the opportunity to study regionally differentiated responses to conflict in, for example Africa, Asia and Latin America, and to discuss issues relating to humanitarian conditionality, containment and the role of international organisations and NGOs.

Our academics are widely recognised as leading experts in their fields. The research-led teaching you will benefit from is directly informed by the cutting-edge research that occurs within the field of Global Development, Peacebuilding and Conflict Studies. It directly addresses the increasing merger of development and security issues and the need to politically and socially reconstruct war-affected societies. The programme is of interest to students seeking employment in the expanding field of humanitarian intervention and social reconstruction as well as practitioners wishing to study relevant issues in more depth. Since the MA is interdisciplinary, it offers the opportunity to choose from a wide range of optional modules, drawing upon the department's rich diversity of approaches and experiences. Finally, the programme is both academically cutting-edge and policy relevant at a time when the nature of security is undergoing radical change.

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[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 30 credits from the following optional modules:

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