Aims of the MA Program in Peace and Conflict Studies
The MA Program in Peace and Conflict Studies aims at enhancing students’ competences and abilities in crisis prevention, conflict management and the promotion of peace. Students learn to analyze conflicts and their underlying causes, they develop practical skills in peaceful conflict transformation and develop and deepen their motivation to participate in the creation of a world society living in peace and justice.
The study program enhances students’ abilities to work in an academic-analytic manner. They gain deep knowledge about research approaches and methods used in social sciences, which are required for analysis in peace studies. Students are enabled to identify and classify problems and to develop strategies for their solution. The study program aims at furthering students’ interdisciplinary and practice-oriented research competence. This is supported by research projects and internships.
Career Perspectives
There is a wide variety of career perspectives for graduates of the MA Program in Peace and Conflict Studies. Employment is possible in all areas where competences and skills for conflict analysis, the development of strategies for conflict management and the promotion of peace are requested or desired.
This covers activities on a national and international level in politics and public administration, in social organizations as well as in the intermediate sector, e.g. with political parties, foundations and non-governmental organizations, in development cooperation and conflict management, in the areas of political consulting and mediation, in the media and education as well as in business. Furthermore, there are job opportunities at universities, university-level institutions and academic research institutions. For more information about the careers of our students please click here.
