Aims of the MA Program in Peacebuilding
Die MA Program in Peacebuilding aims at connecting academic peace studies with the specific professional and personal challenges which peacebuilders face in a conflict environment. Students are enabled to perceive conflicts and their underlying causes as well as analyze and assess approaches, actors, fields of work, activities, criteria and principles of successful civilian conflict management in each phase of the conflict cycle – crisis prevention, crisis intervention, post-conflict peacebuilding.
The advanced MA Program in Peacebuilding is primarily application-oriented. It conveys practical skills in civilian conflict management and qualifies students to apply them in conflict regions. This requires the provision of analytical and practical qualifications as well as a specific peacebuilding approach which builds upon the different dimensions of the structural conditions and conflict causes and includes concrete questions concerning, planning, implementation and evaluation of peace missions.
Career Perspectives
There is a wide variety of career perspectives for graduates of the MA Program in Peacebuilding. Employment is possible in all areas where competences and skills in the field of peacebuilding are requested or desired.
This includes activities with national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as with governments, ministries, executive bodies which are planning, implementing and evaluating peace missions. There are also job prospects within the framework of planning, organization and preparation of peace missions or in the area of training of peacebuilders. Furthermore, there are employment possibilities in the fields of evaluation of peacebuilding missions or in research on specific topics and problems the area of peacebuilding faces. These evaluation and research activities can take place within national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as at research institutions, universities and university-level institutions. For more information about the careers of our students please click here.
