MASTER PROGRAMME

PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES

Compulsory Module 1: Theories and Approaches of Peace and Conflict Studies  

• Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies

Compulsory Module 2: Concepts of Securing Peace

• Securing Peace after Political Violence

Compulsory Module 3: Conflict Analysis and Theories of Conflict Management

• Understanding Conflict - Conflict Theories and Tools for Conflict Analysis
  
• International Conflict Management

Compulsory Module 4: Applied Peace and Conflict Studies

• Applied Conflict Management and Mediation

Compulsory Module 5: Methods of Peace and Conflict Studies

• Methods of Peace and Conflict Studies
• Tutorial to Methods of Peace and Conflict Studies

Optional Compulsory Module 6: Regional and Global Order

• State and Non-State Actors in Violent Conflict
• Protracted Social Conflicts in the MENA Region
• Politischer Islam im Nahen Osten und in Asien
• Defense Policy
• Critical Security Studies
• International Organizations
• The Political System of the EU
• Dynamics of EU Governance and Integration
• Comparing and Connecting Humanitarian Action and Development Assistance
• Terrorism and Political Violence

Optional Compulsory Module 7: Sustainability Conflicts and Governance of Natural Resources

• Resource Conflicts
• Global Sustainability Governance
• The Disaster Conflict Nexus (Field research in Nepal)
• Klimawandel und Konflikte
• Scientific Knowlege Transfer in Natural Resources Policy
• Projekte in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
• Filmanalyse und Nachhaltigkeit im Spielfilm

Optional Compulsory Module 8: Violence and Media

• Political Violence & Global Media
• Pop-Culture and Conflict
• Names as Potential Sources of Conflict
• Critical Discourse Analysis as a Means of Studying Violence in the Media  
• The Representation of Poverty and Precarity in the Media
• Peace and Film Utopias
• War in Film
• Visuelle Soziologie: Der Umgang mit Fremdkultur
• Journalists as Actors in War and Armed Conflict (in cooperation with the Hochschule Magdeburg Stendal)

Optional Compulsory Module 9: Global Justice

• Transitional Justice
• The Role of Humanitarian Assistance in Armed Conflict Dilemmas and Opportunities
• Humanitarianism
• Public Apologies and Denials in the Post-truth Era
• Critical Approaches to Peacebuilding
• Menschenrechte und Nachhaltige Entwicklung 
• Ethik der Migration

Optional Compulsory Module 10: International Module

• Achievements abroad as part of an exchange semester

Compulsory Module 11: Master Thesis

• Colloquium
• Master's Thesis 

Extra Module 

Practical Experience / Language Certificate