MSc International Conflict and Cooperation

Overview

Delivered by our experienced practitioners and leading scholars, our Masters degree in International Conflict and Cooperation prepares you to address a variety of challenges facing states and international organisations today. This course looks at the dynamics of international conflict and cooperation in light of major events such as the end of the Cold War, the 9/11 terror attacks, the Arab Spring and the COVID-19 crisis.

We take a thematic approach to conflict resolution and the role of international organisations in order to focus on conflict prevention and management in specific geographical areas. The course also explores the development and regulation of conflict in relation to factors like natural resources and migration.

Contemporary dilemmas surrounding the politics of climate change negotiations, civil war, human rights, international terrorism and humanitarian intervention provide some of the raw material for this MSc, which are studied in-depth over the course of the academic year. Students can exit at PG Cert and PG Dip awards.

Course objectives

This course will help you to develop the transferrable skills that employers are looking for. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• read and use texts and other source materials critically and empathetically
• appreciate the complexity and diversity of situations, events and mentalities
• recognise there are ways of testing statements, and that there are rules of evidence that require integrity and maturity
• reflect critically on the nature and theoretical underpinnings of the discipline
• organise an argument, be self-disciplined and be intellectually independent
• express yourself orally and in writing with coherence, clarity and fluency
• gather, organise and deploy evidence, data and information
• analyse and solve problems