The MSc in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding is an innovative, interdisciplinary cutting-edge programme designed to provide students with crucial opportunities to explore the political, social, economic, legal, and psychological dimensions shaping the transformation of different forms of violent conflict. The programme arrives at a critical juncture, when global manifestations of conflict are both escalating and becoming more diverse, at the same time as the current conflict transformation and peacebuilding paradigm is under review.

The MSc in Conflict, Territories, and Identities focuses on the interplay between (inter)national conflicts and the identities and borders in the minds of people. Learn to look beyond the violent conflict itself by also paying attention to practices of post-conflict reconstruction.

Who gains from situations of conflict? In what ways can violence affect development? What are the challenges to post-conflict reconstruction? This pioneering MSc Violence, Conflict and Development programme explores the complex links between violent conflict and development, both historically and today.

Our MSc International Conflict and Cooperation gives you the chance to address a variety of challenges facing states and international organisations today. Interact with policymakers and potential employers on a study trip to Geneva.

MSc Humanitarianism, Aid & Conflict unique programme provides students with analytical training and an in-depth understanding of the challenges of contemporary humanitarian aid, its interaction with conflict and development and new directions in the field. Throughout the programme, students will develop a wide-ranging knowledge of the field and the tools to critically engage with the pressing questions of power dynamics, politics, accountability, intersectionality, security and access that are facing humanitarian organisations, academics and local communities today.

The overall purpose of the master programme Global Peace, Justice and Well-Being is that students shall acquire in-depth knowledge within the interdisciplinary field of global peace, justice and well-being. Many of the present as well as future challenges. Peace, justice and well-being are mutually linked together and interdependent. Without peace it is difficult to build justice and well-being and vice versa, without justice and well-being it is difficult to maintain the peace.

The EUCLID online master in mediation and conflict resolution is also unique for blending personal level psychology with high-level issues (diplomacy, inter-religious dialogue) and practical skills (negotiation), the purpose is to offer a comprehensive coverage of this broad topic.

Our Global Leadership and Peacebuilding MSc examines the mutually reinforcing links between global leadership, peace and society, especially in developing nations. Through this blended learning programme, which offers both face-to-face and online modules and which supports wholly online study where applicable, you will learn to understand the huge significance of global leadership processes and outcomes in peacebuilding efforts in the developing world and the impacts they have on society.

The EUCLID online master in Terrorism Studies and Deradicalization is unique for addressing terrorism from a radicalization and deradicalization perspective.

American University's Master of Science in Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security is an online, 33-credit degree for law enforcement and intelligence professionals who wish to specialize in homeland security. The program builds knowledge and skills in counter-terrorism, national security, law and policy, cybersecurity, and theories of political violence.

MSc Humanitarian Action (Online) is an online degree that engages critically with the history, politics and practice of humanitarian action. Students take the core module, followed by a selection of elective modules and a final dissertation. How and where is humanitarian aid given, and how does it interact with the political and military complexities of emergency contexts? How have critiques of humanitarian aid, including from recipients, impacted humanitarian action? How does South-to-South assistance in emergencies change, challenge or complement the concepts and practice of humanitarianism?

The Master’s degree program in Human Security is based on the UN’s Human Security approach and focuses on conflict and environmental issues. During recent years and partly due to the work of the UN, the concept of ‘human security’ has become a rallying point for understanding and working with processes of (human) development in unstable environments.

The Master of Science in Terrorism & Homeland Security Policy at AU’s School of Public Affairs will train you to tackle the problems of terrorism and other threats that endanger the security of the United States. You’ll approach security issues informed by social science, with attention to the perspectives of criminology and criminal justice. Our program emphasizes the development of strategic, policy-based security solutions at the federal, state, and local levels of government.

Crises arising from terrorism, war, violence, cyber threats, and natural disasters dominate world news and make Crisis and Security Management a heavily politicised and hotly debated topic at the top of the national and global societal and governance agenda.

This Advanced Master’s programme analyses governance problems and possible responses, with due consideration to the specific historical pathways of individual countries, as well as the interaction between dynamics at the national/state level and the local/society level. It also addresses the impact of global developments.