Security Sector Management – (M.Sc.)

Suitable for those who work in any security or development related organisation - as a policy maker or practitioner - or wish to enhance knowledge and skills based on a related first degree.

Takes you on to the international organisational job market (United Nations, European Union, African Union, etc), a wide range of non-governmental organisations and policy think tank positions, diplomatic and international development policy and in-country posts; practitioner positions with post-conflict reconstruction agencies and security-related departments in the private sector and within large management consultancy organisations (PWC, KPMG, etc).

You will be taught by Cranfield University academic staff at the Defence Academy - College of Management and Technology who understand the problems of translating the theory into practice.

The objectives of this programme are for participants to be able to develop and implement strategic security sector plans and analyse, communicate and evaluate the broader implications for related areas within state and regional frameworks.

By the end of the MSc, students should be able to:

* Display knowledge of the players, processes and structures across a state’s wider security sector
* Understand the skill sets required to implement the effective governance of national security policy and resources
* Fully comprehend the way in which national security requirements and development priorities are managed in a mutually supportive way
* Develop transferable skills in areas such as strategic management, project management and risk management
* Critically analyse and evaluate strategic national security policy, donor policy and development agenda
* Produce coherent and rigorous security sector strategies, programme plans, change management schemes and performance assessment criteria
* Implement and control national security plans within identified constraints
* Plan and implement more sophisticated approaches to good practice and lesson learning
* Understand and analyse the security sector and the international legal and political environments in which it operates.