Human Rights and Conflict Management – (M.A.)

The MA. in Human Rights and Conflict Management is an interdisciplinary post-graduate program, which focuses on the linkages between Human Rights and Conflict Management. The understanding of such linkages is integrated with a range of related fields and issues dealt with during the didactic period (international and human rights law, humanitarian law, development, geopolitics, philosophy of human rights, peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, conflict management etc.). Along academic skills, solid grounding of the development of related practical expertise is provided during both, the didactic and internship period: monitoring and report writing, project design and management etc.

The Master program is organized in collaboration with the International Research Laboratory on Conflict, Development & Global Politics of the Scuola Sant'Anna and the International Training Programme for Conflict Management (ITPCM), a post-graduate programme of the Scuola within the Masters and Training Programmes Division. The Master program is organized under the patronage of United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC).

The Master of Arts in Human Rights and Conflict Management brings together a core teaching staff and leading specialists from around the world. Lecturers and trainers are chosen among academics, diplomats, international organizations officers and NGOs activists, thus offering a wealth of both academic and field expertise.

Main educational goals are as follows:

- To train high-rank professionals who will work in design, management and monitoring positions

- To train professionals who will combine, in a dynamic, non-sequential way, critical knowledge and technical-operational skills as the key components of an extremely professional service in complex situations.

- To train professionals who are aware of the mutual connections between the protection of human rights and conflict management, and who possess a sound juridical and methodological background and practical-operational skills in such areas.

- To train professionals who, in the design and management of actions and in decision-making processes, will keep into account the historical, geopolitical, economic dimensions as well as the "gender" component and the complexity of intercultural and international relations.

Internship and career path

Graduate and post-graduate students, who wish to complete and integrate an academic track with a one-year, field-oriented and professionalizing program, are encouraged to participate. The Master of Arts in Human Rights and Conflict Management is committed to provide its students with valuable work experiences and employment contacts at a world-wide level. Annual Recruitment is organized with human resource managers of NGOs and the UN Volunteers Programme. A regular information service regarding recruitment opportunities within International Organisations and NGOs is also offered. Special career coaching sessions focusing on presentation skills will be provided.

Our students and alumni are offered the following services:

- Career counselling:

- Specific training initiatives

- Student interaction with International Organizations/ NGO's

- Job Search Assistance:

- Regular Information Service

Our last career placement survey shows that 75% of the ex-students from the MAHRCM are currently employed in human rights related positions at reputable national and international organizations, namely, UN agencies, IOM, OSCE etc.