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| Application Deadline: | Start in 1 September: April (non-EEA: April). | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 1,713 ≈ € 14,400 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Utrecht / Netherlands / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Utrecht University
The MA in Conflict Studies and Human Rights focuses on studying and engaging contemporary conflict and associated human rights issues.
During recent decades, the world has witnessed a multitude of armed conflicts that have affected people all over the globe. Societies have been disrupted, and economies severely affected. Armed conflicts continue to threaten the lives, livelihood, and future of millions of people. Current realities have forced the international community to address contemporary conflicts with a combination of military, humanitarian, political, economic, and development-related measures. So far, however, the record of conflict management has been mixed. Notwithstanding incidental successes, there have been several less successful attempts and even outright failures. This highlights the need to better understand the nature of contemporary conflict, and to ground this understanding in empirical research and theoretical explanations. Apart from a better understanding of conflict per se, there is also a lack of trained personnel in this rapidly growing professional field. It is against this backdrop that Utrecht University offers a one-year selective international Master's programme in Conflict Studies and Human Rights.
Contents
The MA in Conflict Studies and Human Rights is offered as a selective MA. Students receive training in the analysis of conflict and associated human rights abuses. The programme not only gives students a sound theoretical basis for analysing contemporary conflicts, but also provides them with the practical skills to draw connections between theory and practice and to assess policy interventions critically. This combination of theory and practice is highly desirable, as working in a conflict setting demands both analytical and applied competence.
This one-year MA programme comprises 60 credits (ECTS), and is divided into four 11-week periods. In the first and second periods, students take five compulsory courses: (1) Analysis of Contemporary Violent Conflict, (2) Conflict, Policies and Politics, (3) Research Design, Qualitative Methodology and Data Analysis (4) Human Rights, (5) Literature Review & Research Proposal Writing, and (6) Master Classes, in which scholars and practitioners will be invited to lecture on special topics.
In Period Two, students will take the core course on Literature Review & Research Proposal Writing, in which they will prepare a research proposal on the basis of which they will research and write their MA thesis. Students who elect to do an internship should also make final arrangements to secure an internship in the second period.
Students are given the freedom to select a programme trajectory of their choice from the available courses for the third and fourth periods of the MA programme. The specific combination of courses chosen by each student must first be approved by the Board of Examiners prior to the student embarking on that programme trajectory.
Students may only start this programme at the beginning of the academic year, in September. The year is divided in two semesters, running from September till June. A semester is divided into two course periods.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
Additional language requirements:
- Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: B1
- Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: C1
- IELTS overall band: 6.5
- IELTS writing: 6
- TOEFL paper based: 580
- TOEFL computer based: 237
- TOEFL internet based: 93
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 580 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 237 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 93 |
Accreditation
Accredited by: NVAO in: Netherlands
Funding details
Scholarships / Grants:
Utrecht University:
The Utrecht Excellence Scholarship offers a number of highly talented prospective, non-Dutch students the opportunity to pursue a degree in a selected number of fields at Utrecht University.
For additional information: Website
Nuffic:
The NFP is for mid-career professionals who are nationals of and working and living in one of the NFP countries. NFPs are fellowship programmes designed to promote capacity building within organizations in 60 developing countries by providing training and education to their mid-career staff members.
For additional information: Website
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