Masters Degrees (Humanitarian Intervention)

This ground-breaking MSc course offers online training for people working in humanitarian organisations, wherever they are in the world. Read more

Our world is experiencing humanitarian and environmental challenges of disturbing dimensions. Read more

The MA in International Security and Development introduces you to the major issues and critical debates within a profoundly serious field.  Security, violence and conflict are now central to international politics and development policy discourse. Read more

The MSc will provide you with advanced knowledge of the complex and specialised areas of peacebuilding, among it conflict analysis, conflict prevention, conflict resolution and conflict transformation, community driven reconstruction, peace processes within the context of contemporary conflicts and in the context of broader international (humanitarian) interventions. Read more

Security, violence and conflict are now central to international politics and development policy discourse. Understanding the modern world demands a full appreciation of conflict and violence. Read more

This programme is designed for those interested in study of the most challenging problems our world currently faces, such as international conflict and instability, terrorism, climate change, or rapid globalisation. Read more

This ESRC recognised research-training programme provides a broad and in-depth grounding in the study and methodologies of the most challenging problems our world currently faces, such as international conflict and instability, terrorism, climate change, or rapid globalisation. Read more

How do politics dictate war and peace? How has conflict shaped politics? What can we do about humanitarian intervention? This distance learning degree isn’t just about asking the critical questions – it’s about making critical progress. Read more

International organisations, humanitarian agencies, and states, all intervene in the sovereign affairs of nation-states. Read more

With conflicts becoming either increasingly drawn-out, asymmetric wars of attrition or normalise into states of no peace – no war, our understanding of conflict and conflict intervention is shifting. Read more

What are the dominant issues in humanitarian action? What is the so-called aid industry? And can professionalisation prevent dependence on aid? Find out in this programme. Read more

The MA in International Relations delivers stimulating teaching about the international system. It covers critical issues, crucial actors and alternative methods of analysis and interpretation. Read more