Seminars
The following list contains an excerpt of our courses offered in previous semesters.
Compulsory Module 1: Theories and Approaches of Peace and Conflict Studies
- Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
Compulsory Module 2: Concepts of Securing Peace
- Securing Peace after Political Violence
Compulsory Module 3: Conflict Analysis and Theories of Conflict Management
- Understanding Conflict - conflict theories and tools for conflict analysis
- International Conflict Management
Compulsory Module 4: Applied Conflict Management
- Applied Conflict Management and Mediation
Compulsory Module 5: Methods of Peace and Conflict Studies
- Methods of Peace and Conflict Studies
- Tutorial to Methods of Peace and Conflict Studies
Optional Compulsory Module 6: Regional and Global Order
- State and Non-State Actors in Violent Conflict
- Protracted Social Conflicts in the Arab Region:
- Politischer Islam im Nahen Osten und in Asien
- Defense Policy
- Critical Security Studies
- International Organizations
- The Political System of the EU
- Dynamics of EU Governance and Integration
- Comparing and Connecting Humanitarian Action and Development Assistance
Optional Compulsory Module 7: Sustainable Development and Resource Management
- Resource Conflicts
- Global Sustainability Governance
- The Disaster Conflict Nexus (Field research in Nepal)
- Klimawandel und Konflikte
- Scientific Knowlege Transfer in Natural Resources Policy
- Projekte in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Filmanalyse und Nachhaltigkeit im Spielfilm
Optional Compulsory Module 8: Violence and Media
- Political Violence & Global Media
- Pop-Culture and Conflict
- Names as potential sources of conflict
- Critical Discourse Analysis as a Means of Studying Violence in the Media
- The Representation of Poverty and Precarity in the Media
- Peace and Film Utopias
- War in Film
- Visuelle Soziologie: Der Umgang mit Fremdkultur
- Journalists as Actors in War and Armed Conflict (in cooperation with the Hochschule Magdeburg Stendal)
Optional Compulsory Module 9: Global Justice
- Transitional Justice
- The role of humanitarian assistance in armed conflict dilemmas and opportunities
- Humanitarianism
- Public apologies and denials in the post-truth era
- Critical Approaches to Peacebuilding
- Menschenrechte und Nachhaltige Entwicklung
- Ethik der Migration
Compulsory Module 10: Master Thesis
- Kolloquium
- Master's Thesis
Extra Module
Internship / Language certificate