Do you wish to understand the interaction between politics, law, and ethics in relation to international conflicts?
International conflicts have changed fundamentally over the past two decades. To understand them and to manage them requires new skills, which is why we offer this new Master programme.
In the old days the understanding and management of conflicts built on a fairly clear division of labor between specialists – between diplomats, soldiers, and aid experts. Conflicts could be understood according to distinct phases, moving from peace to tension over war and stabilisation to renewed peace. For each phase a particular set of specialists went to work. Today’s conflicts are multiple, complex, and volatile. They may last for more than a decade. Signs of progress are often deceptive, and outsiders involved in managing the conflict can experience war, development, and peace enforcement all in one day. It is what the military calls a three block war. To grasp it, and to help organisations prepare for it, experts must look beyond specialisations and be trained to understand and work with complex and conflict ridden environments.
This Master of Social Sciences in International Security and Law trains this kind of expert - experts who look to the international domain, who want to work with international issues, and who will want to help solve conflicts. The programme provides the experts with the skills to integrate a conflict’s political, juridical, and ethical dimensions in a comprehensive assessment that identifies the drivers of the conflict and what international organisations can do about them.
If you are not a student of the Master of Social Sciences in International Security and Law, but want to know more about the programme, how to get accepted, application etc. please check out the website for future students.
This study programme was accredited by ACE Denmark in 2010.
Please find the accreditation report (in Danish only) on ACE Denmark's homepage via this link
Accreditation report