Program at a Glance
Format
Full Time
Length
16 months (3 semesters)
Requirements
2 semesters at Brandeis
Core courses
Electives
M.A. field project
M.A. report
Location
The program takes place at Brandeis University, a suburban campus located 9 miles west of Boston.
اللغة العربية
New dual Master's Degree in Sustainable International Development and Coexistence and Conflict
This unique degree has been created especially for those people working or planning to work on development issues in situations in conflict. The first students will enroll in Fall 2008..
For further information, please email the Heller School.
Master of Arts in Coexistence and Conflict
"Preparing leaders to prevent, manage, and resolve intercommunal conflicts"
Welcome to the Brandeis Masters in Coexistence and Conflict. Our vision is to bring greater professional expertise and creative leadership to bear upon the challenges posed by intercommunal conflicts in today’s world. Since its inception in 2004, the program has become the preferred choice of mid-career professionals who need to understand how better to prevent, manage and resolve such conflicts.
Our students have come from many different institutions e.g. government and intergovernmental personnel, and from military, and financial institutions. We have also welcomed diplomats, journalists, lawyers, artists, and aid and development workers as well as people working in the donor and NGO worlds. At least 80% of our participants are international, and they have on average 8 years of experience working in their fields. To see how they value the program click here.
Our participants come because they, or their organizations, recognize that managing intercommunal conflict and violence is critical to national and international security in today’s world. Societies are becoming more diverse, many more countries are facing ethnic, religious, cultural, and social conflicts, and the globalization of such conflicts is also increasing. The Master’s Program in Coexistence and Conflict at Brandeis University is intended to meet these challenges
What will the Brandeis Master's Program give participants?
"This program has given me a new vision about how to see conflict, and how to understand it from different perspectives. If you understand these issues, you can change as a person and as a professional, you can become more effective - and hopefully become a leader in the field." Graduate, '07
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The Program provides students with a solid grounding in the theories of contemporary coexistence work. It also provides the professional skills to design and implement successful interventions that enable groups, nations and regions to live together more equitably, while respecting each other's diversity, and acknowledging each other's interdependence.
Who should consider the Brandeis Master's Program?
"If a person is seeking to get an MA in this field, this program perfectly ties theory to practice and does it in a way that is amenable to adult lives and needs." Graduate, '07
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The Brandeis Master’s Program in Coexistence and Conflict is designed for early and mid-career professionals who work, or aspire to work, within governments, international agencies, or business. It also helps professionals working in related fields such as security and diplomacy, aid and development, human rights, education, and the promotion of democracy and civil society. Please click here to view current student profiles.
The Program takes 16 months to complete. It involves an academic year in residence at Brandeis (September – May), followed by a three month field placement and completion of a master’s paper by December of the second year.
The Brandeis Master's Program in Coexistence and Conflict:
- Provides a solid grounding in contemporary and developing theories on the causes of intercommunal conflicts, from the local to the global.
- Emphasizes the skills needed to design strategic interventions that prevent, mitigate, or resolve intercommunal conflicts and violence.
- Focuses on mainstreaming coexistence and conflict knowledge and skills within governments, international, and inter-governmental organizations.
- Includes a master’s field project in an area of conflict, or with an organization involved in coexistence and conflict interventions.
- Teaches dialogue and mediation skills designed for work in intercommunal conflict situations.
- Introduces students to evaluation skills to help them to assess the success of conflict interventions.
- Helps students develop partnership skills in delivering coexistence work through democracy, security, legislative, mediative, human rights, political, equity, and development work.
- Offers a wide choice of electives, including language courses that are relevant to participants’ career interests.
 For further assistance with the application process and information specific to your country, please contact your local U.S. Embassy/U.S. Consulate/Office of Public Affairs for referral to an overseas educational advising center near you, or consult the list available on the U.S. Department of State’s website at http://educationusa.state.gov/centers.htm.
Program Director
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The Program is under the leadership of Professor Mari Fitzduff, Ph.D., who is from Northern Ireland and brings more than 20 years of international experience in conflict resolution policy and practice development to the program. Dr. Fitzduff was the first chief executive of the foremost conflict resolution agency in Northern Ireland. More recently, she served as director of UNU/INCORE, one of the world’s leading organizations for international research and consultancy work on coexistence and conflict matters around the world. |
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