Master of Arts - Global Conflict and Cooperation

The MA in Global Conflict and Cooperation explores the theory and practice of how individuals, states, and political institutions manage conflict, and develop cooperation in international relations.

The MA in Global Conflict and Cooperation will appeal to those interested in combining academic approaches to conflict and cooperation with an understanding of the practice of international diplomacy and confidence-building, decision-making, and conflict mitigation and resolution in world politics.

The degree will enable students to:

• explore a range of contemporary issues related to managing both conflict and cooperation in different parts of the world; • to examine in depth themes such as decision-making in international organisations, the role of individual foreign policy actors and changing structural contexts; and • to respond to the need to develop cooperative responses to address major global challenges, as well as to analyse a selection of inter-state and intrastate conflicts.

The course will encourage students to explore a wide variety of themes from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

The MA degree has one more distinctive feature: it is offered by the Institute for Conflict, Cooperation and Security (ICCS), a world-leading interdisciplinary research centre, in partnership with the Department of Political Science and International Studies. The ICCS has strong connections to high level practitioner networks, which offer summer internship opportunities. The MA students can also become members of the four ICCS Research Working Groups: Trust in World Politics; Political Settlements; International Political Psychology; International Drone Policy.