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Media, Peace and Conflict Studies

Overall Description of the Master Programme

This MA programme is designed to enable students coming from diverse cultures and academic backgrounds to develop skills to manage the many complex ways in which media interact with conflict, peace, and security. New thinking about the media coverage of conflict on international and local levels is also studied and students are challenged to think critically on issues such as objectivity and ethics in news reporting and news-gathering. In this programme students discuss the role of free, responsible media in preventing violent conflict and building peaceful societies.

Courses in this 41-credit MA programme are taught by UPEACE resident faculty and visiting professors who are prominent professionals and scholars in media affairs.

Students enrolling in this programme are expected to have some professional experience in media and related matters, because the MA provides them with limited practical journalism training.  The courses focus on the role(s) of media in the areas of peace, conflict, and security; therefore, though a first degree in any discipline is acceptable, a degree in the social sciences or humanities is an advantage, especially in communications or journalism-related areas. All the courses are taught in English, with which a high level of fluency is expected, but competence in a second language is also an advantage.

Students who have completed the MA in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies have gone on to work in communications, post-conflict assistance, and peacebuilding through international organizations such as the UN or national governments, as well as in the media and academia. They also have the skills to do media monitoring and content analysis with a media watchdog.

The required courses are:

• PCS 6000 Foundation Course in Peace and Conflict Studies (3 Credits) –  UPEACE Resident Faculty
• MPS 6010 The Role of the Media in Conflict-Prevention and Peace Building- Introduction (3 Credits) –  Prof. Daniela Ingruber
• MPS 6032 Research Methods: Peaces and Peace Research Methodologies (3 Credits) –  Prof. Norbert Koppensteiner
• MPS 6022 Ethical Media Production and Peace (3 Credits) – Prof. Daniela Ingruber and Prof. Alvaro Sierra
• EXPC 6005 Gender and Peace Studies (2 Credits) –  Prof. Jacobo Schifter
• ELECTIVES Participants can choose an elective course offered by the UPEACE Institute (3 Credits) –  UPEACE Resident Faculty and Visiting Faculty
• MPS 6031 The Role of the Media in the Rwandan Genocide and beyond (3 Credits) – Prof. Gerald Caplan and Prof. Adam Jones
• MPS 6040 Media, Terrorism and Insurgency (3 Credits) –  Prof.  Victoria Fontan
• MPS 6026 Advanced New Media in the Arab World (3 Credits) – Prof. Karim El Mantawi
• MPS 6028 Media, Peace and Reconciliation (2 Credits) –  Prof. Julia Hoffmann
• MPS 6014 Working in Conflict Areas – Field Training (3 Credits) –  Prof. Alvaro Sierra and Prof. Daniela Ingruber
• MPS 6033 Practicum (2 Credits) –  Prof. Daniela Ingruber
• MPS 7000 Graduation Project (8 Credits)

For complete course descriptions, course calendar, and information about the professors, please follow the link http://www.upeace.org/calendar/index.cfm

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