Master of Arts in Human Rights & Genocide Studies
In recent years there has been a growing academic and practical interest in human rights and the separate but related issue of genocide, with an increasing concern with how genocide might be prevented or halted. The Master of Arts in Human Rights and Genocide Studies is concerned directly with these major issues of our time.
This modular 18 month postgraduate programme is taught at the following European institutions:
- Kingston University, UK
- University of Siena, Italy
- Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
- Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland
- Uppsala University, Sweden (internship/dissertation only)
It is a unique inter-disciplinary postgraduate degree programme and the first of its kind in Europe, involving a number of European institutions and offering a curriculum which is international in design, scope and content. At its heart lie a set of key questions, such as:
- how human rights and genocide have been conceptualised;
- where these ideas come from and how they have developed over time;
- where human rights are recognised and where they are violated;
- how human rights are guaranteed and protected;
- how human rights are challenged and undermined;
- how and why genocide occurs and
how it might be prevented and halted.
The programme also aims to provide students with practical professional skills needed to work in this field, to influence policy makers, and to build international communities and networks which can support human rights and help to prevent or halt genocide.
