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Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA
Kingston University

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Department of Social Sciences


About this course

This postgraduate degree is anchored in a set of values that challenge the murderous thinking behind genocide; which always involves the designation of others who are eliminated because they do not, supposedly, belong in a given society.

Modules

Core modules: dissertation (human rights and genocide); internship in a human rights organisation; optional modules: case studies in international conflict; defining and protecting human rights; foundations and frameworks of human rights; human rights actors and activities; human rights and political violence; managing and resolving international conflict; research skills and methods in social sciences; strategies for achieving human rights; the politics of mass murder; civil and political rights (viadrina); conflict prevention and management (viadrina); criminal law and enforcement; economic, social and cultural rights; individual criminal responsibility (viadrina); legal and institutional foundations (viadrina); methods of research and project work (viadrina); modern nationalism (the engine of mass murder?) (viadrina); negotiating peace (dealing with the challenges of peace processes); prohibition of discrimination (viadrina); rights of minorities and peoples (viadrina); rights of refugees and migrants (viadrina); the Jewish holocaust and other nazi-led killing programmes (a comparative study) (viadrina); crimes of war and genocide (Siena); humanitarian intervention and its context (Siena); peacekeeping and conflict resolution (Siena); the universality of human rights (Siena); holocaust and genocide (collegium civitas); holocaust memory and impact; human rights organisations (collegium civitas); international negotiations and responsibility to protect (collegium civitas); legal problems of human rights (collegium civitas); techniques of negotiation; truth and reconciliation.

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Starting How long Days you attend Details Where Class info Price

Sep

18 months

Full time No application date provided Kingston Upon Thames,
KT1 2EE
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£7310 per year

*More info: £7310 per year

Course type

Taught

Awarding body

Kingston University

Subject areas

War Studies, Legal Rights (Law)


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