MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights & Justice

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Details can be found at structure

Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and option modules) and a 60 credit dissertation.

1. 45 credits from List A (core module)
2. Choose at least 3 x 15 credit modules from List B.*

3. Choose a further 2 x 15 credit units from either list B or C
4. 60 credit Dissertation on some aspect of Conflict, Rights & Justice (core).

*Other modules in the School may be available with permission of the programme convenor.

Please note that not all option modules may run every year.

The course ‘Conflict, Rights and Justice’ is the core modules for the degree. Students must complete 3 x Core modules, worth a total 45 credits.

• Conflict, rights and justice
• Violence, justice and the politics of memory
• International Politics of Human Rights

You must choose at least 3 x 15 credit modules, worth a total of 45 points, from the following list.

• Foreign Policy Analysis
• International migration and diaspora politics
• The Politics of Global Security
• Comparative International Political Thought
• Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East
• Political violence
• Security
• Islamic/Democratic Political Thought
• Approaches to Comparative Political Thought
• The Law & Politics of State Violence: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
• The Indian Ocean in World Politics
• Asian Security

This would be focused on some aspect of Conflict, Rights & Justice.

• International theory
• International theory
• Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Social Research
• Islam and politics
• Japan Unravelled
• Political society in the Middle East
• State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus
• State and transformation in the Middle East
• Political Thought on the Just Rebellion
• Anthropology of Human Rights (PG)
• Anthropology of Development
• Anthropology of Globalisation (PG)
• Issues in the Anthropology of Gender
• Therapy and Culture
• African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World
• Representing Conflict: A Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Approach
• Neoliberalism, Democracy and Global Development
• The Law of Armed Conflict
• Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals
• Human Rights and Islamic Law
• Theoretical Approaches to International Journalisms
• Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Global Media and Post-National Communication
• Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law
• The Holocaust in Theology, Literature and Art

60 credit Dissertation

• Dissertation in Political Studies

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

• MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights & Justice Programme Specification 2016 (pdf; 69kb)

Important notice regarding changes to programmes and modules