MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Areas of Specialization in
Conflict Related to Diversity, Cultural and Regional Issues, Aspects of
Structural or Institutional Conflict, and Practice and Application of Conflict
Analysis and Resolution to Various Situations. (Total of 41 semester credits:
18 credits are required Core courses, 12 credits are “Selectives” where
students can choose from a defined list.) There are 11 credits are Electives
where students may select appropriate graduate courses which expand their
education relevant to their areas of interest. There are 6 credits in a
Master’s Thesis and an Internship, or 6 credits in an Applied Practice and
Theory Program; Practice: An Internship or an Applied Practice and Theory
Program is required.
PhD in Conflict
Analysis and Resolution with Areas of Specialization in Cultural and
Regional Conflict, Structural Conflict, and Processes of Conflict (57 semester
credits for students with a Master’s degree: 24 credits in Core courses, 6
credits in Selective Courses, 15 credits in Elective courses, 2 credits in
Directed Reading courses, and up to 18 units in Proposal and Dissertation
courses; and 21 additional hours required for students entering without a
Master’s; Practice: Internship can be taken as an Elective)
Certificate in Conflict Resolution for Health Professionals.
This is a joint graduate certificate program offered
through the College of Nursing and Health Science and the Institute for
Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The Certificate in Conflict Resolution
program allows students to enrich their understanding of disputes that are
specific to the health care arena through a series of courses whose topics
include leadership, violence, health and conflict, organizational conflict,
and the links between conflict resolution theory and practice.
Certificate in
Conflict Analysis and Resolution Advanced Skills. Enhance your
constructive engagement in interpersonal, organizational, business, and
community contexts with expertise in New Practices: narrative mediation,
narrative facilitation, conflict coaching, conflict conferencing, dialogue
models. Learn Innovative Technologies: Positive Connotation, Appreciative
Inquiry, Reframing, Externalization, Circular Questions, Stakeholder Mapping,
and Social Network Analysis for Assessment and Evaluation. Apply your skills
for effective leadership in the workplace and beyond.
Conflict
Analysis and Resolution for Collaborative Leadership in Community Planning.
Strengthen your ability to constructively engage differences in community
contexts. Learn from successes bringing together diverse stakeholders to
build meaningful and lasting shared agreements. Apply these insights to
leadership in land use, development, or other community planning challenges,
while strengthening skills in analyzing stakeholders, assessing interests,
designing collaborative processes, and evaluating collaborative initiatives.
Conflict Analysis
and Resolution for Prevention, Reconstruction, and Stabilization Contexts.
Augment your development, defense, security, or humanitarian aid work
experience with the theories and skills of conflict analysis and resolution
for designing, implementing, and evaluating conflict-sensitive initiatives
internationally in areas of potential violence and post-conflict
reconstruction and stabilization contexts. Consider holistic cross-sectoral
approaches to long-term violence prevention and constructive conflict
resolution.
World Religions,
Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution.
Build your capability to reduce global violence and terrorism by incorporating
the best moral practices of religious communities into policy planning,
diplomacy, civil society building and democratization. Learn strategies to
elicit moderate moral religious expressions in conflict regions to strengthen
civil society and democracy. As a diplomat or religious or other leader,
create political, religious and social openings that allow international
political compromises and vital peace processes to flourish.
