Master Scholarships in Peace and Reconciliation Studies

UK. The Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University in England is offering eight scholarships to overseas (non-European Union, or EU) students for their one-year Master’s programme in Peace and Reconciliation Studies.

The scholarships will cover the tuition fees,valued at £8500, and recipients will be responsible for securing fundsfor subsistence and accommodation. It is meant to support the higher education of people from low income countries outside the EU; that is, applicants from the United States, Japan, and so on will not be eligible.

The aim of the MA in Peace and Reconciliation Studies is to “enable students to develop the knowledge and skill base necessary to understand the linkages between the different levels of destructive conflict in the world, to understand the theory and practice of peace-making and peace-building at the various levels, and to evaluate alternative modes of action and intervention in the attempt to transform violent and destructive conflict along non-violent and constructive channels.”

Application deadline: June 1 2006

To request information and application form, please contact Andrew Rigby, details below.

Contact:
Andrew Rigby
Professor of Peace Studies
Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies
Coventry University
Coventry, CV1 5FB
England
Tel: 024 7688 7862
a.rigby @ coventry.ac.uk

for further details please visit: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/peacestudy

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