Conflict Transformation and Social Justice MA

This is a unique and innovative interdisciplinary programme taught through subject areas that include politics and international relations, law, anthropology, history, philosophy, sociology and the creative arts. Module choice within the programme will permit you to build your own personalised portfolio of knowledge and learning within the area of conflict transformation and social justice. You will be taught by academics and practitioners whose expertise in conflict transformation is both national and global and who offer research-led teaching on Europe, Asia, and South America. Queen's University offers the only global interdisciplinary MA programme on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice.

Hosted in the School of HAPP, this programme offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding both conflict transformation and social justice with access justice with access to The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute.

Conflict Transformation and Social Justice highlights

Student Experience

This programme offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding both conflict transformation and social justice. Students will meet experts from three different schools allowing for a broad range of geographical and conceptual/disciplinary insights.

Internationally Renowned Experts

Students are afforded the opportunity to meet both scholars and practitioners of conflict transformation and social justice through a range of modules, masterclasses and events that emphasise both the scholarly and applied elements of conflict transformation and social justice.

Student Experience

Location of Belfast: globally significant locale for conflict and peace research; access to institutions, community projects, case studies for students' own work. Students are encouraged to independently seek voluntary placements with local community groups,

Internationally Renowned Experts

You will be taught by staff with research profiles of international standing, and wide ranges of interest in conflict transformation and social justice both geographically and disciplinary. You will have the opportunity to attend events with visiting world-leading researchers, diplomats and/or practitioners.

World Class Facilities

Established in 2016, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice is an international centre of excellence at Queen’s University Belfast. The Institute fosters collaborations across a range of subject areas which allow the Faculty to address some of the key global challenges faced in seeking to achieve fairness, security, prosperity, social harmony and progress. A flagship for interdisciplinary research in areas of major societal challenge, the Mitchell Institute brings together excellent researchers from a wide range of disciplines to tackle some of the greatest global issues of our age.

Career Development

Our graduates find employment in NGOS, civil sector organisations, in policy research, law, advocacy, government, peace journalism, and conflict mediation settings.

Student Experience

Queen’s is ranked in the top 170 in the world for graduate prospects (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022).

Queen’s ranked 18 in the world for international outlook (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023).

16% of the Queen’s student population are international students (Queen’s Planning Office, 2023).

Politics and International Studies is ranked in the top 200 in the world by subject (QS World rankings 2024).