For the sixth successive year, the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Turin, Italy, offers its Masters in Peacekeeping Management.

The Masters leads to a post graduate qualification which equips students with the necessary skills and competences required to work in a diverse range of peacekeeping environments, crisis response situations reconstruction processes.

In particular, the Masters aims at providing students with professional skills in the following areas:

– Emergency Relief
– Humanitarian Assistance
– Refugee Assistance
– Human Rights
– Administrative Support and Logistics
– Election Operations and Monitoring
– Security
– Democratisation
– Capacity Building

The Masters is located in Palazzo Audisio, Maria Vittoria 35, Turin, Italy, where most academic activities take place. However, in order to further the learning process, there other activities at such locations such as the United Nations Campus, the Offices of the Red Cross, in addition to military training areas.

2. ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

Academic Teaching and Assessment takes the form of lectures, seminars, tutorials, group and individual sessions, practical exercises, distance learning, project work and role plays. All aimed at maximising the learning process and geared towards creating all-round professionals in Peacekeeping.

The methodology provides the following distinct characteristics:

– a balanced structure between both the theory and the practice of Peacekeeping