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Peace Studies Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Peace Studies via distance learning
This program examines the fundamental questions in peace studies from various perspectives. What do we mean by peace? How do we understand violence, conflict, security, development, sustainability, democracy, equality and justice? What human values are involved in peaceful and conflicting cultures? What are the practical means of building peaceful relationships? What are the key challenges and the peaceful alternatives facing humanity now and in the future? There is no single response to these questions mainly because of the wide range of human peace- and conflict experience, and the complexity of interactions from the local to the global.
Academic Supervisor : Carmen Ramirez Hurtado
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Peace Studies Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Peace Studies.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Conflict Resolution - Diplomacy - Geopolitics & Geostrategy - International Business - International Law - International Relations - International Studies - International Trade - Maritime Port Management - Military Strategy - Protocol & Etiquette - Translation & Interpretation .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Peace Studies Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Peace Studies via distance learning = 45 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Peace Studies Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Peace Studies via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Diplomacy.
Master's Degree - Peace Studies Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Peace Studies via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Diplomacy. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Peace Studies Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Peace Studies via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Diplomacy. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Peace Studies Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
The UN & International Organizations
This course discusses the origins, the functions, the role, and the significance of international organizations such as the United Nations. It provides examples of various kinds of international organizations, their aims, principles, membership, and decision-making processes.
Academic Supervisor: Earle Taylor
Cross Cultural Social Perspectives
This course studies the similarities and differences of cultures. It teaches students the skills of communication, negotiation, and managing cultural differences. It provides a cross cultural social perspective to deal effectively with individuals from varied cultures in different situations.
Academic Supervisor: Francis Wambua Mulwa
Comparative Human Rights Law
This course explores and compares different backgrounds in the key legal instruments, the institutions, and the provisions related to human rights. It studies the controversies in the concept of human rights and the problems involved in asserting universal moral standards across political and cultural divides.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison
Nonprofit Global Organizations - NGOs
This course examines the role and importance of nonprofit non-governmental or global organizations in the development and support of social needs. It also considers the nature and the resources of the nonprofit sector; the structure, operation, and governance of nonprofit organizations; and the taxation, governmental, and institutional relations of public charities, private foundations, and mutual benefit organizations.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Third World & Developing Nations
This course surveys the dominant theories of economic development and the meaning of "development vs. growth." It discusses the major characteristics of developing nations and the key constraints and variables of economic and political development: population growth, unemployment, urbanization, migration, agricultural and rural development, education, industrialization, and trade.
Academic Supervisor: Francis Wambua Mulwa
Terrorism
This course takes an in-depth analysis into domestic and international terrorism with focus on current terrorist threats and issues. It examines causes, criminal procedures, and the legal and constitutional issues in reference to terrorism investigation, prevention, apprehension. and prosecution of terrorists.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Conflict Resolution
This course of conflict resolution examines the process in which two or more parties work towards a solution to a problem or dispute. The ability to successfully resolve conflict depends on your ability to identify and address the underlying problem, control the emotions involved and any precipitated behavior. Some conflict resolution strategies that people and institutions use to handle disputes include avoiding, defeating, compromising, accommodating, and collaborating.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Protection of Human Rights
This course analyzes the problem of implementing human rights law within political systems and reconciling supervision by international bodies with national sovereignty. It examines specific types of rights and their protection (e.g., right to free speech, privacy, and free association, etc...). It presents the methods used of advocating human rights at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
Academic Supervisor: Philipose Daniel
International Relations
This course considers all the international relations theories, classical and modern, including realism, idealism, behaviorism, globalism, Marxist and imperialist theories, in addition to the people who have elaborated these ideas and the context in which they did it. It critiques and compares theories, and stresses on the relevance of theory in international relations.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Diplomatic Relations
On the more practical side, this course considers the establishment and conduct of diplomatic relations and permanent missions, protocol and procedure, diplomatic language and types of diplomatic correspondence, diplomatic and consular privileges, immunities, consular functions, and conference diplomacy.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
World Politics & Globalization
This course discusses the great power relations in the 20th century. Several critical issues of world equilibrium are analyzed, as well as notions of national power, the paths to power, balance of power, and collective security. It presents the instruments of international peace and order. It examines the following topics in international politics: massive destruction arms control, wars of intervention, the environment, global interest versus self-determination, and peace management.
Academic Supervisor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
International Law
This course examines the nature and sources of international law, its institutions, and its forms of dispute resolution. It covers the problems of private and governmental practices affected by international relations; the law applicable to questions of recognition and non-recognition of governments and nations; interpretation of treaties and other international agreements; jurisdiction of nations; effect of peace and war; formation, operation, and function of various international agreements as well as matters of international claims.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison
Ethics & Social Responsibility
This course examines the interrelationship between government, business, and society with the view that leaders must constantly adapt to the realities of the economic, political, and social environments. Leaders must consider their social responsibility in resolving issues that include values, ethics, and beliefs underlying its decisions.
Academic Supervisor: Djaber Nacer Eddine
International Crime & Security
This course examines the concept of security as well as the various elements that, combined, allow modern nation states to feel secure. It analyzes threats vulnerabilities and the anarchy that threatens global security and world peace equilibrium. It discusses whether the United Nations is capable of effective action in crisis as well as the work in counter-proliferation against weapons of mass destruction, international humanitarian law, and international drug policy.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
Peace Studies
This course examines a set of fundamental questions raised in peace studies and provides different perspectives to them. What do we mean by peace? How do we consider violence, conflict, security, development, sustainability, democracy, equality, and justice? What human values relate to cultures of peace and conflict? Which are the practical means to build peaceful relationships? What are the key challenges and the peaceful alternatives facing humanity now and then? The wide range of human peace and conflict experiences and the complexity of interactions at both the local and the global levels make it very difficult to have single answers to these questions.
Academic Supervisor: Carmen Ramirez Hurtado
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Peace Studies Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
AIPAZ - Asociación Española de Investigación para la Paz
ALADI - Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración
BHA - British Humanist Association
BILA - International Law & Arbitration Association
CAPCS - Canadian Association of Peace and Conflict Studies
CAPS - Center for Conflict and Peace Studies
CDHCP - Centro de Derechos Humanos y Cultura de Paz
CECP - Association Construire Ensemble une Culture de Paix
CEMPROC - Fundación Estudio, Mediación, Paz y Resolución de Conflictos
CPR - International Institute For Conflict Prevention and Resolution
FCP - Fundación Cultura de Paz
FLAMASC - Federación Latinoamericana de Medios Alternativos de Solución de Conflictos
IAPCS - International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies
ICERM - International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation
IFPSD - International Federation for Peace and Sustainable Development
IPB - International Peace Bureau
IPRA - International Peace Research Association
IRFWP - Inter Religious Federation for World Peace
MEDIAMOS - Asociación de Mediadores para la Resolución de Conflictos
MP - Mouvement de la Paix
OEI - Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos
OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe
PACTUM - Asociación Internacional de Mediación
PJSA - Peace and Justice Studies Association
SPSP - Society for Peace Studies and Practice
WPC - World Peace Council
WPSO - Women and Peace Studies Organization
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Admission requirements - Peace Studies
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Peace Studies Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Peace Studies Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Peace Studies Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
