Peace and Reconciliation Studies ScholarshipFor Master’s studies

Deadline: June 1 2006

The Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry Universityin England is offering eight scholarships to overseas (non-EuropeanUnion, or EU) students for their one-year Master’s programme in Peaceand Reconciliation Studies. The scholarship 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 highereducation 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 “enablestudents to develop the knowledge and skill base necessary to understandthe linkages between the different levels of destructive conflict in theworld, to understand the theory and practice of peace-making andpeace-building at the various levels, and to evaluate alternative modesof action and intervention in the attempt to transform violent anddestructive conflict along non-violent and constructive channels.”

Click here: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/peacestudy
for more information about the Centre for Peace and ReconciliationStudies and the MA programme.

To request information and application form, please contact AndrewRigby, 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