Post-Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, NZ

The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago is offering a Post Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts coursework programme in Peace and Conflict Studies from first semester 2010. This is in addition to the, Research Masters and Ph.D by thesis options. We are looking forward to a Foundation Class from all over the world .

The course is going through the final approval process with the New Zealand University Vice Chancellors Committee but prospective students are able to enrol online now by clicking on the links below .When the New Zealand Vice Chancellor's confirm this programme in the next few weeks your pre- enrollment will be activated automatically. We are doing this pre-enrollment in order to choose an excellent international and national group of students.

There are a number of University Scholarships available for students with strong grade point averages. The deadline for these are the 1st November 2009. We will also be offering a small number of Centre Scholarships which will be advertised later.

The electronic enrollment links are as follows

http://www.otago.ac.nz/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=papers-search&method=and&sort=title&matchesperpage=25&format=long&words=PEAC

If you have strong A or A- grades we would like to remind you that the deadline for scholarship applications is 1 November.

See http://www.otago.ac.nz/postgraduate/

We will be advertising some Centre Scholarships later in November.

Details regarding admissions and enrolments can be found on the following links:for domestic students: http://www.otago.ac.nz/study/for international students: http://www.otago.ac.nz/international

If you have any further questions about enrolment procedures or the programme please do not hesitate to contact Debbie Prysor, PA/Office Manager National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.

We will be providing an excellent course that will be of interest both to practitioners and those who wish to pursue an academic career.

More information on funding opportunities at the University of Otago is available at :
http://www.otago.ac.nz/international/postgraduate/scholarships.html