Conflict Resolution Skills
Georgetown’s M.A. in Conflict Resolution features skills-based training.
Georgetown Conflict Resolution students have opportunities to deepen their expertise through 1-credit skills courses. Skills courses are generally 2-day intensive workshops that focus on a particular set of skills or provide an accelerated immersion in a specialized subject. These courses are taught by top practitioners in their fields. Skills courses feature simulation and practice.
To start, the CR degree includes a core-course sequence of mediation, applied negotiations, and facilitation, each of which offers skills-based training in addition to grounding in theory. Experienced dialogue practitioners lead these courses.
Students are also required to take 3 skills electives. Skills electives offered by the program since 2023 include:
- Advanced Negotiation
- Atrocity Early Warning & Prevention
- Being a Humanitarian
- Conflict Coaching
- Counter-crisis Communications
- Facilitation II
- Humanitarian and Conflict Assessment Skills
- Mediation II
- Peace Design Methodology, Local Peacebuilding
- Restorative Justice
- Routes to Middle East Peace
- Social Impact Career Accelerator