Program Overview
The Environment, Conflict and Security major explores the complex interactions between the environment, climate change, and security. It prepares students to analyze and address these challenges, aiming to develop practical interventions that enhance human safety and well-being. Graduates are equipped for careers in fields such as climate risk analysis, policymaking, and peacebuilding, addressing the growing demand for professionals in environmental and climate security.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Environment, Conflict and Security major is a unique program that focuses on analyzing and addressing some of the most pressing challenges of our modern world. It aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to understand the complex interrelationships between the environment, climate change, peace, conflict, insecurity, and the production of security. The program emphasizes the development of innovative and practical interventions that contribute to human safety and well-being in a rapidly changing world.
Objectives:
- Analyze the interrelationships between the environment, climate change, peace, conflict, insecurity, and the production of security.
- Identify and develop innovative and practical interventions that contribute to human safety and well-being.
- Critically analyze complex networks of interwoven social, environmental, economic, and political factors that contribute to insecurity, vulnerability, and harm.
Careers:
Upon graduation, students can pursue careers in a range of industries, including:
- Climate Risk Analyst
- Policy Maker
- Foreign Affairs Specialist
- Sustainability Consultant
- Development Worker
- Peacebuilder
- NGO or think tank expert working on environmental or security issues
Other:
- The program highlights the importance of addressing environmental and climate security issues, which are in high demand by governmental, non-governmental, and private sector organizations.
- Students will work with world-leading scholars in the field and develop substantive knowledge and insights regarding contemporary and emerging environmental and climate security challenges.
- The program covers topics such as:
- Environmental security
- Climate change
- Resource governance
- Peace and conflict
- Human security
- Political economy
- International relations
- Security policy