Conflict Resolution Skills
Georgetown’s M.A. in Conflict Resolution features skills-based training. Students graduate from the program with an education in the core skills of the field: mediation, negotiation, and facilitation.
The 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. These courses feature simulation and practice.
In addition, students may opt to earn certification in mediation through a partnership with San Francisco’s Community Boards.
The program teaches a facilitative style of mediation, in a tradition that is used in community-based mediation around the world. This approach scales internationally to inform diplomatic approaches to peacemaking and scales locally to inform and articulate with community based and restorative practices.
Skills Courses & Workshops
Georgetown Conflict Resolution students also have opportunities to learn relevant skills to practice through one-credit skills courses. Skills courses are generally weekend intensives that focus on a particular set of skills or provide a deep dive into a particular subject. These courses are taught by top practitioners in their fields.
Most of our skills courses are offered in the second half of our summer semester. Students return to campus, debrief from their summer field fellowship, and engage in skill-based training.
Here is a sample of skills courses and workshops recently offered:
- Advanced Facilitation
- Atrocity Early Warning and Prevention
- Being a Humanitarian
- Conflict Coaching
- Counter-crisis Communication
- Humanitarian and Conflict Assessment Skills
- Local Peacebuilding, Peace Design
- Mediation II
- Routes to Middle East Peace
- Social Impact Career Accelerator