Doctor of Philosophy in International Conflict Management

When you enroll in the Kennesaw State University (KSU) Ph.D. in International Conflict Management degree, you’ll join students from around the world.  You’ll find the learning environment is a dynamic yet intimate educational environment.

This Ph.D. program is a full-time, interdisciplinary, in-residence program intended to help meet the global demand for scholar-practitioners who address the complex array of international conflict and security challenges through their empirically-based development and implementation of research, recommendations, and solutions.

As a Ph.D. student, you’ll join an elite group in advanced training for International Conflict Management. The Conflict Management degree program offers several key elements unavailable in other doctoral programs in this field.

Program Overview

The Ph.D. in International Conflict Management (INCM) at Kennesaw State University (KSU) is one of only a few such programs available in the world. Ph.D. students accepted into the program receive broad interdisciplinary training and opportunities that draw on an array of disciplines, perspectives, and approaches to the study of peace and conflict. Graduates will be able to address problems from a sophisticated knowledge base of substantive and methodological approaches. The core prepares them in key global competencies including: (1) intercultural dynamics of global conflict, (2) economic conflict analysis, (3) international relations, and (4) conflict management and peacebuilding theory. Methodological preparation is rigorous, including required and optional courses in research design, quantitative and qualitative methods, and international program and policy analysis and evaluation.

Program Outcomes

The International Conflict Management Ph.D. offers several key and unique benefits to our students:

1. Explain the theoretical and historical foundations of conflict management, international relations, economics of conflict, and intercultural dynamics of conflict
2. Evaluate and apply concepts and theories of international conflict management to real world practice
3. Reflect intercultural competency through critically engaging with a diverse range of scholars and theoretical frameworks
4. Assess and conduct research using quantitative and qualitative methods Independently design, conduct, and defend research contributing to the field of international conflict management
5. Independently design, conduct, and defend research contributing to the field of international conflict management

Time Limit to Completion

Within seven years, you must meet all Ph.D. degree requirements, beginning with your initial registration in graduate-level classes upon admission to the degree program. An extension may be granted in exceptional circumstances. Only those courses you earned credit for within seven years of admission will be counted toward your degree.

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