PG Cert

International Human Rights Practice

Teaching & Learning

What you'll learn

Study the international human rights legal framework and the concepts and application of international humanitarian law while critically evaluating the associated achievements and limitations.
Explore key debates in international relations with a particular focus on the conceptualisation of human rights.
Study the international human rights legal framework and the concepts and application of international humanitarian law while critically evaluating the associated achievements and limitations.
Explore key debates in international relations with a particular focus on the conceptualisation of human rights.

What you'll learn

Investigate the practical strategies used to protect civilians from violence on a local, national and international level.
Consider how projects fit within organisations and how they can be developed, funded and managed.
Gain an understanding of contemporary security theory and challenges, and how this has evolved from a focus on the state to incorporate human security.
Explore the possibilities and challenges of taking gender seriously within both international relations and international political economy. You'll study key theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and practice debates surrounding the role of gender in international politics and global political economy.
This research-led module will develop your practical ability to make good public policy, with a particular focus on contemporary issues and long-term challenges. Working closely with a range of stakeholders from local and national government, the private and third sectors, and academia, you'll devise responses to a range of actual public policy challenges. You'll also deploy knowledge of theories of the policy process and of the reality of policy complexity to better understand the nature of contemporary public administration.
Gain an understanding of the social, historical and economic development of policing within national and international contexts.
Investigate the practical strategies used to protect civilians from violence on a local, national and international level.
Consider how projects fit within organisations and how they can be developed, funded and managed.
Gain an understanding of contemporary security theory and challenges, and how this has evolved from a focus on the state to incorporate human security.
Explore the possibilities and challenges of taking gender seriously within both international relations and international political economy. You'll study key theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and practice debates surrounding the role of gender in international politics and global political economy.
This research-led module will develop your practical ability to make good public policy, with a particular focus on contemporary issues and long-term challenges. Working closely with a range of stakeholders from local and national government, the private and third sectors, and academia, you'll devise responses to a range of actual public policy challenges. You'll also deploy knowledge of theories of the policy process and of the reality of policy complexity to better understand the nature of contemporary public administration.
Gain an understanding of the social, historical and economic development of policing within national and international contexts.