M.A. Program in Conflict Research, Management and Resolution

Studying Tracks

MA Studies take place in Non-research track (without thesis)

General Requirements for Both Tracks

Candidates who are accepted will be required to take supplementary courses to their BA studies within the Faculty during their first year of MA studies. To continue their studies, they must obtain a grade average of at least 80 in the supplementary courses. The supplementary courses will be personally chosen for each student by the Program's counselor, out of the following list of courses:

• Introduction to Statistics
• Introduction to Sociology or Introduction to Psychology 
• Introduction to International Relations or Introduction to Political Science

Duration of the Study Program:

In light of the uniqueness of the Program and the limited number of spots, students who are accepted will take the full Program and will complete their studies within two years  

Candidates to the Faculty of Social Sciences Graduate Degree must present the following documents:

Original transcript stamped by the academic institution including a Final Average, as well as the original certificate of eligibility and signed degree.

Those who have not yet graduated must send (from the educational institution):

1. An official original transcript that includes all grades received to date.
2. The most updated average
3. An undergraduate debt balance.

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Program Requirements:

The Program will accept about twenty graduate students for the first year of MA studies, and an effort will be made to accept graduate students from different departments. Applications may be submitted by students whose final grade average is at least 85.

Faculty Requirements:

If your English level classification is not "exemption", it is necessary to present an approval of "exemption in a university level" based on Psychometric exam/ Amir test / Amiram test as a condition of acceptance to the Master program.

Overseas students must take a test to determine the required level of Hebrew for master's degree studies at the Faculty.

Non Research Track Academic structure (36 credits)

Mandatory Courses (17-21 credits)

A. Theoretical courses (8 credits) - four courses to choose from six options

B. Training courses - tools and techniques (5-8 credits) - two courses to choose from four options

C. Research and methodological courses (2-3 credits) - required to learn in the first-year, one of three options

D. Interdisciplinary Departmental Seminar (2 credits) - duty of active participation for two years

Elective Courses (7-11 credits)

The student chooses elective courses in one of the two following clusters:

• Political, international, legal, media cluster
• psychological, social, cultural, gender, cinematic cluster

Two Seminar Papers (8 credits)

The student will write two seminar papers, one in one of the theoretical courses of the program, the other in any of the program courses which enables submitting a seminar paper.  For each paper, the student will get four credits in addition to the course credits.

Eligibility MA

A student is entitled to qualify only with the average of at least 70% in the courses

Final Score weighting

The average course grades 100%

As part of the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution Masters Studies program, we offer our students the opportunity to participate in an internship program.  Its aim is to enrich the participants' knowledge in management and resolution of conflicts, to increase their exposure to work in the social and public sector, and mainly to enable them to acquire proper skills in those fields.

The participation in the internship program involves a selection process, and only outstanding students are accepted. The Internship program is conducted for almost a decade in a framework of a larger project at the Hebrew University Faculty of Social Science. The Swiss Center is pioneering in applying this program to outstanding Masters students.

Mrs. Maya De Vries supervised our students during the Internship and wrote a summery about the experience:

This year we were able to integrate our students in excellent internships such as: The Knesset, the Israeli Central Statistics Bureau, the Knesset TV channel, The Strategic Dept. within the office of the President of the State of Israel, the Jerusalem Municipality and more.

As part of the internship, the students are obliged to participate in an academic course that is divided to class meetings and 'one-on-one' meetings. Alongside their practical work, the students are expected to hand in a final paper relating directly to their internship. Hence, throughout the course the students were exposed to various research methods, focusing on qualitative methods. In this manner, the students worked intensively, throughout the year finding a research question, choosing a proper method and creating the research outline.

At the end of the academic year the students presented their research outline in a format of a poster as part of a formal graduation ceremony.

You can find the full courses list of the Swiss Center for Conflict Research during the 2016-2017 academic year in the course schedule website.

In the course schedule, you can see the full details on the hours, credits, course type etc.

The 2017-2018 academic year (this list doesn’t include elective courses of other programs)