Master in Human Rights and Peace
ITESO - Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Key Information
Campus location
Tlaquepaque, Mexico
Languages
Spanish
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
5 semesters
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
It trains specialists committed to the service of society; professionals in the permanent search for the truth; and to propose and develop, in dialogue with different social organizations, viable and pertinent solutions for the transformation of systems and institutions, to help build a more just and humane society.
This Program is for You
- Professional of all disciplines; public servant, member of civil and non-governmental organizations.
- Academic and researcher, consultant and adviser committed to society and its environment, interested in incorporating the perspectives of human rights and peace into work practice, to influence public decisions in favor of people who have less access to a life worthy.
- This program forms a professional community committed to human rights and the construction of peace, social actors who work in the promotion and defense of human rights, as well as those people who suffer the violation of their most fundamental rights and who they cannot satisfy their longing for a peaceful existence.
Graduation Profile
Graduates of this master's degree will be able to:
Critically and interdisciplinary analyze the social and political reality from the perspectives of human rights and peace. Design, implement and evaluate public policies from the perspective of human rights and peace. Interpret and apply international human rights law. Manage and peacefully transform conflicts.
When studying at ITESO
- You are part of the only postgraduate educational program focused on critical analysis and the practice of human rights and peace within the framework of strengthening democracy and the search for solutions to the high levels of physical, cultural and structural violence that our country currently suffers .
- You join an academic community made up of a prestigious faculty in professional practice, you are part of a university with a solid track record in promoting human rights, research, and academic production.
- You are studying a program with two lines of knowledge:
- Human rights.
- Empowerment and social conflict.
Curriculum
It consists of 12 subjects to be studied in 6 fundamental subjects, 2 electives and 4 Research, Development and Innovation.
By sharing an academic structure with the master's degrees in Constitutional Law and Legal Argumentation and with the one in Public Policy and Management, the elective subjects can be selected from those postgraduate courses.
Fundamental area:
- International Law of human rights
- Economy
- Constitutional Procedural Justice
- Public politics
- Theory of Peace and Conflict
- Human Rights Theory
elective area:
- Constitutional Law Clinic
- Political Communication
- International cooperation
- Social Movements and Human Rights
- Judicial Reform and Constitutional Rule of Law
Research, Development and Innovation Area (degree):
4 mandatory IDIs.
- Research, Development and Innovation I
- Research, Development and Innovation II
- Research, Development and Innovation III
- Research, Development and Innovation IV