Human rights and multi-level governance
Class: LM-52 R -
Call for Applications (international students) - A.Y. 2025/26
- Call One: 2 November 2024 - 2 February 2025
The Master’s degree aims at developing a universal culture of human rights. With a strong policy and action-oriented approach, where research and lecturing activities reflect the transnational and transcultural dimensions of human rights studies, it provides professional knowledge and skills to promote and guarantee the respect of human rights.
Human rights law, multi-level governance of human sustainable development and security are conceptual paradigms of reference throughout the programme.
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Characteristics and Objectives:
The MA programme in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance is a contribution to developing a universal culture of human rights, as highlighted by UNESCO and the United Nations. Accordingly, it has a strong policy- and action-oriented approach. This master's degree is in full continuity with previous post-graduate programmes in human rights taught in Italian, which the University of Padua has been delivering since 1988.
The MA aims to develop ad-hoc knowledge and skills to promote and fulfill human rights within the broader context of legal and political processes and multi-level policies. Human rights law, multi-level governance framework, and the concepts of 'human development' and 'human security' are the paradigms of reference throughout the course.
The multi-level approach makes it possible to combine international trends analysis and an in-depth study of local policies. The course's research and lecturing activities reflect the transnational and transcultural dimensions of human rights studies.
Courses, conducted in English, are in seminar form and promote the active participation of students in class. Internships in qualified agencies and supervised research are encouraged. The programme includes special modules with the participation of practitioners from European and international organizations and academic institutions. The course encourages study experiences abroad financed under student mobility programmes and bilateral agreements. Up to five students of the course can pursue a double degree in International Relations by spending the second year of the Master's Degree at the Polish University of Wroclaw or at the French Lyon-Catholic University/Grenoble Alpes.
The course promotes extra-curricular education opportunities in cooperation with the Human Rights Centre of Padova University and other non-academic institutions and bodies. Such initiatives include a study trip to the United Nations and European Human Rights bodies.
The Programme assists students in finding suitable internship opportunities with qualified governmental and non-governmental institutions, in Italy and abroad.
Contacts and Information:
E-mail: MA.humanrights@unipd.it
Double degree opportunities
Students enrolled in this Master's degree course will be offered the opportunity to apply for two different double degree programmes: a double degree in Human Rights, International Relations and International Law with the Université Catholique de Lyon and with the Université Grenoble Alpes and a double degree in International Relations with the University of Wroclaw (Poland), in order to obtain, within two years, a double degree: the Master's degree in Human Rights and multi-level Governance (UNIPD) and the Master's degree awarded by the respective partner universities.
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