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<blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">This programme is interdisciplinary, involving history, political science, and international relations, as well as sociology and social psychology, risk studies, and even critical approaches. Depending upon the pathway chosen and the mix of options within each pathway, the focus of the degree will vary from a strong emphasis on security and counterterrorism issues through to a critical social science approach and analysis of societal response and adaptation.</blockquote> | <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">This programme is interdisciplinary, involving history, political science, and international relations, as well as sociology and social psychology, risk studies, and even critical approaches. Depending upon the pathway chosen and the mix of options within each pathway, the focus of the degree will vary from a strong emphasis on security and counterterrorism issues through to a critical social science approach and analysis of societal response and adaptation.</blockquote> | ||
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| + | [[King's College]] also houses a terrorism research institute called the [[International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence]]. The Centre claims expertise on 'radicalisation' and is a collaboration between King's College, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, the [[Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya]] in Israel and the [[Regional Center on Conflict Prevention]] in Jordan. It is headed by the [[King's College London|King's College]] terrorism expert [[Peter Neumann]]. | ||
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Revision as of 16:15, 2 August 2010
Details of courses and modules
King's Department of War Studies teaches a Masters in Terrorism, Security & Society. The Course description on Prospects.ac.uk states:
This programme is interdisciplinary, involving history, political science, and international relations, as well as sociology and social psychology, risk studies, and even critical approaches. Depending upon the pathway chosen and the mix of options within each pathway, the focus of the degree will vary from a strong emphasis on security and counterterrorism issues through to a critical social science approach and analysis of societal response and adaptation.
King's College also houses a terrorism research institute called the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. The Centre claims expertise on 'radicalisation' and is a collaboration between King's College, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel and the Regional Center on Conflict Prevention in Jordan. It is headed by the King's College terrorism expert Peter Neumann.
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