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The Official Master’s degree in Human Rights, Peace and Sustainable Development proposes a detailed analysis on the most significant aspects of human rights and the current difficulties which peace, non-violence and sustainable human development are facing. With its triple approach towards academia, professional life and research, this Master’s delves deeper into the mutual interdependence and complementarity between these three challenges.
The Master’s offers complementary specialised training to people who originate from many diverse areas. In addition, the Master’s has a clear professional approach, granting specialised training oriented to multiple activity sectors: non-profit workers, public workers at regional and global organizations, transitional justice plaintiffs, national public service at all levels (local, autonomous, national), journalism professionals, company advisors in corporate social responsibility, etc. This degree is particularly suitable for volunteer training.
The Master’s shows a clear interest in science, which can contribute to the training of future researchers in the areas of human rights, peace and non-violence studies, and sustainable human development. These subjects currently constitute privileged fields of research with a growing interdisciplinary nature. Moreover, the Master’s is presented as a training part of an ulterior doctorate programme which can be accessed after obtaining the Master’s degree.
The DERGLO group forms the core of professors responsible for this doctorate programme, which goes all the way back to 1989 with the doctorate programme titled “Human rights, ethics and democracy”. This programme was succeeded by the one named “Human rights and contemporary problems” (programme with an international character in collaboration with the University of Palermo with excellence mention). Currently, professor Ballesteros is still directing the Doctorate Programme titled “Sustainability and Peace in the post-globalisation era”.
The formal creation of this group responds to the ever growing demand of specialised studies, work positions and practical orientation in the fields of human rights, peace and sustainable development. These must provide new courses of action and grant efficient mechanisms to protect and guarantee rights in various fields before the new challenges which society faces. Society is greatly aware of the need to explore the idea of human rights invisibility and interdependency further, as a response to the horrible calamities that haunt humanity (wars, underdevelopment and the indiscriminate and wild exploitation of natural resources).
Society demands to assume the perspective which prioritises the fulfilment and compliance of all rights for all human beings (and not only those in the first world). Furthermore, they want to emphasise not only economic growth but also truly human and sustainable development (focused on satisfying the basic needs of people). From that perspective, society can contribute to the creation of peace at a local level (countries destroyed by conflicts of all kinds) and a global level. In other words: peace, development and the effectiveness of rights can only be achieved if we stand united.
