Global Studies with a Special Emphasis on Peace and Security in Africa

to become familiar with different academic ways of looking at processes of globalisation

to learn about how concepts of globalisation operated in the past and today in various world regions, specifically in Africa, and how processes of globalisation interact with aspects of peace and security

to work with concepts from different analytical and theoretical perspectives

to systematically compare socio-political concepts and configurations as well as to investigate their mutual interactions

to gain insights into the production of social science knowledge and to relate knowledge production to concepts of globalisation and peace and security

to become aware of one's own rootedness in a specific discipline and academic culture