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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
OUA-S1-EXT-2024-2024
OUA-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Knowledge of the various structures, processes, actors and norms of security-related policymaking.

2.

Have a broad critical understanding of the role of evidence and theories of change in security policy

3.

The ability to identify and analyse the political dynamics and risks of security policy approaches in different issue areas.

4.

Detailed knowledge of number of traditional and new security policy challenges, such as poverty, armed violence, environmental and climate change, international tensions and refugeeism.

5.

Ability to undertake a self-directed policy project.

6.

Clearly and persuasively communicate concepts, problems and arguments in relation to security politics, policy and practice.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:
  1. Introduction: security and policy in theory and practice
  2. Security Challenges: identifying risk and threat
  3. Whose security? Competing interests and policy making
  4. Security Governance 
  5.  Securitisation and Theories of Change
  6. Developing evidence-based security policy
  7. The security-development nexus in a time of poly-crisis 
  8. Case study : Water Security 
  9. Case study: Refugees, rights and displacement
  10. Case study: Conflict Prevention and Post-conflict Peacemaking 
  11. Case study: Climate security and resource conflict 
  12. Conclusion: Security Policy challenges in practice