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Global Leadership and Peacebuilding MSc

Please note: the course details including entry requirements and application deadlines apply to 2024 entry. Fees supplied apply to students entering King’s in 2025. Details for 2025 entry will be published shortly, please check back for more details in the coming weeks.

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Study the mutually reinforcing links between global leadership, peace and society with this transformative Global Leadership and Peacebuilding MSc at King’s College London. This programme focuses on the links between global leadership, peace and society with a focus on the developing world and global security. It offers both face-to-face and online modules and is enhanced by Leadership Weekend Workshops. It is the only MSc programme you can study in the UK where you will learn about Global Leadership in relation to peace and security, peacebuilding and societal development. In a dynamic global context with a wide array of diverse actors and stakeholders, global leaders require a unique set of skills and must be uniquely prepared. The Global Leadership and Peacebuilding programme seeks: (i) To deepen students' understanding of the different patterns of global leadership that have underlined social, political, economic and peace processes and outcomes in developing societies and across the world; (ii) To advance peacebuilding knowledge - conceptually and operationally - on the process of leadership and global problem-solving in developing societies and across the world; (iii) To develop in students deep analytical skills on responses to global challenges in the 21st century. We see our students as the next generation leaders who must be able to thrive across different socio-cultural contexts, while achieving success in organisations; we help them understand the complexity of global leadership in creating transformative change and building peace across the world.

Key benefits

  • Experience a range of learning experiences that combine online teaching with intensive face-to-face classroom experiences.
  • Become an expert in what leadership really means and the complexities that defy standard narratives.
  • Build upon and expand knowledge gained from your undergraduate or professional experiences, with a deliberate and clear overlap with global affairs, global economy, politics and economics (as well as other disciplines and sectors).
  • Transform your perspective and get the chance to translate your ideas into change-making opportunities within your own contexts.
  • Network with our global network of renowned academics, practitioners, activists and institutional partners that include universities, international organisations, and research and policy institutions from across the world.
  • Shape your own syllabus with a broad selection of optional modules across King's, with emphasis on the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy.
  • Scholarships available.

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Employability

Graduates of this Global Leadership and Peacebuilding MSc will be well-placed to take their skills and expertise to careers in NGOs, the public and private sectors, transnational corporations, and international organisations like the UN, EU, AU and beyond. Our Alumni also works in international business, teaching, or go on to further academic research in the field of global leadership and peacebuilding.

Curious to find out more? Access on-demand content including taster lectures and talks, and meet our current staff and students on our subject hub page.

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Employability

Graduates of this Global Leadership and Peacebuilding MSc will be well-placed to take their skills and expertise to careers in NGOs, the public and private sectors, transnational corporations, and international organisations like the UN, EU, AU and beyond. Our Alumni also works in international business, teaching, or go on to further academic research in the field of global leadership and peacebuilding.

Curious to find out more? Access on-demand content including taster lectures and talks, and meet our current staff and students on our subject hub page.

Application closing date guidance

We encourage you to apply as early as possible so that there is sufficient time for your application to be assessed. We may need to request further information from you during the application process.

King's College London is committed to the recruitment of students with the greatest academic ability and to maintain a diverse student population. In order to ensure a balanced international student population for our most competitive programmes, we have implemented the following deadlines:

For applicants who are currently residing in mainland China, the first application deadline is 10 January 2025 (23:59 UK time).

  • We highly encourage you to apply by this deadline due to high demand, but applications will continue to be reviewed thereafter until the final application deadline on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time).
  • If you reside in mainland China and apply for this programme after the above final deadline, your application may be automatically withdrawn and you will not be eligible for an application fee refund.

For all other applicants, our first application deadline is on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time). The final application deadlines for this programme are:

  • Overseas (international) fee status: 25 July 2025 (23:59 UK time)
  • Home fee status: 25 August 2025 (23:59 UK time)

After the first application deadline in March:

  • if the programme is not yet full, we will continue to accept applications until all available places are filled up to the final application deadlines above
  • if the programme becomes full before the final application deadlines stated above, we will close the programme to further applications

Please note, you will not be eligible for an application fee refund if you apply after the first application deadline, and we are unable to process further offers because places are filled and we close the course before the final application deadline.

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