The Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies at UNCG is dedicated to providing high-quality, professional training in multiple conflict intervention and prevention skills such as mediation, negotiation, facilitation, restorative practices, violence prevention, and collaborative problem-solving. Students engage in community-based learning through a variety of courses to build practice, intervention, and research skills. The program focuses on pragmatic approaches to solving personal and social problems in a variety of social settings. Students are exposed to an array of techniques and strategies to achieve nonviolent solutions to conflict that arises in diverse family, organizational, and community environments.<br><br>The program promotes a systemic and critical perspective to the challenges facing individuals, families, organizations, and communities in both a global and local analytical and practical perspective. With an interdisciplinary commitment to social justice and human rights, we train professionals to seek collaborative, constructive, and conciliatory methods for resolving human conflict. Our goal is to train reflective conflict professionalspractitioners with a critical understanding of theory, research, and a range of methods, local and global perspectives, and an appreciation of diversity, peace development, and social justice.