Programme Overview

The MPhil / PhD in Peace, Conflict and Governance Studies is a postgraduate research programme designed for candidates transitioning from Master’s level study to doctoral research. The programme provides advanced research training and assessment that enables candidates to demonstrate the capacity for independent, original, and rigorous scholarly research in peace studies, conflict resolution, and governance.

The programme serves as a pathway to the PhD degree for candidates who require additional research preparation and evaluation before full doctoral admission.

The philosophy of the MPhil / PhD programme is rooted in the University’s commitment to academic excellence, ethical scholarship, and research-driven solutions to societal challenges. The programme aims to strengthen candidates’ theoretical grounding, research methodology, and analytical competence in preparation for advanced doctoral research.

The Peace, Conflict Resolution and Governance Studies Programme aims at equipping the graduate students at the Postgraduate Diploma, Masters’ and Doctoral levels with a broad- based knowledge in the major theories, concept and themes of Governance, Peace and Conflicts, sources and causes of conflicts, stages of conflicts, conflict analysis, conflict mapping, early warning mechanism, arms control, methods and processes of peace making and conflict resolution.

The objectives of the programme are to

  1. Prepare and produce graduates with the requisite knowledge of governance, and contemporary politics.
  2. Turnout graduates who are well-grounded and resourced to take up leadership tasks in governance, politics, public sector as well as organized private sector.
  3. Graduate students who are capable of analysing the basic concepts, theories, themes and issues in peace studies and conflict resolution;
  4. Produce graduates with demonstrable ability to identify specific context of the sources, causes and processes of conflicts;
  5. Turnout graduates with demonstrable understanding of various approaches to conflict mapping and conflict analysis;
  6. Graduate students who can identify and apply various methods of conflict management;
  7. Produce graduates with demonstrable understanding and competent skills in evaluating, interpreting and solving conflict situations.
  1. In addition to the various Departmental requirements, which are available on the University’s website, prospective candidates must satisfy the general regulations governing postgraduate admissions at the Redeemer’s University.
  2. Candidates for admission into MPhil/PhD programme must have scored 55-59% in the MSc programme.
  1.  The MPhil/PhDcandidate will have to undergo a conversion examination to be conducted by an examination panel in order to proceed to the PhD;
  2. The examination panel shall be made up of the Head of Department as the Chief Examiner, Department/Faculty Postgraduate Coordinators, Representative of the College of Postgraduate Studies, Supervisor and Internal-External Examiner.
  3. The candidate shall be required to score a minimum of 60% weighted average to proceed to PhD.
  4.  A candidate who falls short of making the minimum requirement of scoring 60% will proceed to complete his/her dissertation and be awarded a terminal M.Phil degree provided the candidate scores a minimum of 50%.
  5.  A candidate who fails to proceed within the immediate session shall be required to re-apply.
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