POSTGRADUATE ADVERTISEMENT

CENTRE FOR
PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, NIGERIA

M.Sc. PROFESSIONAL DEGREE
PROGRAMME IN HUMANITARIAN AND REFUGEE STUDIES

2002/2003

Africa lacks professionally
trained and competent personnel for managing
humanitarian problems. Most of
the humanitarian workers, except
their support staff, come from the developed parts of
the world. This
situation needs to be reversed
since the humanitarian crises created by complex
emergencies, including wars,
are most likely to remain after
the foreign humanitarian workers would have returned
to their countries.
Africans therefore need to
develop their own self-sustaining capacity for
responding to humanitarian needs.

The Centre for Peace and
Conflict Studies (CEPACS), Faculty of the Social
Sciences, University of Ibadan,
Nigeria, is pleased to announce
its second in-take into the new Master's in
Humanitarian and Refugee
Studies (MHRS) Professional
Degree Programme. The programme was begun in the
2001/2002 academic
session, with the support of the
Association of African Universities (AAU), based in
Accra, Ghana,

Applications are hereby invited
for admission into the Programme for the 2002/2003
academic year. Further
details of the Programme and
qualifications for admission are as follows:

OBJECTIVES OF PROGRAMME

The MHRS Programme is designed
for meeting some of the most urgent needs on
contemporary Africa's
human security agenda in the
area of armed conflicts, humanitarian crisis and
intervention, and refugee
management. The Programme seeks
to foster understanding and knowledge about problems
thrown up by
those phenomena, as well as the
designing of appropriate policies and action measures
for linking relief work,
development and conflict
resolution. Another key objective of the Programme is
directed at building
self-sustaining capacity for
responding to humanitarian needs, by helping to
develop professionally trained
and competent personnel for
project design and implementation of policies in the
area.

TARGET BENEFICIARIES

The Programme is specially
tailored towards meeting the professional needs of
individuals, groups, and
agencies implicated in
humanitarian work and conflict management.

They include:

Armed forces personnel
Government and policy
makers
International humanitarian
agencies
Local and international
NGOs
Scholars and researchers
Media executives and human
rights activists.

SCHOLARSHIP

Scholarship would be awarded to
five (5) of the International Students enrolled in the
Programme. Details and
qualifications for an award
under the scheme are advertised separately. But, as a
rule, the awards will be
mostly to candidates who come
from countries in Africa either just emerging from
war-torn conditions, or
recently affected by refugee and
humanitarian disasters, or long prone to any of these.
Of course, the
awardees would have initially
satisfied the requirements for admission into the
Programme.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Candidates seeking admission
into the M.Sc Professional Degree Programme must
possess at least an
Honours degree in the
humanities, social sciences, science, law or any of
their cognate disciplines obtained
from accredited Universities.
Preference shall be given to sponsored candidates
doing jobs related to refugee
and humanitarian activities in
State ministries, industries, multilateral agencies,
non-governmental
organizations, etc. In addition,
candidates must satisfy the first-degree matriculation
requirements of the
University of Ibadan, i.e. 5 'O'
Level credit passes at one sitting or 6 at not more
than two sittings, including
English, or their equivalent
from other recognized universities.

DURATION OF PROGRAMME

The Programme is of eighteen
months duration, which includes three months of
supervised internship,
possibly at refugee camps,
rehabilitation camps for internally displaced persons,
conflict management
departments within regional and
sub-regional organizations, UN agencies with
humanitarian mandates in
Africa.

METHOD OF APPLICATION

Request for application form
should be made to: The Secretary, Postgraduate School,
University of Ibadan,
Ibadan, Nigeria.

Candidates should enclose a
self-addressed (35cm by 22.5cm) envelope i.e. (11`` x
9`` envelope large enough
to contain the Prospectus) with
N40.00 stamp(s) affixed within Nigeria. The envelope
should be marked
"Postgraduate Admissions
2001/2002" at the bottom left corner.

An application fee of N3, 000.00
if within Nigeria or U.S. $150.00 if outside Nigeria
in bank draft or bank
cheque drawn from non-depressed
banks within Ibadan metropolis should accompany the
request for form.
All bank drafts or cheques must
be crossed, stamped at the issuing bank, and made
payable to the University
of Ibadan, Ibadan.

The name and address of
applicant should be written at the back of the
drafts/cheques. Personal cheque
or postal or money orders will
not be accepted.

CLOSING DATE

To be considered for admission
in the 2002/2003 session, canndidates must duly
complete and return their
application forms to the
Postgraduate School by the revised date of August 31,
2002.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information about the
MHRS Programme as well as the Centre can be obtained
from the following
address:

Centre for Peace and Conflict
Studies (CEPACS)

Old Crèche Building, 17 Elliot
Close,

PMB U.I. Post Office,

University of Ibadan,

Ibadan, Nigeria

E-Mail: [email protected]