At St. Stephen's University in St. Stephen, Canada, Certificate in Story, Trauma & Peacebuilding is offered as a postgraduate certificate in Peace and Development Studies programme. The programme is delivered in a hybrid format.
At a glance
Degree:Postgraduate Certificate
Field:Peace and Development Studies
Delivery: Hybrid
We have no tuition fees on record for this programme yet — see the official programme page.
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This certificate program, the Certificate in Story, Trauma & Peacebuilding, covers 12 credit hours over roughly eight months to a year of full-time study. It centers trauma, grief, and story as foundational elements of peacebuilding, addressing collective memory and political conflict, colonial wounding and trauma, healing approaches, and practical peace-activism skills. The program runs on a hybrid schedule: readings and online sessions from January to April, a 10-day in-person collegium with intensive teaching in April or May, assignment completion from May to July, and a fieldwork course in August. It consists of five courses in total — four hybrid courses covering trauma healing, memory and commemoration, and peace-activism skills, plus a program-planning fieldwork course. The certificate is designed for peacebuilders who want a deeper understanding of how collective memory and political conflict interact with colonial wounding and trauma in contexts around the world.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:3.00 / 4.0
Admission Requirements: The Certificate in Story, Trauma & Peacebuilding page at St. Stephen's University sets out no admission requirements of its own and directs applicants to the university's general admission procedures. Under SSU's entrance requirements for graduate students, applicants need an undergraduate degree from an accredited university in a related discipline, with transcripts showing a minimum 3.0 GPA (B), rising to 3.3 GPA (B+) in the final two years of the major. Applicants whose first language is not English must present a paper-based TOEFL score of 550, an internet-based TOEFL (iBT) score of 86, or an IELTS score of 6.5; equivalent alternative tests may be considered. Mature applicants aged 30 or over with five years of relevant experience may be admitted without meeting the standard academic threshold, provided they achieve at least an A- average in a preliminary year after acceptance. The university states it evaluates applicants case by case rather than by fixed cut-offs, and asks for transcripts, a CV and a letter of recommendation with the application; a $200 CAD deposit is payable only after acceptance to confirm enrolment.
Application Details
Application Deadline:St. Stephen's University admits on a rolling basis with no fixed application deadline for domestic or international applicants; the admissions page states that applications are open on an ongoing basis. Prospective students submit a free online application with transcripts, a CV and a reference letter, receive a decision by email, and confirm their seat with a CAD 200 deposit. No fall, winter or other term-specific closing date is published, and no separate international deadline exists; international applicants are advised only to allow time for IRCC study-permit processing before their intended start. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
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