MA/MS in Development Studies (ISS)

This one-year master's gives students a critical grounding in contemporary global development issues, covering areas such as migration and refugee studies, poverty and food politics, agrarian and environmental questions, gender equality and rights, and human rights, governance, and development policy. Students build tools to understand and help bring about change, taking up themes such as gender, public policy, conflict and peace, governance, just transitions, social justice, and environmental sustainability, within a programme run by the International Institute of Social Studies, in The Hague, that brings together students from a wide range of backgrounds.