Bachelor of Social Science/ Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - Peace and Development Studies in Campbelltown Australia | Western Sydney University

The Peace and Development Studies program focuses on approaches to advance peace, human rights, and sustainability. It entails critically examining power and opportunity disparities that fuel conflicts at global and local scales, social disruption, and environmental harm. Students will explore the systemic roots of racially motivated and gender-based violence, ecological emergencies, displacement, economic deprivation, resource disputes, and inequalities across generations. The interconnected framework of solutions encompasses empowerment and autonomy, sustainable lifestyles, positive development initiatives, and peace creation and maintenance. This necessitates comprehension of theories and techniques for detecting, evaluating, and addressing conflict and environmental decline. The program critically evaluates the presuppositions and shortcomings of conventional development approaches. Students will apply social theory within a multidisciplinary, practical context operating at community, national, and global scales. The curriculum consists of three core areas: 1) systemic inequality, social justice & human rights; 2) development and environmental sustainability; 3) peacebuilding and humanitarian interventions.