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Explore critical approaches to the understanding of vulnerability and risk within communities challenged by violence.
The University of Maryland Graduate School is offering an exciting new vulnerability and violence reduction master's degree and graduate certificate that will complement your professional degree with the skills you need to address emerging violence challenges across the globe. Both programs are tuition remission eligible.
For more information on these degree programs or tuition remission, please contact Jade Grant at the Graduate School.
Vulnerability and Violence Reduction
These programs provide a multidisciplinary framework to understand the factors that lead to violence, the role of power and structure, the importance of place and population, and different approaches that have been used to address violence using interactive case studies and learning from experts around the globe. Faculty members trained in law, public health, nursing, politics, and technology will teach students the conditions that lead to violence and how to develop innovative strategies to address violence in their communities.
Applications for the fall term are due July 1 with a priority consideration application deadline of June 1. More information can be found on the Vulnerability and Violence Reduction program pages.
MS in Vulnerability and Violence Reduction: 30 credits
Graduate Certificate in Vulnerability and Violence Reduction: 12 credits
The Vulnerability and Violence Reduction master's program provides a framework to understand the factors that lead to violence, the role of power and structure, the importance of place and population, and different approaches that have been used to address violence using case studies. Students will use this basis to develop interdisciplinary and innovative strategies to address violence in their communities.
The Vulnerability and Violence Reduction certificate program teaches the core elements of the vulnerability and violence — how to understand how vulnerability leads to violence, how to promote peace in communities, and now to sustain non-violence. Learn from faculty members trained in law, public health, nursing, politics, and technology to develop innovative strategies to address violence in their communities.
Apply for the programs here.
Virginia Rowthorn, JD, LLM, program director
Virginia Rowthorn is assistant vice president for global engagement at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and executive director of UMB’s Center for Global Engagement. She is also a faculty member at the University of Maryland Graduate School, where she is program director for the MS in Vulnerability and Violence Reduction. In her role as executive director, Rowthorn oversees the activities of the Center for Global Engagement, which serves as the hub of interprofessional global health and education activities on the primarily graduate UMB campus. One of those activities is the President’s Global Impact Fund, a seed grant program to initiate or grow international collaborations.
Learn about the faculty here.