International Conflict Studies

Olaf Bachmann
War in the Modern World MA/PG Dip
War in the Modern World is a mind-opening course. This is not only due to the excellent teaching, or the material provided, but also to the wide range of participating students. Some of my classmates – for the majority of them, British citizens, both military and civilian – participated from their postings in the Middle East, others from ships on the high seas, others yet from their offices and homes in Berlin, California, or Singapore and some even from their barracks in Iraq or Afghanistan. You can imagine how interesting every single discussion unit has been! The success of distance learning depends very much on every single student's capacity for self-motivation. The constant challenge of new inputs from such a diversity of backgrounds and experiences significantly helped stay the course over a stretch of three years. But all was not "must read faster - must write quicker" as one would expect from an MA course at such a renowned university as King's College, London. It was also fun, even if most members of our cohort only met for the first time at the graduation ceremony.