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The African Leadership Centre’s taught Master’s programmes are concerned with the leadership dimensions of security and development across the developing world.

Our programmes bring together students from all regions of the Global South as well as from North America and Europe. The Master’s programmes create a multicultural and diverse learning environment for high performing students committed to:

content acquisition and policy analysis;
research skills acquisition and research planning tasks;
using their research skills and knowledge to participate in a variety of events, processes and design and implementation of frameworks geared to engender peaceful resolution of conflict in the developing world;
promoting respect for diversity including gender equality within organisations and in society.

Global Affairs MSc

Duration full-time: One year, part-time: two years

Study Global Affairs MSc at King's College London

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Leadership & Development MSc

Duration 1 year FT, September to September

This programme provides high quality post-graduate training that builds the capacity for critical analysis, independent judgement and engagement with critical audiences on Leadership and Development.

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Security, Leadership & Society MSc/PG Dip

Duration 1 year FT, September to September

This programme provides high quality post-graduate training that builds the capacity for critical analysis, independent judgement and engagement with critical audiences on Security, Leadership and Society.

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Leadership & Development MSc

When Abi won an end-of-the-year prize, a trip to attend a conference at King’s centre in Nairobi, she took a moment to reflect on her year at King’s and realised that she had emerged as a leader.

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PhD research

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Details about our Leadership Studies with reference to Security & Development PhD.

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Fellowship programmes

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Building a community of leaders focusing on peace, security and development in Africa.

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Our connections

We work with an outstanding range of diverse, international organisations.

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Creating the next generation of African leaders

Find out more about how King’s College London is working in Nigeria to develop the next generation of African leaders to inspire them to make positive change in the future.