Sustainable Peacebuilding Microcredentials Graduate Microcredential
Advance your career, pivot to new opportunities, or enhance your graduate studies. Gain transferrable and crucial skills through coursework designed for students, professionals, and community members. Prepare yourself to stand out in a competitive job market!
Our Sustainable Peacebuilding microcredentials offer flexible hybrid courses that can be taken by current degree-seeking UWM students or non-degree/special students in the community. Each microcredential can be taken individually.
Program Type
Microcredential
Program Format
On Campus, Online
Why Sustainable Peacebuilding?
Strong, healthy communities flourish when guided by skilled peacebuilding professionals. Develop your expertise as a social change leader and harness the power of empathy, reflective practice, and resilience thinking.
Conflict can be challenging, but it also holds the potential for transformation. The world needs dedicated peacebuilders like you—ready to deepen your practice and expand your skill set.
Microcredentials offer a fast, flexible way for professionals to advance their careers or transition into new fields. Whether you’re returning to the workforce, changing industries, or enhancing your graduate studies, a microcredential can strengthen your resume and set you apart. By mastering transferable skills and key competencies, students and professionals gain a competitive edge in today’s evolving job market.
The Sustainable Peacebuilding program offers two types of microcredentials:
- Microcredential in Conflict Transformation and Resilience (6 credits)
- Microcredential in Community and Organizational Change (6 credits)
The Conflict Transformation and Resilience microcredential deepens understanding of the causes and catalysts of conflict. Skill-based development around opportunities to transform conflict into constructive opportunities for collaboration and innovation. Skills include negotiation, conflict mediation, interpersonal and personal peacemaking, restorative practice frameworks, and restorative justice tools.
Students can choose two courses from this list:
- MSP 760: Systems Thinking, Mapping, and Sustainability
- MSP 762: Conflict Transformation: Negotiation and Mediation Skills
- MSP 770: Conflict Analysis and Restorative Practices
The Community and Organizational Change microcredential provides students with skills for organizing people, projects, and information. Coursework focuses on deepening the why and the how to establish and expand community engagement in projects that impact local communities.
Students can choose two courses from this list:
- MSP 760: Systems Thinking, Mapping, and Sustainability
- MSP 771: Facilitation Skills for Peacebuilding
- ED POL 501G: Community Change and Engagement
