Certificate in Conflict Transformation & Social Entrepreneurship

Make productive problem solving and leadership your secondary concentration. This certificate will complement any major or your current profession.

What is conflict transformation & social entrepreneurship?

Innovative, holistic, mindful, research-based doing designed to address a social problem in a sustainable manner. Social entrepreneurship addresses real world problems — from interpersonal to international — by doing with purpose, and actively and thoughtfully engaging with others to transform conflicts.

About the certificate

• It is a free-standing* certificate.
• Will help you master a range of concrete, transferable skills.
• Will make you more effective in any workplace.
• Aims to integrate insights from conflict transformation, social sciences and social entrepreneurship.

*Free-standing means you may enroll for this certificate whether you are a current UA student or a professional. 

What you can expect

Learn the skills that are central to finding more innovative and sustainable ways to address social and political problems and to improve your analysis of real world problems.

Core intellectual and leadership skills:

• Active listening skills
• Networking and team building skills
• Reframing with questions
• Media literacy skills
• Honoring competing perspectives and conflict styles
• Seeing conflict as normal and an invitation to become leaders in our own lives
• Understanding the relationship between individual agency (behavior) and organizational structures
• Lens shifting and code switching, perspective taking and role playing
• Mindfully and empirically analyzing social and political problems
• Combining our serpent and dove to see that civility without contestation is sentimental and anemic, while contestation without civility is reckless and abusive