Peace Operations
PostgraduateMAQ-PICX80612026
Previously MAQ-PICX861
Course information for 2026 intake View information for 2025 course intake
Multi-dimensional by definition, this course seeks to understand the connection between political, economic, military, social, and cultural security, while teaching the high-order research skills required to appraise and analyse security challenges.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 19 July 2026
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Price from
- $4,320
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Peace Operations
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, a student will be able to:
- Critically analyse the current scholarly debate on peace operations.
- Independently investigate the policy responses to peace operations with case studies from different countries.
- Apply high order research skills to peace operations, demonstrated through the generation of new research knowledge and policy memos.
- Critically evaluate the current peace operations challenges in an ethical, responsible and professional manner.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics in this subject will be provided in the study materials.
The unit was formerly known as PICX8061 Transnational Security.
The unit is designed as a thorough introduction into UN peace operations, a continually high salience issue of global politics. The unit is divided into three parts: the theory and history of UN peace operations from 1947 through the present, including peacekeeping principles, doctrinal developments and evolving peacekeeping typology; the operations/praxis of peace operations, to include for example, the rules and practices on troop contributions, funding, and deployment models; and current debates, to include for example, whether peace operations work; contested consent, and the future of peacekeeping during great power competition.
- Take home examination (50%)
- Policy Memo (50%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MAQ-PICX913 (Not currently available)
MAQ-PICX922 (Not currently available)
MAQ-PICX861 (Not currently available)
Others
NCCW (pre-2020 units) PICX913, PICX922, PICT861, PICX861
Pre-requisite Admission to MSecStrategicStud or MIntell or MCrim or MCyberSec or MCTerrorism or GradCertSecStudCr or GradDipSecStudCr or MPICT or GradDipPICT or MPICTMIntSecSt or MIntSecStud or GradDipIntSecStud or MIntRel or GradDipIntRel or MIntBusMIntRel or MTransInterMIntRel or MCPICT or MCPICTMISS or GradDipCPICT or GradCertCPICT or MSecStrategicStudMCrim or MSecStrategicStudMIntell or MSecStrategicStudMCyberSec or MSecStrategicStudMCTerrorism or MIntellMCrim or MIntellMCyberSec or MIntellMCTerrorism or MCyberSecMCTerrorism or MCyberSecMCrim or MCTerrorismMCrim or Master of Cyber Security Analysis or 10cps at 6000 level or 10cps 8000 level
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Broadband access. Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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