The Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution began in the Fall of 2004. This is a 36 credit hour program dedicated to providing high-quality, professional training in multiple conflict intervention skills such as mediation, negotiation, and conflict transformation, violence intervention, and collaborative problem solving. The program focuses on pragmatic approaches to solving problems in a variety of social settings. Students are exposed to a wide array of techniques and strategies to achieve nonviolent solutions to conflicts that arise in diverse and conflictual personal, professional, organizational, and community environments.