News
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MIRD student Ricardo: ‘Students can change the world’ 10 November 2022
During International Student Week, from 14 to 18 November, we would like to put our international students into the spotlight. Ricardo Alexandre de Je...
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Project TARGET: Fatal firearm violence down by 50% since the ‘90s of the previous century 07 November 2022
Project TARGET is a research project aimed at the relation between the illegal arms trade and firearm violence. In a study conducted in seven countrie...
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New track 'Governance of Violence' addresses need to conduct violence specific studies 01 November 2022
The sixth specialisation of the Master Crisis and Security Management (CSM) will start in September 2023: Governance of Violence. Coordinator of this ...
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Omar Al Sadeh: ‘My heart told me to go to Foreign Affairs’ 27 October 2022
Trail, FGGA’s internship platform will be one-year old in November. In the upcoming weeks, we will be interviewing some FGGA students who went on inte...
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MIRD Annual Student Visit to Brussels and EU Institutions 20 October 2022
On 13 and 14 October 70 first-year students of the MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy had the opportunity to visit several European Union i...
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Governing Polarized Societies (GPS): new research programme to be launched 19 October 2022
Researchers from the Institute of Public Administration and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at FGGA are launching a new research programm...
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How to disappoint your parents? 06 October 2022
On Thursday 29 September the workshop ‘How to Disappoint your Parents’ took place at Wijnhaven. Lenore Todd, Student Life Officer and Assistant Profes...
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Anouk Booten: 'Cyber security is becoming bigger every day because threats are becoming bigger every day' 04 October 2022
Trail, FGGA’s internship platform will be one-year old in November. In the upcoming weeks, we will be interviewing some FGGA students who went on inte...
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Over 3 million euros in funding for Surveillance & Protection research project 28 September 2022
A research team from the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) has received over 3 million euros in funding from the Knowledge Centre Survei...
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Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’ 27 September 2022
On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Leiden University to discuss future developmen...
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Graduation Security Studies: ‘Stay curious’ 01 September 2022
On Wednesday 31 August 2022, the graduation ceremony of the BSc Security Studies took place. The ceremony was opened by programme director Daan Weggem...
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Funding for MASTERY: how to deal with sensitive topics in academia 23 August 2022
Ten projects have been selected during the fourth call in the Seed Funding Programme launched by EUniWell. Marieke Liem, Professor Social Resilience ...
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Joachim Koops awarded with Jean Monnet Chair on ‘The EU’s Role in Security and Global Affairs’ 22 August 2022
Joachim Koops, Professor of Security Studies and Scientific Director of Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) has been a...
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Call for Papers: Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges 18 July 2022
Hybrid Workshop: In person and online on 26 – 27 January 2023.
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Graduation MIRD Class of 2022: Students in the spotlight 11 July 2022
On Monday, 4 July 2022, the graduation of the two-year Advanced MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) programme was commemorated in the ico...