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You are about to start your Master's programme in Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University in The Hague, The Netherlands. Make sure you are well prepared and get your studies off to a good start.

Crises arising from terrorism, cyber threats, and natural disasters dominate world news and make Crisis and Security Management a heavily politicized and hotly debated topic at the top of the national and global societal and governance agenda.

Are you thinking about studying Crisis and Security Management? Learn more and watch the introduction video. Or watch the recordings of the Online Master's Open Days presentations on the track-related pages.

Are you thinking about studying Crisis and Security Management: Cybersecurity Governance? Learn more and watch the videos.

Are you thinking about studying Crisis and Security Management: Governance of Crisis? Learn more and watch the videos.

Are you thinking about studying Crisis and Security Management: Intelligence and National Security? Learn more and watch the videos.

Are you thinking about studying Crisis and Security Management: Governance of Violence? Learn more and watch the videos.

Are you thinking about studying Crisis and Security Management: War and Peace Studies? Learn more and watch the videos.

Are you thinking about studying Crisis and Security Management: Governance of radicalism, extremism and terrorism? Learn more and watch the videos.

Training and Exercising in Crisis management and Emergency Control

Our main goal is to improve understanding of how intelligence and security services operate, how they are embedded in broader political, bureaucratic, and societal contexts, and how their methodologies can be complemented.

Teacher Dr. Elke Devroe introduces group role-play on actual themes of governance of crime and social disorder. In the final session of the course, the classroom was transformed into a theatric scene where students applied their insight into the contemporary debates on various issues in governance…

On Wednesday morning, 14 March, Sander Dekker, Minister for Legal Protection, gave a guest lecture to the students of the Master Crisis and Security Management as part of the course Crisis Management. Dr. Sanneke Kuipers presented propositions based on theory to Minister Dekker. After each proposition,…

Explaining the origins , patterns and outcomes of crisis management efforts.

What is the top 50 most popular studies among employers? That's what career platform Magnet.me investigated for the second consecutive year. What does it show? The programmes of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs are well represented in the ranking.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressing question is how this global health emergency impacted the research agendas of the field of crisis and disaster science. This article reviewed contributions in ten important crisis and disaster journals in the two and a half years following the COVID-19…

On 9 April 2019 the graduation ceremony of the master Crisis and Security Management (MSc) took place. Three graduates were asked how they felt now, what they are going to miss, whether they would have wanted to do something different looking back and what their future plans are.

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The project on Mobility and Security in Europe (MOSE) will look at the EU’s response to real and perceived security threats in a European Union without internal borders.

This study explores public leaders’ organizational learning orientation in the wake of a crisis. More precisely, we study the association between public leaders’ public service motivation and their learning orientation (instrumental versus political).

This article offers a typology for organizational and institutional crisis management that portrays three sorts of crises: a crisis in an organization, a crisis to the organization and a crisis about the organization.

As our society becomes increasingly complex, it is critical that we better understand how we can deal with fundamental issues such as societal and personal security, and resilience against threats to our security.

How do crises produce changes in specific European Union foreign policy areas, and how should we conceptualise these policy changes?

Criminology and Security Policy is a challenging Dutch-taught master's programme at the renowned Leiden Law School of Leiden University. This programme – with its multidisciplinary perspective - focuses on the security issues in society and the development of effective and legitimate policy in order…

Researchers at LIACS are working to devise the computers of tomorrow that will be the backbone of the Cloud and Edge computing paradigms as well as the Internet of Things. In this respect, we are involved in research and development of high performance computing systems, embedded & real-time computing…

Training and Exercising in Crisis management and Emergency Control

Researchers at LIACS are working to devise the computers of tomorrow that will be the backbone of the Cloud and Edge computing paradigms as well as the Internet of Things. In this respect, we are involved in research and development of high performance computing systems, embedded & real-time computing…

Intelligence and National Security is the new specialisation in MSc Crisis and Security Management (CSM). It will start next September 2021. Do you want to know more about this track?

In this article, James Shires and Tatiana Tropina, assistant professors at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, map the relationship between gender equality and cybersecurity governance as a component of good security sector governance (SSG). Here, it highlights the way in which cybersecurity…

Peak Performance: Collaborative Crisis Management Before and During International Summits. This comparative case study probes into conditions for collaborative governance in the security organisation of international summits.

On 22 November 2018, Els De Busser spoke at a panel during the conference

In this article, Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, and Martin Lodge address the question of how to manage banking crises, a question that has gained prominence since the banking crisis of 2007-2009. This article sets out the rationale for regulating for…

Intelligence of the crowd, or in other words, intelligence of a large, random collective, exists mostly in social media platforms such as twitter. The collective does not comprise (at least not necessarily) experts on crises, just regular people mostly. Nevertheless, there is valuable intelligence to…

This article 'Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership' assesses the role, influence and core aspects of the EU High Representatives’ (HR/VPs) “political leadership” in the context…

The economics department teaches the following four courses within the master Pubic sector Management. This is a dutch master.

The Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law research programme for 2020-2023 centres around the integrity of financial markets during times of crisis and possible regulation to secure it.

Today's health care system faces many challenges. The interdisciplinary two-year Master's programme in Population Health Management (PHM) will train you to contribute to a more sustainable and integrated health care system. Become an innovator in the way we organise health. Read more about the progamme…

Today's health care system faces many challenges. The interdisciplinary two-year Master's programme in Population Health Management (PHM) will train you to contribute to a more sustainable and integrated health care system. Become an innovator in the way we organise health. Read more about the progamme…

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Are you looking for a master's degree at a world-class university where high-quality education, the best lecturers and leading researchers are all part of the package? Leiden University offers almost 80 English taught master's programmes: you’re certain to find one that suits you.

During the Master's Experience Days you'll get to experience the master of your choice. You can attend lectures and ask all your questions to current students, teachers and alumni. In February you can attend the Master's Online Experience Days and in March you can go to Leiden or The Hague for the Master's…

During the Master's Experience Days you'll get to experience the master of your choice. You can attend lectures and ask all your questions to current students, teachers and alumni. In February you can attend the Master's Online Experience Days and in March you can go to Leiden or The Hague for the Master's…

Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs

Study information

To be admitted to the master’s degree programme in September 2023, you need to register in Studielink. You need to submit another application for admission, this time for the MSc Psychology. Your application must be completed by the 15th of May 2023. If you want to start the master’s degree programme…

In the track Governance of Crisis, you will be familiarized with the main body of knowledge on strategic crisis management.