 The program is fundamentally concerned about the relationship between issues of security, war, violence on the one hand and development on the other. Traditionally these two fields have been looked at and approached separately, both in the world of policy making but also within academia and what we are doing in this course is to try to bring them closer together. I think the stuff that we study is extremely exciting. If you look in the newspaper on any given day there is something there that is something that we will talk about in class. I picked CST because I feel there is a need to have a balance between security and development in order to rebuild a country after conflict. The fact that King's is in London means we also have access to a wealth of information, activities and events at our disposal because we're in the heart of the capital. I would recommend CST because it's a very interdisciplinary course so your options after the course are actually quite varied. We really start from the beginning by looking at the developmental causes of conflict and ask whether there is anything about the way in which a society develops that may add a few conflict or serve to mitigate conflict. Even though we are a big class of 100 people, the professors are available for us. We can meet them any time, which is really good for us. It's a very dynamic and lively department and we have very, very good students that sort of feed on each other. Oh, the students are fantastic. So we've got such a wide range and I think the most important thing to know about our program is that it's hugely international. So for example, in my own state failure and state building class last year, I think there were 20 students from 15 countries. I think that pretty much says it all. One of the best things here in the department is the opportunity to take plenty of really interesting courses, but also to take courses in other departments. That's what I'm doing. I'm taking comparative civil wars inside the department and I'm taking, I took natural resources, governance in the African Leadership Center and political economy of organized crime in the political economics department. I think that the CSD group, the Conference on Security Development Group, is one of the most impressive ones anywhere in terms of the range of expertise covered in terms of its critical mass. One of the things that I think is really fantastic about the teaching staff is that many of us actually have experience with the organizations. We've worked for them. So I've worked for the United Nations. I've worked for the World Bank. And I can tell you from both perspectives as an academic and as a policymaker how we think about these things. And it allows for a deeper and more critical kind of engagement. I think the teaching staff at the World Studies Department are truly excellent because they got a very solid academic background, but they also have very relevant field experience. So you never feel that those two aspects of their teaching are disconnected. Quite a few of our students join government, department, government ministries. Ministries of Development, specialized agencies that deal with issues of conflict and security, for example, the stabilization unit would be one example. We have others that go into the world of NGOs, some of the larger professional NGOs, Oxfam, Christian Aid, and so on and so forth. And we have some that go into the armed forces. Some of them have come from the field and some of them are returning to it as well. And then we have a fair number of students that go on to do graduate work, either within the department or elsewhere.