Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast-moving field, with dramatic research breakthroughs emerging regularly. Many of these have utility for national security actors, whether in the military, intelligence agencies, or policy-making communities. Accordingly, AI has a longstanding and deepening connection with national security. This course will help to contextualise these developments. It will explore the striking changes that AI is bringing to national security, including to military tactics and strategy and will investigate the ways in which culture shapes the employment of AI. It will also consider some ethical implications of AI in national security affairs.

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience. You will have access to the course for 3 months.

No formal education or professional requirements however all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit:  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/ai-national-security 

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund.

The Indo-Pacific is emerging as one of the key regions in which international politics are redefined. It encompasses some of the world’s fastest growing economies, top world military powers, and rich cultures. Its economic dynamism rests on a maritime geography that has favoured connectivity and interdependence; its political make-up is defined by outstanding territorial disputes, unresolved Cold War issues, and an increasingly entrenched Sino-American structural competition; and its cultural traditions are both similar and different to Western traditions.

This particular course focuses on what is meant by the term "culture", how do people embedded in different cultures think, make judgements and decisions and when, why, and how culture matters in engagement with the Indo-Pacific region.  

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience. You will have access to this course for 3 months.

There are no formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/indo-pacific-culture-decision-making 

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund.

This course seeks to provide students with a general understanding of sanctions, defined as the restrictive measures imposed by states or groups of states to achieve coercive influence in the international system. Sanctions are among the most frequently used tools of diplomacy. For many states, they form an important part of foreign policy and they are regularly deployed in pursuit of foreign policy objectives.

The overall aims of this course are to:

- Explore the nature and purpose of sanctions
- Examine how sanctions are designed and used as tools of foreign policy in different contexts
- Consider how sanctions are challenged by state and non-state actors
- Explore the concept of sanctions evasion and what this looks like in practice

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience.You will have access to this course for 3 months.

There are no formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit:  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/sanctions 

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund.

The rise of China in the Liberal International Order has caused much frenzy and uncertainty across the Western civil society. China as a cultural and political entity creates anxiety in those parts of the world where liberalism has dominated for decades if not centuries. Citizens, policy-makers, and military are still catching up on their knowledge of China and cannot confidently deconstruct the complexity of a country that hosts a fifth of humanity and whose foreign interactions have been characterized by much ambiguity. 

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience.You will have access to this course for 3 months.

This course is particularly designed for all professionals working in the security and defence sector and those in business and industry with a specific focus on China and international security issues. It would also be suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

There are no formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/china-west-relations-dilemmas-lessons 

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund. 

This course offers an overview of the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants in countries recovering from conflict. It outlines the concepts, definitions, and types of DDR approaches that are followed by various international, and national agencies to demobilise armed groups, and to return and reintegrate their rank and file into civilian society. The short course will also map the evolution of programmatic efforts over time, and how the various shifts have influenced DDR effectiveness. This short course incorporates a gendered focus on the reintegration of women and girl combatants; and on the age-specific needs of child soldiers. It also involves a deep engagement with the question of ex-combatant re-recruitment; and the role of ex-combatant agency in the decision to re-engage in violence. 

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience. You will have access to this course for 3 months.

There are no formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit:  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/ddr-ex-combatants 

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund.

Wargaming is undergoing a renaissance. Not since the interwar period (1919-1939) has the method been so popular with not only governments, militaries, and NGOs, but also with a host of public and private institutions. This may not be surprising. The modern world is presenting us with a host of novel challenges including pandemics, climate crises, the rise of great power conflict, supply chain vulnerabilities, cyber security threats, and radical politics. Many of these challenges are new and poorly understood. Others are interacting in new and complex ways. Wargaming offers a potential way to help discover and evaluate strategies for dealing with them. But how?

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience.

You will have access to this course for 3 months.

No formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit:  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/wargaming-strategy 

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund.

Strategic communications is engaged with the shaping of long-term discourses in society. Strategic communicators aim to align these with their own values and interests. Through changing the attitudes and behaviour of their target audiences, they pursue strategic outcomes in politics and geopolitics.Strategic communications sits at the heart of any study of strategic affairs and a comprehensive understanding of international relations. It is ever present as states seek to gain advantage over other states, and as revolutionary and insurgent groups struggle to overthrow the status quo in their appeal to populations.In the 21st century, strategic communications is increasingly appropriated by state challengers as they prove more persuasive than those states they choose to subvert. Governments are struggling to respond to global challenges – ranging from violent conflict to climate change – that shock the social order. The shaping and control of messages – words, images, actions and non-actions – is increasingly difficult in a complex and constantly changing environment. In this course you will be introduced to the core concepts of strategic communications, frameworks of analysis, and different perspectives on strategic communications around the world such as China, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa.

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience.

You will have access to this course for 3 months.

No formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

More than twenty years since 9/11, terrorist-related threats remain alive. Understanding counterterrorism and its dilemmas is paramount. This course in five units seeks to provide students with a broad understanding of major dilemmas in countering terrorism.

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience. You will have access to this course for 3 months. 

No formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit: www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/major-dilemmas-in-counterterrorism

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund.

Military Healthcare Ethics (MHE) lies at the intersection of medical and military ethics. It is underpinned by the principle that medical facilities and personnel are fundamentally humanitarian actors afforded protection under International Humanitarian Law. This course is designed to enable participants to understand Military Healthcare Ethics in order to practice healthcare ethically in the military setting.

This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience. You will have access to this course for 3 months. 

No formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.

For full course details please visit: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/short-courses/military-healthcare-ethics

Please make sure you meet the entry requirements for this course before you start your application. King’s College London reserves the right to cancel your registration on the course if you do not meet all the requirements. If your registration is cancelled, the short course administrator will be in touch to arrange a refund.

In this course, we will cover the main features of the applied behavioural science literature; provide participants with practical tools to develop and evaluate interventions in their own contexts, and to evaluate the impact of these interventions. 

This course gives participants a bird’s eye view of policy evaluation concepts including evaluation methodologies, theories of change, measuring outcomes, and interpreting results in order to become more informed consumers, stakeholders, and decision-makers with respect to evidence-based policy research.