The Gender, Race and Diversity specialisation is one of 7 specialisations that are part of the MINT programme. Taught by Head Professor Aditya Bharadwaj, the specialisation is tailored to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and tools to help redress intersecting inequalities and oppressions globally.
The specialisation provides insights into power relations based on gender, race, and other forms of difference structure international affairs.
Students gain interdisciplinary training that addresses a broad range of topics, including histories of colonialism and decoloniality; anthropologies and sociologies of (anti)racism, sexuality and gender; the economics of gender and development; and the gendered and racialised politics of international governance and international law.
The Gender, Race, and Diversity specialisation within the interdisciplinary master's programme at the Geneva Graduate Institute explores power structures, inequalities, and identity through a global and intersectional lens. The curriculum integrates gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial perspectives, and social justice frameworks. It equips students with analytical tools to examine systemic discrimination and marginalisation and their impact on policy instruments, governance modalities, human rights, and gendered development.
This track is particularly urgent due to growing gender backsliding, the erosion of rights, and rising intolerance across the globe. Students are particularly motivated to examine attacks on reproductive freedoms, LGBTQ+ rights, and racial justice, making such academic immersion particularly essential and timely. The track also delves into broader concerns like migration, climate justice, and economic inequality, showing how race and gender shape global structures and processes. Our students find inspiration in addressing real-world injustices and engaging with activist, academic and policy-driven scholarship that generates tangible societal impact.
The track offers inspirational lectures and a dynamic, participatory learning environment. Our teaching is uniquely research led, incorporating emerging perspectives from the cutting edge work of our faculty. Initially structured around expert-led seminars, it now also incorporates interactive lectures and group work and seminars. Research led teaching gives students hands-on experience with gender and race policy challenges, socio-economic issues as well as broader cultural dynamics shaping inequality and prejudice.
