Program Details

The program prepares graduates as homeland security leaders who are able to coordinate a multidisciplinary team in the management of standard, ethical practices, procedures, and technologies to collect information, identify threats, assess risk, develop actionable policies, and implement organisational, interagency solutions to strengthen the resilience of the security, safety, defence, emergency and crisis management community.

The program was developed to meet the educational and security goals of the Abu Dhabi Plan. Specifically, in the education sector, the program empowers students through improving and enhancing their capacities and skills; provides a driving and supporting environment for research, sciences and technology; and promotes the system and culture of innovation. For the security sector, the program qualifies employees for maintaining of security and safety; and enhancing the cooperation and collaboration in various national security scopes and area.

The Homeland Security program includes highly specialized, multidisciplinary courses in intelligence, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, risk mitigation, critical infrastructure, strategic planning, policy development, and environmental security. This qualification is unique in the GCC and through a combination of lecture, discussion, simulation exercises and applied real-world scenarios, students learn team leadership, professional ethics, strategic planning, interagency operations, and resilience of national security through the core principles of contemporary relevance, integration, cooperation, multi-agency coordination, and interoperability. Graduates are leaders who contribute to the safety, security, defence, emergency preparedness, and crisis management (SSDEC) for resilience of the nation.