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The aim of this graduate program is to enhance one’s ability to advance global governance and sustainable development, which are two crucial tasks in today’s world. The challenges associated with these tasks are complex and inter-linked (see the figure below). To illustrate, one of the major objectives of governance is to strike a balance between economic development and environmental conservation. The notion of development is expanding, and it now includes issues such as human security and resource recycling. Moreover, management of the environment by the global community requires local responses, which are predicated on sound governance and human development. With this in mind, what is required for global governance and sustainable development is the ability to question conventional wisdom and to design innovative analytical frameworks on the basis of inter-disciplinary knowledge. This program aims to develop that ability through a combination of critical reviews of theories and problem-oriented empirical studies.