SELECTED TOPICS IN PEACE AND SECURITY (4 Credits)

Learning Outcome:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: identify the root causes of conflict, patterns, and trends in conflict and peace; discuss various theories and methods pertaining to peace and conflict; apply relevant concepts and methods to examine situations of conflict with a view toward conflict resolutions.

Topics :

1. Introduction to the Study of Violence, Conflict, and Peace;
2. Typologies of Violence, Conflict, and Peace;
3. Conflict Between States;
4. Causal Theories of Civil War;
5. New Wars (Project Assignment I);
6. Give War a Chance (Project Assignment II);
7. Creative Approach to Peacebuilding (Project Assignment III);
8. Ethnicity, Inequality and Violence;
9. Environmental Causes, Natural Resources, and Armed Conflict;
10. Resolving and Transforming Conflict;
11. Post-conflict Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Peace-building;
12. Gendered Perspectives on Injustice, Peace, and Security;
13. Non-violent Actions and Global Justice Movements.