Course Catalog
| CONF 500 International Conflict and Peace | 3 Credits | ||||||||||||
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| This course provides an overview of the related fields of peace studies and conflict resolution by exploring different definitions, perspectives, actors, and tools available to practitioners and scholars. It is a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on the causes and conditions of international conflict and peace. It examines the history and development of contending approaches to conflict and peace, their basic assumptions and methodologies, and their application to current conflict situations, with particular emphasis upon the following: peace through coercive power; peace through nonviolence; peace through world order; and peace through personal and community transformation. | |||||||||||||
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| ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) | |||||||||||||
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