Course Description
Peace and Conflict Resolution
As technological developments in the 20th and 21st century make conflict an increasingly adverse choice, how are peace talks and conflict resolutions affecting today’s political hot spots? How do environmental factors such as declining food resources, storm and flood disasters, and environmentally induced migration change global conflict scenarios? How do politics and human rights interact? This class is intended to enable students to understand the dynamics of peace and conflict and to contribute toward the efforts for more just and peaceful conditions in today’s world.
Students in this course will examine conflict and peace at various levels, linking local and global issues, through critical thinking and interdisciplinary approaches. Because a large part of peacemaking involves the appreciation of human diversity, the course will focus on multi-cultures, and matters of difference related to religion, gender, race, ethnicity, and socio-economic class. The overall aim of this course is to provide the students with a set of conceptual tools through which to evaluate and understand contemporary issues in peace and conflict resolution and combine philosophical inquiry, historical knowledge, critical analysis and experiential learning in the course of empowering students for a citizenship of peace with social justice.