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An introduction to issues surrounding conflict and the resolution of conflict in today's world focusing primarily on its contextual manifestation at the international, regional and intrastate levels. The course will explore important structural, social and psychological explanations of conflict. Attention will be given to ethnic and nationalist themes surrounding conflicts and their resolution at the intrastate and international levels. The course will examine how different types of intervention affect conflicts (the media, force, other types of third party intervention). Effective methods that foster an environment conducive to resolving or managing disputes will be studied. As part of this final task, the course will critically study how institutions such as power-sharing arrangements, federalism, and the role of law might figure in establishing a lasting basis for peaceful co-existence. Usually offered spring semester.
Note: Active nonviolence and conflict resolution focus on different stages of conflict. Active nonviolence is a sanction employed when conflict resolution has broken down; it is designed to move the parties toward conflict resolution. Active nonviolence also is employed when one or more of the parties to a conflict believe that conflict resolution is maintaining an unjust situation -- peace without justice.
For more information, contact:
Rev. David W. Smith
University of St. Thomas
Mail 4137
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
(651) 962-5325
Last modification date 07/05/2001.
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/justpeace/470.html
