JPST 470: Conflict Resolution

Course Description

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 ethic and nationalist themes surrounding conflicts and their resolution at the intrastate and international levels.

The course will examine how different types of invention 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.

This course is usually offered in the spring semester.

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