POLS 335 - International Conflict

4 Credit(s)

Gen Ed: Occasionally taught for WI and SI credit.
Explores different forms of conflict - from non-violent to violent - and their underlying dynamics. It addresses the following questions: Why can some conflicts be managed in a peaceful way, while others end in genocide? What are causes of conflict? What role does the cultural context, the state, the military, the economy, the gender order and ethnicity and nationalism play in conflicts? What are techniques to mediate and transform conflicts? And how in the aftermath of a conflict, can peace be made sustainable? Counts as a Governance elective for International Studies majors. Occasionally.

Prerequisite(s): POLS 140.