BEDS2225 PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

BEDS2225 PEACE AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Course start date: 30 Aug 2019
Conflicts are a fact of daily living but its deterioration to large-scale violence and systematized social injustices undermine human wellbeing and social development. Peace and Conflict Management introduces students to the concepts, methods, frameworks and findings, which peace scholars, policy makers and activists use to produce conflict data and to address the causes of armed violence. The course unit creates a supportive environment where course participants reflect deeply on ideas and programmes at local level, state level and global level, which are deployed to create or sustain harmonious coexistence at interpersonal, societal and state level. Furthermore, the course unit introduces students to potential links between factors of trans-border significance (environment, religion, media and linguistic intractability) and the incitement or sustenance of armed violence that undermines development. As such, this course unit is essentially, a cross disciplinary examination of and reflection on ideas and programmes aimed at mapping violent conflicts, preventing violent conflict, resolving violent conflicts and reconstructing societies emerging from war with peace dividends (development outcomes) that function as incentives to prevent a relapse into violence.
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