To provide students with the facilities to analyse ideas and concepts of peace and war, processes of conflict resolution and normative issues of peace and war.
Modes of study
Lectures, a book exam (see literature) and/or a compensatory essay to be agreed on with the teacher in charge.
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Recommended year of study
Second year, periods 2-4.
Study materials
Kant, Perpetual Peace (1 ECTS)
In addition, four of the following: 1. Richmond, Transformation of Peace. Palgrave 2007. (2 ECTS) 2. Fierke, Conflict and Change in a Globalizing World. Palgrave 2005. (2 ECTS) 3. Miall - Rambotsham - Woodhouse, Contemporary Conflict Resolution. Polity Press 2004. (2 ECTS) 4. Bercovitch (ed.), Studies in International Mediation. Palgrave 2003. (2 ECTS) 5. Richmond - Newman (eds.), The United Nations and Human Security. Palgrave 2002. (2 ECTS) 6. Enloe, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women. University of California Press 2000 (2 ECTS) 7. Walzer, Arguing about War. Yale University Press 2006. (2 ECTS)