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Module Title |
Resolving and Managing Conflict
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Module Code |
LG533
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School |
School of Law & Government
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Online Module Resources
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| Module Co-ordinator | Dr John Doyle | Office Number | C201A |
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Level |
5
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Credit Rating |
10
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Pre-requisite |
None
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Co-requisite |
None
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Module Aims
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7 To examine the different experiences of attempts at successful and unsuccessful conflict resolution, management and prevention strategies
7 To introduce students to the major theoretical works of conflict resolution, in particular consociationalism and its critics
7 To explore through case studies a number of post cold war peace processes
7 To discuss the different methodological approaches to the analysis of conflict resolution strategies including large scale macro studies and case studies.
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Learning Outcomes
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7 By the end of the module students should be in a position to place contemporary developments in conflict resolution, management and prevention in an historical and theoretical framework.
7 Students should be comfortable with using the available on-line databases on the study of conflict.
7 Students should have engaged in at least one case study and presented oral and written outlines of their work.
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Indicative Time Allowances
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Hours
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Lectures |
12
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Tutorials |
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Laboratories |
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Seminars |
12
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Independent Learning Time |
126
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Total |
150
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NOTE
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Assume that a 10 credit module load represents approximately 150 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module.
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Indicative Syllabus
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Theories and Concepts
· Conflict Resolution, Management, Prevention and Transformation - clashing theories or condition specific responses?
· Theories of Conflict Escalation and de-escalation
· Consociational Theory and the work of A. Lijphart
· Changing political culture or division of spoils - the critique of Horowitz.
International Peace and Security Architecture
· The role of the UN
· Regional Organisations
o the African Union and its peacekeeping facility
o European Security - the EU and NATO
· Different International Perspectives - the US and EU `security strategies' compared.
International Responses
· Conflict Prevention - Macedonia and Rwanda
· Mediation and peace agreements - Northern Ireland, Cyprus
· Traditional Peacekeeping - UNIFIL (and Liberia ?)
· Peace Enforcement Missions - Somalia, (and Bosnia?)
· Armed Intervention - Kosovo
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| Assessment | | Continuous Assessment | 100% | Examination Weight | 0% |
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Indicative Reading List
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7 Bellamy, Alex, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin. (2004). Understanding peacekeeping. Polity Press.
7 Cousins Elizabeth and Chaten Kumar, eds., 2001. Peacebuilding as Politics. Boulder; London: Lynne Rienner Publishers
7 Holzgrefe, JL and Robert O. Keohane eds. (2003) Humanitarian intervention :ethical, legal, and political dilemmas . Cambridge University Press.
7 Horowitz, Donald (1985) Ethnic Groups in Conflict, (University of California Press).
7 Horowitz, Donald (2001). The deadly ethnic riot. University of California Press.
7 Lijphart, Arend (1977). Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration. New Haven: Yale University Press. (and the extensive journal articles by Lijphart on consociationalism
7 Miall Hugh, Oliver Ramsbotham and Tom Woodhouse, Contemporary Conflict Resolution Polity Press; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
7 Walter Barbara F and Snyder Jack, 2000. Civil Wars, Insecurity and Intervention, New York: Columbia University Press.
7 Wheeler, Nicholas (2000). Saving Strangers, Humanitarian intervention in international society. Oxford: OUP.
7 Woodhouse, Tom Robert Bruce, and Malcolm Dando eds. (1998). Peacekeeping and peacemaking: towards effective intervention in post-Cold War conflicts Basingstoke: Macmillan.
7 Woodhouse, Tom and Oliver Ramsbotham eds. (2000). Peacekeeping and conflict resolution. London : Frank Cass, 2000
7 Zartman, William (ed.). 1995: Elusive Peace: Negotiating an End to Civil Wars. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution.
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Programme or List of Programmes
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| HMSA | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) |
| HMSAO | Study Abroad (Humanities & Soc Science) |
| MISC | MA in International Security & Conflict |
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