Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Specific details of courses to be offered will be published prior to enrolment each term.

COURSE DETAILS:

This module explores the nature and character of peacekeeping and peacebuilding. The module is divided into four sections.

(a.) Definitions of security and the nature of contemporary conflict which peacekeeping and peacebuilding are designed to mitigate and address.
(b.) An examination of traditional approaches and practice to peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
(c.) Contemporary considerations
(d.) Case Studies.

Security is defined to evaluate and interpret perceived successes of peacebuilding and peace keeping initiatives. Contemporary Conflict scenarios are explored to examine how and if the nature and character of conflict has changed. The nature and character of traditional peacekeeping practice is also examined given the insights of gender, post-colonial and post structural lenses.

The course takes a critical approach to contemporary and traditional peacekeeping perspectives and examines the utility and importance of peacekeeping tenets and practice and whether they are ‘fit for purpose’ in a security environment that is in the process of significant change.

Peacebuilding is defined and explored via the distinctions between conflict stabilisation, conflict resolution and conflict transformation.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

To distinguish between conflict transformation and conflict resolution as a means to peacebuilding
To define security
To develop an appreciation for the nature of contemporary conflict
To critically evaluate the methods of contemporary peacekeeping practice

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Materials

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