Course ID: | INTL 8225. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | International Conflict Management |
Course Description: | When militarized conflicts occur between states, what can
international actors do to de-escalate them? The course seeks
to answer this broad question. It investigates how
international actors manage the causes and consequences of
conflict through myriad strategies, including negotiation,
mediation, arbitration, adjudication, humanitarian
intervention, and peace operations. |
Oasis Title: | INTL CONFLICT MGMT |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | At the conclusion of this course, students should:
*Have a general familiarity with the various topics (and the
current state of research on them) within the field of
international conflict management;
*Understand the interdisciplinary nature of the conflict
management field;
*Be able to critically evaluate theoretical and empirical
arguments made in the scholarly literature;
*Have practice writing syntheses and critical assessments of
scholarly literature;
*Identify potential avenues of future (conflict management)
research; and (/or)
*Construct a research design that can serve as the foundation
for a future scholarly paper. |
Topical Outline: | I. Foundations of Conflict Management
a. Course Introduction
b. Conflict Management Overview
II. Conflict Theory
a. (Some) Theories of Conflict
III. The Theory and Practice of Conflict Management
a. Theories of Conflict Management
b. Evaluating Conflict Management Efforts
c. Different Methodologies in the Study of Conflict
Management
IV. Tools and Topics of Conflict Management
a. Conflict Prevention
b. Negotiations
c. Mediation
d. Legal Strategies (Arbitration/Adjudication)
e. Peace Operations
f. Organizations, Coercion, and Humanitarian Problems
g. Obstacles to the Durability of Peace
V. Conflict Resolution
a. Conflict Management or Resolution |
Honor Code Reference: | As a University of Georgia student, you have agreed to follow
the University’s academic honesty policy (“A Culture of
Honesty”) and the Student Honor Code. All academic work must
meet the standards contained in “A Culture of Honesty”
(including policies that cover plagiarism; for more
information, see http://www.uga.edu/honesty). Students are
responsible for informing themselves about these standards
before performing any academic work and may direct specific
questions they have regarding the policy (or its application to
course assignments) to the instructor. |