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Conflict and Peace Building
This course is designed to help build an understanding of a variety of conflict situations among students in a way that they can relate to them through their lived experiences. It’s an interdisciplinary course that draws its insights from various branches of social sciences and seeks to provide a lively learning environment for teaching and training students how to bring about political and social transformations at the local, national and international levels.
Concepts: Understanding Conflict; Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation; Peace Building
Dimensions of Conflict : Ideology; Economic/Resource Sharing Conflicts; Socio‐Cultural Conflicts (Ethnic, Religious, Gender‐based)
Sites of Conflict: Local ; Sub‐National; International
Conflict Responses: Skills And Techniques: Negotiations: Trust Building ; Mediation: Skill Building, Active Listening
Conflict Responses: Skills And Techniques: Track I, Track II & Multi Track Diplomacy; Gandhian Methods
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- Saunders,H. (1999) A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue To Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts, New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Mason S.and Siegfried,M. (2010) Debriefing Mediators To Learn Their Experiences, Washington D.C: United States Institute Of Peace.
- Zartman I.and De Soto, A.(2010) Timing Mediation Initiatives, Washington D.C: United States Institute Of Peace.
- Smith A.and Smock, D.(2010) Managing A Mediation Process, Washington D.C: United States Institute Of Peace.
- Burgess H.and Burgess, G.(2010) Conducting Track II, Washington D.C: United States Institute Of Peace.
- Stanton, G. (1998). The 8 Stages of Genocide. New Haven: Yale University Center for International and Area Studies.
- Collier, P. et al. (2003). Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy. Washington: The World Bank
