Peace and Conflict Studies II

Course Code: FK102E

Institution:

Department of Global Political Studies

Revision:

8.1

For students admitted spring 2012  

Other set versions

Approval

The course was established 31 May 2002.
This course syllabus (version 8.1) was approved 08 December 2011 by the Board of Studies at Faculty of Culture and Society.
The syllabus is valid from 16 January 2012. Replacement for course syllabus ratified 26 October 2011.

Education level

First cycle

Entry requirements

Prerequisite courses for this course are: Passed courses: FK101E-Peace and Conflict Studies I.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

After finishing the course, the student:

• can demonstrate a broader understanding of analytical methods relating to peace and conflict studies;
• can demonstrate in-depth understanding of the causes, dynamics and resolution of armed conflicts;
• can demonstrate knowledge of current conflict scenarios and
• can show knowledge of Malmö University’s perspectives: environment, gender, and migration and ethnicity.

Applying knowledge and understanding

After finishing the course, the student:

• can demonstrate the ability to investigate armed conflicts independently by employing the analytical concepts relevant to this field of study;
• can demonstrate the ability to carry out a conflict analysis within given time frames;
• can demonstrate a critical and scientific approach to organized violence and
• can apply knowledge of Malmö University’s perspectives to issues pertaining to organised violence and conflict resolution.

Making judgments and communication skills

After finishing the course, the student:

• can show the specialised ability to independently analyse and critically reflect upon research development within the field of peace and conflict studies and
• has the specialised ability to independently evaluate their knowledge of peace and conflict studies and identify their need for further competency within the subject.

Assessments

Peace and Conflict Theory is assessed through a formal exam, 7,5 credits, and a take home exam, 7,5 credits. Method is assessed by means of take home exams, a number of other written assignments and oral presentations. The Project Work is examined by means of an independent conflict analysis in group.

Exams and assignments should be completed within given dead-lines. Written exam and assignments should be linguistically correct and meet normal requirements for source and reference management. Detailed instructions for exams and grading criteria are provided at the start of the module


Students who do not pass the regular course exams have the minimum of two re-sit opportunities. Re-sits follow the same form as the original exams, apart from re-sits for group work, which take the form of individual written and oral assignments.


Course content

The course consists of the following modules:

Peace and Conflict Theory (15 credits)
Research Methods (7,5 credits)
Project Work (7,5 credits)

The first part of the term (15 credits) comprises an introduction to conflict theory wherein causes and development of conflicts as well as their solutions are analysed. Efforts to preclude conflicts are also evaluated.

The second part of the term contains a course dealing with the construction and evaluation of conflict scenarios as well as an independent conflict analysis in the form of a written assignment. Supervision of this assignment includes instruction in methodology.


Learning activities

Lectures, study groups, independent learning, seminars, oral presentations and essays. Essays are supervised and a certain amount of instruction on methodology is included in the supervision.


Grading system

Fail (U), Pass (G) or Pass with Distinction (VG). ECTS grading system can be used on students demand.


Reading list and other media

Peace and Conflict Theory 15 hp

• Appiah, K. A. (1996) “Against National Culture”, //English in Africa//, Vol. 23, No. 1.
• Azar, E. (1990) //The Management of Protracted Social Conflict//, Dartmouth. Approx 30 pages.
• Barnett, J. (2007) “Environmental Security and Peace”, //Journal of Human Security//, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.4-16
• Call, C. T. & V. Wyeth, eds. (2008), Building states to build peace, Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Connell, R., 2011, //Sydteori. Samhällsvetenskapens globala dynamik//, Studentlitteratur. (2007) //Southern Theory. The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science//, Polity Press. Approx 270 pages.
• Clausewitz, Carl von (1991) //Om kriget, //Stockholm: Bonniers (valda delar som anges av lärare). Approx 100 pages.
• Galtung, J. (1969) “Violence, peace, and peace research” //Journal of Peace Research//, Vol. 6, No. 3., pp. 167-191.
• Galtung, J. (1990) “Cultural peace” Journal of Peace Research, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 291-305.
• Geschiere, Peter and Francis Nyamnjoh. (2000) ”Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging,” i //Public Culture//, Volume 12, No. 2, pp. 423-452
• Hettne, B. (1983) “Peace and Development: Contradictions and Compatabilities” //Journal of Peace Research//, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 329-342.
• Hobbes, T. (1651/2004) //Leviathan, //Göteborg: Daidalos. Approx 140 pages.
• Jeong, Ho-Won (2010) //Conflict management and resolution//, Routledge, London. Approx 225 pages.
• Johnson, R. A. (2011) ”Refugee Camp Security: Decreasing Vulnerability Through Demographic Controls”, i //Journal of Refugee Studies//, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 23-46.
• Jones, A., 2006, “Straight as a Rule, Heteronormativity, Gendercide, and the Noncombatant Male” // Men and masculinities//, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 451-469
• Kaldor, Mary (2007) //New and Old Wars//, Stanford University Press
• Kant, I. (2006) //Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History//, Yale University Press. Approx 125 pages.
• Kirkegaard, A. (2007) ”It coulden’t be anything innocent: Negotiating gender in patriarchal-racial spaces”, i Kitzio Muchemwa & Robert Muponde, //Manning the nation. Father Figures in Zimbabwean literature and society//, Weaver Press/Jacana Media, Harare/Cape Town. Approx 12 pages.
• Kinsella, D. och C. L. Carr (2007) //The Morality of War//, Lynne Rienner Publishers. Approx 400 pages.
• Le Billon, P. (2001) ”The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts”, in //Political Geography//, Vol. 20, pp. 561-584.
• Lederach, J. P. (1997, eller senare) //Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies//. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press. Approx 180 pages.
• Mazurana, D., Raven-Roberts, A. and Parpart J. (2005) Gender, Conflict and Peacekeeping. USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC. (Selected parts)
• Mamdani. M. (2002) ‘African states, citizenship and war: a case.study’, in //International Affairs//, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 493-506.
• Mamdani. M. (2007) ‘The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency, //London Review of Books//,// //Vol. 29, No. 5.
• Marr, Steve (2012)” 'They Treat Us Like Dogs': Demographic Claustrophobia and the Struggle for Space on the Streets of Gaborone, Botswana, //Forthcoming//
• Mbembe, Achille and Sarah Nuttall, ”Writing the World from an African Metropolis”, i //Public Culture//,// //Fall 2004 16(3): 347-372.
• Momsen, J. (2010) Gender and Development. London and New York: Routledge. (Selected parts)
• Paffenholz, T., ed. (2010) Civil society & peacebuilding, Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Ramsbotham, O., H. Miall och T. Woodhouse (2006)// Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflicts.// Second edition. Oxford: Polity Press.
• //Security Studies. An Introduction// (2008) Williams, P. D., (red.) London: Routledge.
• Simic’, O. (2010) Does the presence of women really matter? Towards combatting male sexual violence in peacekeeping operations. In International Peacekeeping (2010) Vol 17, Issue 2, p 188 – 199.
• Simone, Abdou Maliq. (2004) ”People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg”, i// Public Culture//, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 407-429
• Sorens, J. (2011) ”Mineral production, territory, and ethnic rebellion: The role of rebel constituencies”, i //Journal of peace Research//, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 571-585.
• Swanson, Maynard. (1977) ”The Sanitation Syndrome: Bubonic Plague and Urban Native Policy in the Cape Colony, 1900-1909”, i //The Journal of African History//, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 387-410.
• Tsu, Sun. (2010) //The Art of War//. Capstone Publishing. Approx 140 pages.
• UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme). (2009) //From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment//, United Nations. Approx 40 pages.
• Vanderheiden, S. (2011) ”Globalizing Responsibility for Climate Change”, i Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp 65-84.

Literature comprising 500 mages might be added.

Reference literature :

• Anderlini, S. N. (2007) Women building Peace: What they do, why it matters. USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, INC.
• Baaz, M. E. & M. Stern (2010) //The Complexity of Violence: A critical analysis of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)//, Nordic Africa Institute
• Cabrera-Balleza, M. and Johanson, T. (2009) United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820: A Preliminary Assessment of the Challenges and Opportunities.
• Harrington, C. (2003) Peacekeeping and Prostitution in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo
• Knutsson, B. (2009) //The Intellectual History of Development: Towards a Widening Potential Reportoir//, Perspectives No. 13, School of Global Studies, Göteborg. Approx 80 pages.
• Kronsell, A. and Svedberg E. (2001) The Duty to Protect: Gender in the Swedish Practice of Conscription. In Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 36, Issue 2, P 153 – 176
• Large, J. (1997) “Disintegration Conflicts and the Restructuring of Masculinity” //Gender and Development//, Vol. 5, No. 2
• Mamdani. M. (2002) “Good Muslim/Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism”, in //American Anthropologist//, Vol. 104, Issue 3, pp. 776-775.
• Rai, S. (2002) ”Gender, Nationalism and ’Nation-Building’. Discourses of development”, i S. Rai, //Gender and the Political Economy of Development//, Polity Press. Approx 30 pages.
• Stoecker, S. and Shelly, L. (2005) Human Trafficking and Transnational Crime: Eurasian and American Perspectives. USA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Whitworth, S. (2007) Men, Militarism & UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, INC.
• World Bank (2001) Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice. (Selected parts)


Research Methods, (7,5 credits)

• **Gee, James Paul (2011) //An Introduction to Discourse analysis//, Routledge
• May, T. (2001) //Social Research//, Berkshire: Open University Press
• Nealon, Jeffrey & Searls Giroux, S. (2003) //The Theory Toolbox Critical Concepts for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences,// Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Articles and other texts of 300 pages may be added.

Project Work (7,5 credits)

• **//The SAGE Dictionary of Social Research Methods //(2006//) //Jupp, V. (red.) London: Sage Publications
• Walliman, N. (2007) //Social Research Methods//, Los Angeles: Sage Publications

Referenslitteratur

• Nealon, J och Searls Giroux, S. (2003) //The Theory Toolbox Critical Concepts for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,// Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Course evaluation

All students are offered an opportunity to give oral or written feedback at the end of the course. A summary of the results will be made available on the school’s web-pages. The students are also given a possibility to offer feedback for each module.

Student participation takes place through the course council.