Peace and Conflict Studies: 2008-2009
Description
The goal of the bi-college concentration is to help focus students’ coursework around specific areas of interest to peace and conflict studies.
The concentration is composed of a six-course cluster centering around conflict and cooperation within and between nations. Of these six courses, at least two and no more than three may be in the student’s major. The peace and conflict studies concentration draws upon the long-standing interest in war, conflict and peacemaking, and social justice, as well as questions associated with the fields of anthropology, economics, history, political science, social psychology, and sociology. It draws on these fields for theoretical understandings of matters such as bargaining, internal causes of conflict, cooperative and competitive strategies of negotiation, intergroup relations, and the role of institutions in conflict management.
Students meet with the coordinator in the spring of their sophomore year to work out a plan for the concentration. All concentrators are required to take three core courses: the introductory course, General Programs 111a; either Political Science 206 or General Programs 322; and Political Science 347. It is advised that concentrators complete at least two of these three courses by the end of their junior year.
Students are required to take three additional courses in consultation with the coordinator, working out a plan that focuses this second half of their concentration regionally, conceptually, or around a particular substantive problem. These courses might include: international conflict and resolution, ethnic conflict in general or in a specific region of the world (e.g. South Africa, the Middle East, Northern Ireland); a theoretical approach to the field, such as nonviolence, bargaining, or game theory; an applied approach, such as reducing violence among youth, the arts and peacemaking, community mediation, or labor relations.
Faculty
Coordinator Marc Howard Ross, Political Science
Visiting Assistant Professor Tamara Neuman (on leave Fall 2008)
Courses
COURSES OFFERED AT BRYN MAWR
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ANTH B111/POLS B111 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
ANTH B200/HIST B200 The Atlantic World: Indians, Europeans, and Africans
- ANTH B206/POLS B206 Conflict and Conflict Management: A Cross-cultural Approach
- ANTH B235/POLS B235 Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies
- ANTH B347/POLS B347 Advanced Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Utopias, Dystopias, and Peace
- HIST B126 Immigration and Ethnicity
- POLS B141 Introduction to International Politics
- POLS B316 The Politics of Ethnic, Racial, and National Groups
- POLS B358/PSYCH B358 The Political Psychology of Ethnic Conflict
COURSES OFFERED AT HAVERFORD
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ENGL H286 Arts of the Possible: Literature and Social Justice Movements
HIST H240 History and Principles of Quakerism
- ICPR H111 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
- ICPR H281 Violence and Public Health
- ICPRH 301 Human Rights: Development and International Activism
- ICPR H301 Human Rights: Development and International Activism
- POLS H151 International Politics
- POLS H235 African Politics
- POLS H242 Women in War and Peace
- POLS 256 The Evolution of the Jihadi Movement
- POLS 357 Conflict in the Middle East
- POLS 358 The War on Terrorism
- SOCL H235 Class, Race, and Education