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Conflict Analysis: Approaches and Cases

Course code

RIR7013.YK

old course code

RIR7013

Course title in Estonian

Konflikti analüüs: lähenemised ja juhtumid

Course title in English

Conflict Analysis: Approaches and Cases

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The course focuses on a sub-field of International Relations, conflict studies, and introduces a wide range of theoretical approaches to conflict as well as the application of these theories in the world of practice, covering the post-WII period and particularly the post-Cold War era.

Brief description of the course

This course gives the tools needed to think of peace and
violence in more complex terms. That means that our
explorations start with the phenomenon of gendered
continuum of violence, which means that important links
between peace and conflict are studied, recognising that
conflicts affect us differently depending on our situation and
context. Starting from feminist peace and conflict studies
scholarship to think how and why conflicts take place, how we
can study conflicts and why our starting points matter, how we
can prevent and respond to conflicts and how we can foster
peace – means that conflict analysis as such is problematised
from the start and more diverse actors’ experience is taken
seriously. During this course the students will familarise
themselves with different approaches to conflicts, the key
terms, concepts and perspectives. In turn they will be able to
orientate in peace and conflict studies literature, analytically
approach conflicts and further their critical thinking.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has a systematic understanding and knowledge of the principal terms of peace and conflict studies;
- is able to write critical conflict analyses after independently finding, gathering and evaluating information and texts related to peace and conflict;
- has an efficient grasp on various approaches to peace and conflict in global politics.

Teacher

Birgit Poopuu

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