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Title: Peace and Conflict Studies


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Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Master of Arts in Conflict Studies

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Master of Arts inConflict Studies
  • One year
  • Two semesters
  • Four courses
  • Fifteen credits for each course

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Master of Arts inConflict Studies
  • First course Global conflict scenarios
  • Second course Actors in contemporary conflicts
  • Third course Regional and transnational conflict
    patterns
  • Fourth course MA thesis

4
Global conflict scenarios
  • Present and future conflict patterns on a global
    scale
  • Comprehensive explanatory models

5
Actors incontemporary conflicts
  • Who does what in todays conflicts
  • Connections between different actors

6
Regional and transnational conflict patterns
  • Closer study of particular regional or
    transnational conflict patterns
  • Examples Cyprus, Caucasus, Middle East, Horn of
    Africa, terrorism, United States military
    interventions, peace enforcement, and so on
  • Individual profile (individual readings)

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MA thesis
  • Individual project
  • Investigation of conflict(s), scenario(s),
    conflict actor(s), and so on

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Master of Arts inConflict Studies
  • Global conflict scenarios macro-level of
    analysis
  • Actors in contemporary conflicts micro-level of
    analysis
  • Regional and transnational conflict patterns
    both macro- and micro-levels of analysis

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Master of Arts inConflict Studies
  • Global conflict scenarios models
  • Actors in contemporary conflicts networks
  • Regional and transnational conflict patterns
    developments

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Learning resources
  • Individual studies
  • Two introductory lectures
  • Seminars
  • Individual (oral and written) presentations
  • Thesis
  • Study groups

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Seminar
  • 20 min Presentation A
  • 25 min Discussion
  • 15 min Break
  • 20 min Presentation B
  • 25 min Discussion

12
Examination
  • Active and qualified seminar participation
  • Oral and written presentations
  • Thesis

13
Books
  • Agnew, John. 2003. Geopolitics Re-visioning
    World Politics. Second Edition. London and New
    York Routledge.
  • Appadurai, Arjun. 2006. Fear of Small Numbers An
    Essay on the Geography of Anger. Durham, North
    Carolina Duke University Press. På svenska
    Vredens geografi rädslan för de fåtaliga.
    Stockholm Tankekraft, 2007.

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Books
  • Davis, Mike. 2006. Planet of Slums. London and
    New York Verso Books. På svenska Slum
    världens storstäder. Lund A-Z förlag, 2007.
  • Devji, Faisal. 2005. Landscapes of the Jihad
    Militancy, Morality, Modernity. Ithaca, New York
    Cornell University Press.

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Books
  • Klare, Michael T. 2002. Resource Wars The New
    Landscape of Global Conflict. New York Henry
    Holt.
  • OMeara, Patrick, Howard D. Mehlinger, and
    Matthew Krain, eds. Roxana Ma Newman, managing
    ed. 2000. Globalization and the Challenges of a
    New Century A Reader. Indiana University Press.

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Journal articles
  • Chomsky, Noam. 2007. Imminent Crises Threats
    and Opportunities. Monthly Review 59(2) 1-19.
    Academic Search Elite EBSCO
  • Ferguson, Niall. 2006. The Next War of the
    World. Foreign Affairs 85(5)61-74. Google

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Journal articles
  • Gerges, Fawaz. 2007. Understanding the Many
    Faces of Islamism and Jihadism. Nieman Reports
    61(2)7-9. Academic Search Elite EBSCO

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Journal articles
  • Inoguchi, Takashi. 1999. Peering Into the Future
    by Looking Back The Westphalian, Philadelphian,
    and Anti-Utopian Paradigms. International
    Studies Review 1(2)173191. Blackwell Synergy

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Journal articles
  • McNeill, William H. 1995. The Changing Shape of
    World History. History and Theory, 34(2)8-26.
    JSTOR
  • Nye, Joseph S., Jr. 2003. The Velvet Hegemon
    How Soft Power Can Help Defeat Terrorism.
    Foreign Policy 13674-75. Academic Search Elite
    EBSCO

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Journal articles
  • Shepard, William E. 2003. Sayyid Qutbs Doctrine
    of Jÿhiliyya. International Journal of Middle
    East Studies 35521-545. Cambridge Journals
    Online

21
Journal articles
  • de Soto, Hernando. 1993. The Missing
    Ingredient. Economist 328(7828)8-12. Academic
    Search Elite EBSCO
  • Tsing, Anna. 2000. The Global Situation.
    Cultural Anthropology 15(3)327-360.
    AnthroSource

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Online texts
  • de Soto, Hernando. 1989. The Other Path, chapter
    1. New York Perseus Books. http//ild.org.pe
  • de Soto, Hernando. 2000. The Mystery of Capital,
    chapter 1. New York Basic Books.
    http//ild.org.pe

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Online texts
  • de Soto, Hernando. 2001. The Hidden Architecture
    of Capital. Institute for Liberty and Democracy
    http//ild.org.pe
  • Hannerz, Ulf. 2005. Geocultural Scenarios.
    Manuscript Course homepage or handout

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Week 36
  • Mon 070903 300-400 pm 323 Introduction
  • Wed 070905 100-300 pm 423 Introduction
    (contd.) / McNeill / Tsing
  • Fri 070907 100-300 pm 324 OMeara,
    Mehlinger, Krain Parts 1 and 2

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Week 37
  • Wed 070912 100-300 pm 324
  • 1A OMeara, Mehlinger, Krain Part 3
  • 1B OMeara, Mehlinger, Krain Part 4

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Week 37
  • Thu 070913 300-500 pm 508
  • 2A OMeara, Mehlinger, Krain Part 5
  • 2B OMeara, Mehlinger, Krain Part 6

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Week 38
  • Wed 070919 100-300 pm 324
  • 3A OMeara, Mehlinger, Krain Part 10
  • 3B Ferguson / Hannerz / Inoguchi / Nye

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Week 38
  • Thu 070920 300-500 pm 323
  • 4A OMeara, Mehlinger, Krain Part 8
  • 4B OMeara, Mehlinger, Krain Part 9

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Week 38
  • Fri 070921 100-300 pm 425
  • 5A de Soto 1989, 1993, 2000, 2001
  • 5B Davis Chapters 1-3

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Week 39
  • Tue 070925 100-300 pm 324
  • 6A Davis Chapters 4-6
  • 6B Davis Chapters 7-Epilogue
  • Thu 070927 100-300 pm 323
  • 7A Agnew Chapters 1-4
  • 7B Agnew Chapters 5-8

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Week 40
  • Wed 071003 100-300 pm 324
  • 8A Klare Introd.-Chapter 3
  • 8B Klare Chapters 4-6
  • Thu 071004 100-300 pm 104
  • 9A Klare Chapters 7-9
  • 9B Chomsky / Gerges / Shepard

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Week 41
  • Tue 071009 100-300 pm 324 Guest lecturer
    Catharina Raudvere
  • Thu 071011 300-500 pm 324 Guest lecturer
    Catharina Raudvere
    Devji

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Week 42
  • Tue 071016 100-300 pm 324
  • 10A Appadurai Chapters 1-3
  • 10B Appadurai Chapters 4-6
  • Thu 071018 300-500 pm 307
  • 11A Finals
  • 11B Finals

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Week 43
  • Thu 071025 100-300 pm 424
  • 12A Finals
  • 12B Finals
  • Fri 071026 100-300 pm 424
  • 13A Finals
  • 13B Finals

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Week 44
  • Wed 071031 100-300 pm 424
  • 14A Finals
  • 14B Finals
  • Thu 071101 100-300 pm 424
  • 15A Finals
  • 15B Finals

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Week 45
  • Wed 071107 100-300 pm 424
  • 16A Finals
  • 16B Finals
  • Thu 071108 100-300 pm 425
  • 17A Finals
  • 17B Finals

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Global conflict scenarios
  • Scenarios of global conflicts
  • History of the future
  • Stories of what happened in the future
  • Projection of the present into the future

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Oxford English Dictionary
  • scenario, n.
  • 2. A sketch, outline, or description of an
    imagined situation or sequence of events
  • esp. (a) a synopsis of the development of a
    hypothetical future world war, and hence an
    outline of any possible sequence of future
    events
  • (b) an outline of an intended course of action

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Global
  • Spatial concept (global space)
  • Not in every single place on the planet
  • But connections across global space
  • And global scope of analysis

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Conflict
  • Temporal concept (conflict as process)
  • Not as universal conflict dynamic
  • But as historically specific development
  • And socially organized activity

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Conflicts
SPACE
TIME
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Historical examples
  • Colonialism
  • Second World War
  • Cold War

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Cold War
  • Global conflict scenario of bipolarity
  • East-West conflict
  • Nuclear stalemate
  • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
  • Proxy wars
  • Whos ours, whos theirs?

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Cold War
  • Ideological conflict
  • Ideology scheme of ideas that justifies actions
  • Orthodoxy belief in doctrines held to be correct
  • Heterodoxy opinion or doctrine at variance with
    what is received as true or right

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Global conflict scenarios
  • Based in ideologies and orthodoxies
  • Start from implicit assumptions about truth and
    morality (right and wrong)
  • Usually center around some core value (freedom,
    God, the people, etc)
  • Global dimension and globality

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Globality
  • Consciousness of the world as a whole
  • Age of discovery
  • Disputation at Valladolid, 1550-1551 (Bartolomé
    de Las Casas vs. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda)
  • Humanity-globality

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Media of globality
  • Maps
  • Travel writings
  • Historiography (world history)

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Historiography
  • Herodotus and Sima Qian (Ssu-ma Chen) first
    historiographers who tried to write a general
    history
  • Thucydides historical monograph of the
    Peloponnesian War
  • Jewish and Christian historiography world
    history as unfolding of Gods plan for humankind

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Historiography
  • Chinese historiography the rise, decay, and fall
    of dynasties
  • Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu historiography histories
    of divine intervention in human affairs

50
Italian Renaissance
  • Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini
    left out God, focused on human actions
  • The New World had to be accomodated in
    conventional historiography (did the inhabitants
    of the Americas descend from the sons of Noah?)

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The Enlightenment
  • Secular historiography humans as makers of
    history
  • Liberal historiography the sporadic but
    ineluctable advance of freedom Eurocentric
    historiography, legitimating colonialism

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First World War
  • First industrial war
  • Modern machines (signs of technological progress)
    crushing human bodies
  • Rupture in liberal historiography

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Cyclical historiography
  • Oswald Spengler The Decline of the West
  • Arnold Toynbee A Study of History
  • The rise, flowering, and fall of civilizations
    throughout history
  • World history

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William McNeill
  • World history as a history of cultural diffusion
  • Encounters with strangers as motor of history
  • Cosmopolitan historiography
  • The global ecumene
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