Contemporary Global Conflict: Nonviolent and Violent Resistance and Repression

Catalog description

Examines the academic and practice literatures on nonviolent and violent protest, armed resistance, and different forms of domestic and transnational state repression. The material and discussions will cover classic theoretical and empirical works, and also cutting edge research and thinking about resistance and repression accounting for new technologies and the evolving global environment for human rights and accountability. The course is designed to introduce students to critical works on resistance and repression, and to prepare them for their own research or work in activism or policy settings.