PEACE, CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT: LOCAL-GLOBAL DYNAMICS

Catalog description

(Slashed with PACS 60005 ) This course explores the relationships between peace, conflict and development. It covers key concepts, theories and approaches to understanding and addressing the nexus between peace, conflict and development. Students critically review relevant theoretical and policy literature and apply them to real-world case studies as part of participatory skill-building exercises. The course starts with an overview of essential development theories, models and actors of development practice. It examines relevant scholarly and policy debates of conflict-development links; the political economy of conflict and (uneven) development; relevant security issues (e.g., small arms proliferation, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), security sector reform (SSR)); the relationships between natural resources, livelihoods and conflict; the roles of gender and youth in conflict and development; measures of effective development in conflict-affected societies; and development alternatives, as well as emerging critical debates about alternatives to development.