Development, Conflict and Critical Human Security.

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Development, Conflict and Critical Human Security is premised on the conviction that human security, international development and is premised on the conviction that human security, international development and the presence of peace/conflict are interrelated and mutually constitutive. As such the course reflects a changing world in which western notions of human security, peace-building and socioeconomic progress translate differently into local settings before, during and after conflict. Students will gain a foundation in the principles of human security and international development and then apply them to pre and post-conflict settings, studying the processes of democratization, the militarization of aid, and transitional justice, particularly as they play out in weak or fragile states. Particular attention is paid to vulnerable populations caught in the middle of these changes or even created by them, such as child soldiers and refugees.