| CODE | DST5214 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Ethnic and Cultural Factors in Conflict Resolution | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for the Study and Practice of Conflict Resolution | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit explores the role of culture in the genesis, structuring, and resolution of processes of conflict within and between groups. Special attention is given to ethnicity and other sub-cultural markers of identity in complex social systems as both the generators and outcomes of conflict. Students examine the relevance of these variables to the success or failure of conflict resolution. The study-unit considers case studies drawn from a variety of cultural and social settings. The study-unit also discusses modern critiques of the culture concept with special reference to conflict analysis and resolution. List of Required Text Books - Avruch, Kevin, Culture and Conflict Resolution, USIP Press, 1998. [CCR] - Avruch, Kevin, Peter Black, and Joe Scimecca, Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Praeger, 1998. [CR] - Cohen, Raymond, Negotiating Across Cultures, USIP Press, 1997. [NC] - Malkki, Liisa, Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, University of Chicago Press, 1995. [PE] - Goodale, Mark, Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism, Stanford University Press, 2009. [DoM] |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | George Mason University is responsible for this study-unit. | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Richard Rubenstein |
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