BSSn4490 Conflict Resolution

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2021
Rozsah
0/2/0. 7 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
doc. PhDr. Věra Stojarová, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Mgr. Jiří Němec (cvičící)
Bojana Zoric (cvičící)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Věra Stojarová, Ph.D.
Katedra politologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Lucie Pospíšilová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Oddělení politologie – Katedra politologie – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Pá 12. 3. 10:00–15:40 M117, Pá 26. 3. 10:00–15:40 M117, Pá 9. 4. 10:00–15:40 M117, Pá 23. 4. 10:00–15:40 M117
Předpoklady
The course is aimed at the students enrolled in the Political Science/Security Studies programme. The course is valued with 7 credits. The course consists of 4 seminar sessions while the pivotal point in the course play the simulations. The modules is organized online on zoom link https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/3822914089
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
1. Provide accurate historical and background information on the conflict and peacemaking efforts, and provide opportunities for students to engage with this history in a direct and realistic context 2. Stimulate and motivate student learning through active participation, as well as reading, writing, class discussion, and other forms of analysis and expression 3. Build students’ negotiation and conflict management skills by asking them to take on the roles of participants seeking to resolve a conflict through negotiation, with support and feedback as they prepare, conduct, and debrief the role play 4. Challenge students to find the links between the conflict presented in the role play and the conflict resolution steps presented in the Workable Peace Framework, and to apply them to other conflicts in history and in their own lives
Výstupy z učení
Conflict management
Osnova
  • Organisational meeting 5th March 12:00 CET via zoom: (approx. 20 minutes) Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/3822914089 Bloc A 12.3. 2021 10:00- 15:00 zoom link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/3822914089 Topic: Religion and Nationalism in Northern Ireland Reading (94pp) • Workable Peace. Religion and Nationalism in Northern Ireland. Harward Law School. Programme on Negotiation. (10 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097075/historical_background_n_ireland.pdf • Holloway, D. Understanding the Northern Ireland Conflict. Summary and Overview of the conflict and its origins. The community dialogue, critical issues series, volume three. 2005. (28 pages) • https://is.muni.cz/auth/dok/rfmgr.pl • Wolff, S. Conflict management in Northern Ireland. In: International Journal on Multicultural Societies, Vol. 4, No.1., UNESCO 2002. (30 pages) • https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097075/conflict_management_in_northern_ireland.pdf • Archick, Kristin. Northern Ireland. The Peace Process. Congressional Research Service 2015. (26 pages) Bloc B 26.3.2021 10:00- 15:00 zoom link https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/3822914089 Topic: Indigenous rights in Guatemala Reading: (264 pp) • Workable Peace. Indigenous Rights and Environment in Guatemala. Harward Law School. Programme on Negotiation. (12 pages) • https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097076/historical_background_guatemala.pdf • Plant, R. Indigenous Peoples and Poverty Reduction: A case study of Guatemala. 1998. (34 pages) • https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097076/guatemala-indigenous_1_.pdf • Inter-American Comission on Human Rights. Situation of HR in Guatemala: Diversity, Inequality and Exclusion. 2015. (220 pp) Bloc C 9.4. 2021 10:00- 15:00 zoom link https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/3822914089 Topic: Hebron Reading: (113 pp) • Harvard Law School: The future of Hebron. Workable peace: managing conflict in the Middle East. (25 pp) • Beinin, J. –Hajjar, L. Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Primer. MERIP 2014 (16 pages) • History of the Izraeli-Palestinian conflict. POV 2001. (10 pages) • Lintl, P. Actors in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Interests. Narratives and the Reciprocical effects of the occupation. SWP Berlin 2018. At https://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2018RP03_ltl.pdf. (64 pp) Bloc D 23.4. 2021 10:00- 15:00, zoom link https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/3822914089 Topic: Rwanda Genocide Literature: (235pp.) • Case instructions: Harvard Law School. Historical Background and General Instructions. Workable Peace: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide in post-colonial Africa. (14 pp). • SIDA: A Strategic conflict analysis for great lake region. 2004. (211 pages.)
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • PAPPÉ, Ilan. A history of modern Palestine : one land, two peoples. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xxi, 333. ISBN 0521556325. URL info
    doporučená literatura
  • Complexities and dangers of remembering and forgetting in Rwanda. Edited by Olivier Nyirubugara. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2013, 176 p. ISBN 9789088901607. info
  • Developments in customary international lawtheory and the practice of the International Court of Justice and the international ad hoc criminal tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia. Edited by Birgit Schlèutter. Boston, Mass.: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010, xxxvi, 369. ISBN 9789047431152. info
  • The Palestine-Israel conflicta basic introduction. Edited by Gregory Harms - Todd M. Ferry. 2nd ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pluto Press, 2008, xxiv, 255. ISBN 9781849643832. info
  • GUELKE, Adrian. A farewell to arms?: from 'long war' to long peace in Northern Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. info
Výukové metody
Simulations are used as the teaching methods throughout the whole module.
Metody hodnocení
Your final grade will be based on: - Drafting the papers - max. 16 points - Taking part in the simulations – max. 16 points - Final oral exam via zoom – max 18 points Therefore 4 points per paper and 4 per ACTIVE participation. Final classification will be made following these grades on the scale: A. 50 - 45 points B. 44 - 41points C. 40 - 38 points D. 37 - 35 points E. 34 - 32 points F. 31 and less points Students will pass the course, if he/she reaches 32 points out of 50 maximum.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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