POLn4108 Cross-Cultural Negotiation

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Věra Stojarová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. David Mrva (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Věra Stojarová, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Pospíšilová
Supplier department: Division of Politology – Department of Political Science – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Fri 28. 2. 10:00–15:40 U41, Fri 13. 3. 10:00–15:40 U41, Fri 3. 4. 10:00–15:40 U41, Fri 17. 4. 10:00–15:40 U41
Prerequisites
Students should be enrolled in master degree preferably in security studies, international relations, political science.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
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
Learning outcomes
- students should be able provide historical background to conflicts in Northern Ireland, Izrael/Palestine, Guatemala, Nagorno Karabakh. - students should be ably to analyze conflicts in Northern Ireland, Izrael/Palestine, Guatemala, Nagorno Karabakh. - students should be able to prove their negotiation skills in conflict management - students should be able to present their solution of the conflict
Syllabus
  • Bloc A 13.3. 2018 9:45- 15:00 Room 41 Topic: Religion and Nationalism in Northern Ireland Bloc B 20.3.2018 9:45- 15:00 Room 41 Topic: Indigenous rights in Guatemala Bloc C 17.4. 2018 9:45- 15:00, room 41 Topic: Water on the West Bank Bloc D 15.5. 2018 9:45- 15:00, room 43 Topic: Armenia/Azerbaijan/Nagorno Karabach
Literature
  • The required reading will be provided in the intormation system.
  • KOKCHAROV, Alex, Alex MELIKISHVILI and Lilit GEVORGYAN. Russia's Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Plan Poses Renewed Armenia-Azerbaijan War Risks. Jane's Intelligence Weekly. 2016, vol. 8, No 37. info
  • SAPAROV, Arsène. From conflict to autonomy in the Caucasus : the Societ Union and the making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh. 1st pub. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015, xv, 200. ISBN 9780415658027. info
  • Israel/Palestine and the politics of a two-state solution. Edited by Thomas G. Mitchell. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2013, v, 210 p. ISBN 9781476603865. info
  • BALAYEV, Bahruz. The right to self-determination in the South Caucasus : Nagorno Karabakh in context. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013, xiv, 247. ISBN 9780739178270. info
  • Israel or Palestine?is the two-state solution already dead? : a political and military history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Edited by Hasan Afif El-Hasan. New York: Algora Pub., 2010, x, 241 p. ISBN 9780875867946. info
  • The politics of Northern Ireland. Edited by Joanne McEvoy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008, vii, 194 p. ISBN 0748625011. info
  • Ladinos with Ladinos, Indians with Indiansland, labor, and regional ethnic conflict in the making of Guatemala. Edited by Renâe Reeves. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006, viii, 249. ISBN 9780804752138. info
  • PAPPÉ, Ilan. A history of modern Palestine : one land, two peoples. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xxi, 333. ISBN 0521556325. URL info
  • The troubles in Ballybogoinmemory and identity in Northern Ireland. Edited by William F. Kelleher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004, xiv, 257 p. ISBN 9780472026364. info
  • Peace building in Northern Ireland, Israel and South Africatransition, transformation and reconciliation. Edited by Colin Knox - Pâadraic Quirk. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, 258 p. ISBN 0333681894. info
Teaching methods
Simulation of the conflict management
Assessment methods
Students will pass the course, if he/she reaches 32 points out of 50 maximum. Your final grade will be based on: - Drafting the position papers - max. 25 points - Taking part in the simulations – max. 25 points Therefore 6,25 points per position paper and 6,25 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
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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