Course overview
This course will examine processes of peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding in a wide variety of conflict situations. It explores a range of practical strategies for creating peace through dialogue, development, national reconciliation interventions and international stabilisation processes. Topics include addressing drivers of conflict, de-escalation, the roles of key conflict actors; decommissioning of weapons and demobilisation of combatants; economic and socio-cultural reconstruction; the rebuilding of the education and health sectors, gender issues and peacebuilding at a community level. The principles of peacemaking are applied in this course to resolve or transform conflict at both the macro and micro levels, including interpersonal, inter-group and intra-national conflicts, and also international conflicts. As part of the professional development associated with this course, student actively build skills for managing, resolving or transforming conflict by working on strategies that are designed to stimulate positive change.