PS 402 - Violent & Nonvlnt Conflict Res

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Western Connecticut State University

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Description:

The course examines the major theories of violent and nonviolent conflict resolution, and their applications in the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries, including a variety of conflict management perspectives, and the techniques of dispute intervention that flow from them. Case studies may include the works of Mahatma Gandhi, Johan Galtung, and Martin Luther King Jr. for nonviolent and Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx and Hans Morgenthau for violent conflict resolution. The outcomes of these two forms of government and citizen action will be analyzed based on their impact on individual, group and state objectives. Learning approaches include discussions, lecture, case study and analysis and simulation. Spring semester of odd numbered year. The course examines the major theories of violent and nonviolent conflict resolution, and their applications in the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries, including a variety of conflict management perspectives, and the techniques of dispute intervention that flow from them. Case studies may include the works of Mahatma Gandhi, Johan Galtung, and Martin Luther King Jr. nonviolent and Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx and Hans Morgenthau for violent conflict resolution. The outcomes of these two forms of government and citizen action will be analyzed based on their impact on individual, group and state objectives. Learning approaches include discussions, lectures, case study and analysis and simulation. Spring semester of odd numbered year. The course examines the major theories of violent and nonviolent conflict resolution, and their applications in the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries, including a variety of conflict management perspectives, and the techniques of dispute intervention that flow from them. Case studies may include the works of Mahatma Gandhi, Johan Galtung, and Martin Luther King Jr. nonviolent and Niccolo Machiavelli, Karl Marx and Hans Morgenthau for violent conflict resolution. The outcomes of these two forms of government and citizen action will be analyzed based on their impact on individual, group and state objectives. Learning approaches include discussions, lecture, case study and analysis and simulation. Spring semester of odd-numbered years. Prerequisite: PS 100 or PS 104 or SS 401 and junior standing, or permission of the instructor.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wcsu.edu

Phone Number:

(203) 837-8200

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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