Political Violence

(7.5 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course analyzes what drives violence in deeply divided societies with particular emphasis on what happens at the grassroots and between communities. Broad themes include: the understanding of the recurrent and (often) intractable nature of political violence in deeply divided societies, the challenges facing both top-down and bottom-up attempts to build peace in deeply divided societies, and the understanding of the current state of theoretical debate about how communal identities and conflict dynamics may or may not be inter-related.