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PACS 201

Roots of Conflict, Violence, and Peace

Undergraduate

Winter 2022

Topics

  • Definitions of peace, conflict, and violence
  • Conflict transformation
  • War and nonviolent social change
  • Racial healing
  • Transformative justice
  • Structural and institutional change

Readings

  • The Little Book of Conflict Transformation
    John Paul Lederach · required
  • The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation and Transformation
    Tom DeWolf; Jodie Geddes · required
  • The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding: A Vision and Framework for Peace with Justice
    Lisa Schirch · required
  • Johan Galtung — Positive and Negative Peace.
    unspecified
  • Maire Dugan — A Nested Theory of Conflict.
    unspecified
Sources