Course Details
Country:
Spain
Institution:
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Course Title:
War, Peace, and Political Violence
Course Number:
17703
Course Description:
This course covers a wide range of topics in conflict research, including inter-state wars, civil wars, and causes and dynamics of political violence. Its main goal is to provide students with the conceptual and theoretical tools to think analytically about conflicts and political violence. Some of the questions we will explore are: Why do countries fight each other? What explains the outbreak of civil wars? Why and how civilians are killed during wars? What are the long-term consequences of conflicts? Introduction: the characteristic elements of violence
1. An attempt of definition and characterization of violence
2. Basic characters of violence as a general social phenomenon
3. Social sciences and the problem of violence: a preliminary approach
4. The theories of rational collective action and its historical application.
5. Violence in politics
6. Main violent archetypes
7. State and violence
8. War and peace between the nations: basic principles of polemology
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
CONF 397
Course URL:
https://raw.githack.com/franvillamil/syllabi/master/current/syllabus_war_peace_political_violence.pdf
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