Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : SBUI630 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 3 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 3 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 5 |
The aim of this course is to enable students to critically engage with contemporary theoretical approaches, current debates, and emerging research agendas in Peace and Conflict Studies. The course seeks to develop students’ ability to analyse concepts such as conflict, peace, justice, and reconciliation from critical and interdisciplinary perspectives, evaluate existing scholarship, and undertake original academic research in the field.
This course examines the theoretical transformations, critical approaches, and emerging research agendas that have shaped Peace and Conflict Studies in the post-Cold War era. Topics include the shift from conflict resolution to conflict transformation, the liberal peace paradigm and its critiques, critical and postcolonial peace studies, local and hybrid peace approaches, reconciliation and transitional justice, human security, environmental peace, and the technological transformation of conflict. The course encourages students to critically engage with contemporary scholarship in Peace and Conflict Studies and to incorporate current theoretical debates into their own research.
| 1. | Critically analyse contemporary theoretical approaches and emerging research agendas in Peace and Conflict Studies that have developed in the post-Cold War era. |
| 2. | Evaluate and compare liberal peace, critical peace, postcolonial peace, and hybrid peace approaches from a comparative and analytical perspective. |
| 3. | Interpret the relationships among peace, conflict, justice, reconciliation, and human security through diverse theoretical frameworks. |
| 4. | Apply advanced theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of contemporary conflict and peace processes. |
| 5. | Formulate original research questions and design independent scholarly research that contributes to current debates in Peace and Conflict Studies. |
| 1. | Galtung, J. (1996). Peace by peaceful means: Peace and conflict, development and civilization. SAGE Publications. |
| 2. | Mac Ginty, R. (2011). International peacebuilding and local resistance: Hybrid forms of peace. Palgrave Macmillan. |
| 3. | Mac Ginty, R. (2021). Everyday peace: How ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict. Oxford University Press. |
| 4. | Paris, R. (2004). At war's end: Building peace after civil conflict. Cambridge University Press. |
| 5. | Richmond, O. P. (2005). The transformation of peace. Palgrave Macmillan. |
| 6. | Richmond, O. P. (2011). A post-liberal peace. Routledge. |
| 7. | Richmond, O. P. (2014). Failed statebuilding: Intervention, the state, and the dynamics of peace formation. Yale University Press. |
| 8. | Ramsbotham, O., Woodhouse, T., & Miall, H. (2024). Contemporary conflict resolution (5th ed.). Polity Press. |
| 9. | Lederach, J. P. (2003). The little book of conflict transformation. Good Books. |
| 10. | Jabri, V. (2007). War and the transformation of global politics. Palgrave Macmillan. |
| 11. | Bercovitch, J. (Ed.). (2011). Theory and practice of international mediation: Selected essays. Routledge. |
| 12. | Zakaria, F. (2008). The post-American world. W. W. Norton. |
| 13. | Volkan, V. D. (1997). Bloodlines: From ethnic pride to ethnic terrorism. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
| 14. | Volkan, V. D. (2020). Large-group psychology: Racism, societal divisions, narcissistic leaders and who we are now. Phoenix Publishing House. |
| 15. | Volkan, V. D. (2013). Enemies on the couch: A psychopolitical journey through war and peace. Pitchstone Publishing. |
| 16. | Zartman, I. W. (2000). Ripeness: The hurting stalemate and beyond. In P. C. Stern & D. Druckman (Eds.), International conflict resolution after the Cold War (pp. 225–250). National Academy Press. |
| 17. | Zartman, I. W. (Ed.). (2007). Peacemaking in international conflict: Methods and techniques (Revised ed.). United States Institute of Peace Press. |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %40 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 14 | 3 | 3 | 84 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 15 | 11 | 26 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 20 | 1 | 21 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 131 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | PÇ-6 | PÇ-7 | |
OÇ-1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
OÇ-2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
OÇ-3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
OÇ-4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
OÇ-5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |