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| Udgave: |
Forår 2013 Samf |
| ECTS points: |
10 ects |
| Punkter: |
10 ects |
Semester: |
Forår 2013 |
| Institutter: |
Sociologi |
| Studieordning: |
Modul: Valgfag BA+MA |
| Kontaktpersoner: |
Professor Yosef Kamal, E-mail yk@soc.ku.dk |
| Skema- oplysninger: |
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| Skema- oplysninger: |
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The course will meet weekly for a two-hour. The format of the course is primarily lectures and structured discussion. In order to foster a dialogical learning environment, students are required to have read the course material prior to arriving in class. |
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MAIN AIMS OF THE MODULE:
This course is designed to help students make sense of these important developments and debates in world politics. Students will become acquainted with numerous theories and approaches to studying nationalism, ethnic conflict, and conflict management/resolution, and then we will utilize and "test" these theories on several salient cases. The goal, ultimately, is for students to be able to use theories and approaches to explain particular conflicts and hopefully be able to see ways that conflicts can be solved.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course students who work hard should:
• Have a clear understanding of the varied manifestations of ethnic conflict and political violence
around the world.
• Be familiar with the major theoretical debates and literature relevant to the study of ethnicity,
nationalism, ethnopolitical violence and conflict
• Be familiar with the major theoretical debates and literature relevant to the study of conflict
resolution/management (national and international)
• Be able to apply theoretical analysis and demonstrate critical independent thought in discussion
and debate about key issues relevant to the study of ethnic conflict, political violence and conflict
resolution/management.
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| Indhold: |
Although violence and group conflict is hardly new, over the past two decades that has followed the end of the Cold War, nationalism and ethnic conflict has replaced ideological competition as the main source of strife within and between nation-states. Violence between ethnic groups, religious communities, and clans has shaken countries across the globe. From Russia to Yugoslavia, from Sri Lanka to Indonesia, from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Congo, most of the violent conflicts taking place in the world today are framed in cultural terms, as ethnic, nationalist, or religious. In many cases, these conflicts have spilled over the borders of states, threatening regional security and, some scholars argue, even world order. Even in the supposed "nation-states" of the "First World," where populations were once thought to be unified by a common national identity, cultural conflict has emerged as a major political issue (e.g. separatist movements in Canada, UK & Spain). Throughout the world, minority groups have become increasingly assertive, demanding recognition and rights, while the powerful, seeking to protect their positions, have responded with repression and violence. At the same time, international relations have increasingly been shaped by what Samuel Huntington famously termed as the “Clash of Civilization.” Yet, other argued it is poorly understood and instead termed the rise of religious movements/religious dimensions of political movements and violence as the “Clash of Fundamentalism.”
The increasing frequency and deadliness of nationalist conflict at the international and the intrastate level, from mass expulsions to state-sponsored genocide, has prompted international and humanitarian interventions that have challenged time-honoured norms of state behaviour and its integrity. However, despite widespread recognition amongst intellectuals and policymakers of the virulent resurgence of nationalism, there is a widespread lack of consensus on the meaning and origins of, as well as the management strategies for dealing with, nationalist conflict.
Tentative Course Outline:
Unit 1: Introduction Unit: Understanding Conflicts and Intrastate Wars
Unit 2: Introduction and Definitions: Ethnie, Nation and Nationalism
Unit 3: Territory, State Formation in the Modern World and Internal Conflict
Unit 4: Competing Theories of Nationalism/Identity and Conflict:
Unit 5: The Causes of Intrastate Wars I: Structural and Political Factors
Unit 6: The Causes of Intrastate Wars II: Economic/Resource Conflicts (Greed or Grievances)
Unit 7: Religion, Nationalism and Political Violence
Unit 8: Democratisation and the Rise of Nationalist Violence
Unit 9: Conflict Resolution: Definitions, Foundations and Theoretical Approaches
Unit 10: Domestic Strategies I: Genocide, Integration and Assimilation
Unit 11: Domestic Strategies II: National-Self-Determination/ Territorial Partition and Secession
Unit 12: Domestic Strategies III: Federalism, Consociationalism/Powersharing
Unit 13: Conflict Management and Resolution: International Community’s
Involvement/Humanitarian Intervention and Peacekeeping
Unit 14: Post-Conflict Peace-building: The Political Dimension and Reconciliation (Justice Vs.
Forgiveness & Reconciliation)
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| Lærebøger: |
Examination requirement app. 800 pages
Requirement readings/syllabus will be distributed during the first session.
Compendium can be purchased at the Akademisk Boghandel, CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 7, at the beginning of the semester.
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| Tilmelding: |
Kursustilmelding finder sted på selvbetjeningen på KUnet i periode 15. november - 1. december 2012 – ved kursustilmeldingen bliver man automatisk tilmeldt eksamen.
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Please note: Signing up for courses and exams takes place in the period from November 15 - December 1, 2012. When you sign up for courses you are automatically signed up for exam.
International students must sign up by filling in an application form which you find here: http://sociologi.ku.dk/english/courses/
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| Eksamensform: |
Efter tilmelding til kurset er man automatisk tilmeldt eksamen. Er der flere eksamensformer skal man selv vælge eksamensform på selvbetjeningen på KUnet.
Til dette kursus er knyttet følgende eksamensformer:
• Free written take-home essay
• Oral exam based upon a synopsis
Assesment: The exams are marked acccording to the 7-points-scala
Examiner: Internal examiner.
Free written take-home essay:
Group/individual:. The Free written take-home essay may be written individually or by a group (max. 4 persons)
Size: An Free written take-home essay of maximum 15 pages of 2400 characters each page. If written by a group, the essay may be 7½ pages of 2400 characters each page longer per additional student.
Attention: When handing in as a group, the contribution of each student must be pointed out
Synopsis:
An oral exam based upon a topic chosen by the individual student
Group/individual: Individual
Size: A synopsis of maximum 3 pages of 2400 characters. The synopsis may be handed in as a group. However, the oral exam is on individual basis. The synopsis itself is ment as a discussion paper and does not enter into the assesment
Handing in of papers:
Deadline for handing in essay/synopsis
12.00 o’clock in the secretariat (16.1.26) - please click on the link below, to see the submission dates.
Deadline for aflevering af skriftlige opgaver/handing in papers
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| Kursus hjemmeside: |
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| Bemærkninger: |
BA-level and MA-level (Engelsk)
BA-Undergraduates and MA- students can sign up for this course
Kurset fungerer også som liniefag for specialiseringsretningen: Politisk Sociologi
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| Pensum: |
Will be added later |
| Undervisnings- sprog: |
Kun engelsk
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| Sidst redigeret: |
19/3-2013 |