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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College University-wide Liberal Arts Courses (Comprehensive Courses)
Course Code 多彩6/総合自由
Theme・Subtitle アジア諸国における紛争とその解決/Conflicts and Their Solutions in Asian Countries
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Fri.3・5502
Credit 2
Course Number CMP2631
Language English
Class Registration Method
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes ・2016年度以降1年次入学者:多彩な学び科目
・2012~2015年度1年次入学者:総合自由科目
・定員10名
Text Code FV324

【Course Objectives】

Participants will be able to critically analyze a conflict in terms of its history, wide background, geo-political viewpoints, various causes, actual conflict situation, interventions of the third parties and possible/actual solution which may be sustainable or unsustainable.

【Course Contents】

The course provides students with some of the analytical skills to understand how conflicts develop, to identify root causes of conflict at interpersonal, intergroup, and international levels. In particular, the focus is given to (1) actors analysis of conflict (victims, perpetrators, and bystanders) to realize how “ordinary people” are engaged in conflict escalation, and to (2) post-conflict issues such as peacebuilding and reconciliation, and the roles of UN, regional organizations, States, and civil societies. In addition, several case studies of conflict and genocides in the past are discussed, and guest speakers who are active in peacebuilding-related fields are invited to provide the real sense of what has been happening on the ground. At the end of the course, the concept of human security as a tool to peacebuilding and sustainable security is introduced and students are required to engage in simulation exercises of implementing the concept in conflict-related fields.

This course picks up several on-going and past conflicts in Asian countries/areas to review their wide backgrounds, influences of external powers, direct & indirect causes, details of concerned parties and actual conflicts situations including victims, and to analyze actual or possible solutions of those conflicts, considering their sustainability. This post-conflict issues include peacebuilding and reconciliation, and the roles of UN, regional organizations, states, and civil societies. Toward the end of the course, each participant does a presentation on a selected conflict in Asian countries/areas based on what he/she learned in the course and from his/her own research.

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