Course ID Number: DCC5440 Course Title: International Conflict Resolution. No. of Credits: 2

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1 Course ID Number: DCC5440 Course Title: International Conflict Resolution No. of Credits: 2 Graduate School of International Relations International University of Japan Term: Spring 2012 Instructor: Naoko Kumagai nkumagai@iuj.ac.jp Office: 323 Phone: 509 Course Introduction The study of conflict resolution was established in the 1950s in the midst of the Cold War. Today, more than two decades after the end of the Cold War, there still exist ongoing armed conflicts in many parts of the world. The bourgeoning of post-cold War conflicts put the traditional conflict resolution measures, mostly with focus on interstate-based conflict termination, under scrutiny; the new elements of human rights, democratization, development, and transitional justice are thought as required for ultimate conflict resolution, beyond conflict termination, and then for a sustainable peace. 1

2 International Conflict Resolution (DCC 5440) International University of Japan Spring 2012 Instructor: Naoko Kumagai Date and Time: TBA The study of conflict resolution was established in the 1950s in the midst of the Cold War. Today, more than two decades after the end of the Cold War, there still exist ongoing armed conflicts in many parts of the world. The bourgeoning of post-cold War conflicts put the traditional conflict resolution measures, mostly with focus on interstate-based conflict termination, under scrutiny; the new elements of human rights, democratization, development, and transitional justice are thought as required for ultimate conflict resolution, beyond conflict termination, and then for a sustainable peace. This course seeks to provide an overview of conflict resolution measures taken by states, international organizations, and non-state actors, from a theoretical perspective and with case studies. Accordingly, students are expected to be familiar with historical and current ongoing armed conflicts, to understand various principles and methods of conflict resolution, and to exercise theoretical tools for the analysis of diverse cases of conflict resolution processes. The course begins with the study of the concepts and definitions of conflicts and conflict resolution models. The main part of the course surrounds case studies of newly devised conflict resolution measures with special focus on the roles of third party mediation, peacebuilding, state-building, humanitarian intervention, and legal process. Empirical cases include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Korean peninsula, Aceh, Bosnia and Kosovo, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. Still, these empirical topics are not exhaustive. Students are strongly encouraged to introduce any related topics and cases into class discussion. Each session of the course includes lecture and discussion. Students obligations are the completion of weekly reading assignments, active participation in class discussion, class presentation, two in-class exams, one mid-term examination, and a final paper involving conceptual analysis of a chosen topic on conflict resolution. Course Requirements and Grading System -Active class participation (attendance, class preparation, and class discussion): 20% -Class presentation: 10% -Three in-class (short answer/ reading comprehension) exams (Closed note exam): 15% -Mid-term exam (Open notes exam in mid-february, 2011): 25% 2

3 -Final paper: 30% (I will give you more information about the exams as weeks progress.) Penalty for Academic Integrity Violations (cheating, plagiarism): an F grade for the particular assignment in which the violation takes place. Weekly Schedule Week1: What is Conflict? General overview of armed conflicts around the world. What is conflict? What is peace? How to achieve a sustainable peace? -Peter Wallensteen, Understanding Conflict Resolution,, Part 1 The Problem and How to Approach It, second edition, London: SAGE Publications, 2007, pp Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse, and Hugh Miall, Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflicts, Second Edition, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005, pp Ximena Davies-Vengoechea, A Positive Concept of Peace, in Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry, eds., Keeping the Peace, New York: Routledge, 2004, pp Week 2: The Resolution of Conflicts between States, in Civil Wars, and in State Formation Conflicts Traditional measures of conflict resolution for inter-state armed conflicts Why are they not always effective in solving civil wars or state formation conflicts? To understand newly devised methods during the post-war period: peacekeeping, peacebuilding, multiparty mediation; humanitarian intervention; conflict transformation; legal solution (transitional justice, ICC) -Wallensteen, pp Jack Levy, Contending Theories of International Conflict: A Levels-of-Analysis Approach in Crocker et al, Managing Global Chaos, USIP, 1995, pp Karin Aggestam, Internal and External Dynamics of Spoiling: A Negotiation Approach, in Edward Newman and Oliver Richmond, eds., Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers during Conflict Resolution, Tokyo: United Nations University, 2006, pp Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse, and Hugh Miall, Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflicts, Second Edition, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005, pp S. Mansoob Murshed, Conflict, Civil War and Underdevelopment: An Introduction, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue on Civil War in Developing Countries, July 2002, pp Week 3: The United Nations in Conflict Resolution 3

4 Collective security, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention, mediation, arbitraration -Wallensteen, pp Charles Hauss, International Conflict Resolution: International Relations for the 21 st Century, London: Continuum, 2001, pp Sara Horowitz, Mediation, in Charles Webel and Johan Galtung, eds., Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, London: Routledge, 2007, pp Franz Cede, The Settlement of International Disputes by Legal Means---Arbitration and Judicial Settlement, in Jacob Bercovitch and Victor Kremenyuk, The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution, London: SAGE Publications, 2008, pp Week 4: Conflict Resolution and Justice--Toward a Sustainable Peace -Johan Galtung, Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization, London: SAGE, 1996, pp Joanna Santa-Barbara, Reconciliation, in Charles Webel and Johan Galtung, eds., Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, Routledge, 2007, pp James Meermik, Justice and Peace? How the International Criminal Tribunal Affects Societal Peace in Bosnia, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 42, No. 3, May 2005, pp Peter Uvin and Ann Nee, Silence and Dialogue: Burundians Alternatives To Transitional Justice, in Rosalynd Shaw et al, ed., Localizing Transitional Justice, Stanford, Stanford University Press, Peter Uvin, Development and Security: Genealogy and Typology of an Evolving International Policy Area, in John Grin, Mesjasz, Czeslaw, et al. eds., Globalisation and Environmental Challenges: Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century, Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 3, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, Week 5: Israel and Palestine -Charles Hauss, pp Ifat Maoz, Ilan Yaniv, and Naama Ivri, Decision Framing and Support for Concessions in the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict, Journal of Peace Research,Vol. 44, No. 1, January 2007, pp Hillel Frisch and Menachem Hofnung, Power or Justice? Rule and Law in the Palestinian Authority, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 44, No. 3, May 2007, pp Week 6: The Korean Peninsula, Peacebuilding in Cambodia -Ramses Amer, The Resolution of the Cambodian Conflict: Assessing the Explanatory Value of Zartman s Ripeness Theory, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 44, No. 6, November 2007, pp Wade L. Huntley, U.S. Policy toward North Korea in Strategic Context: Tempting Goliath's Fate, Asian Survey, Vol. 47, No. 3, May/June 2007, pp Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, Sanctioning North Korea: The Political Economy of Denuclearization and Proliferation, Asian Survey, Vol. 50, No. 3, May/June 2010, pp Week 7: State-building in Bosnia and Kosovo 4

5 -Charles Hauss, pp Jan Oberg, Former Yugoslavia and Iraq: A Comparative Analysis of International Mismanagement, in Charles Webel and Johan Galtung, eds., Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, London: Routledge, 2007, pp Week 8: Collective security and Humanitarian Intervention (Rwanda, Somalia, Bosnia, East Timor) -Alan J. Kuperman, The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2008, pp Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Sociology of Humanitarian Intervention: Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia Compared, International Political Science Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, January 1997, pp Nicholas J. Wheeler and Tim Dunne, East Timor and the New Humanitarian Interventionism, International Affairs, Vol. 77, No. 4, October 2001, pp Peter Uvin and Charles Mironko, "Justice in Rwanda: International Aims and Local Perceptions," Global Governance, No. 9, 2003, pp Recommended: -Eric A. Heinze, The Moral Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Reconciling Human Respect and Utility, Polity, Vol. 36, No. 4, July 2004, pp Week 9: Mediation: Sri Lanka, Aceh -Jacob Bercovitch, Mediation and Conflict Resolution, in Jacob Bercovitch and Victor Kremenyuk, The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution, pp Rajat Ganguly, Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict: At a Crossroad between Peace and War, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 5, 2004, pp Week 10: Terrorism -Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse, and Hugh Miall, Terror and Global Justice, Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Transformation of Deadly Conflicts, Second Edition, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005, pp William Donohue, Terrorism and Conflict Resolution, in Jacob Bercovitch and Victor Kremenyuk, The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Resolution, -Robert A. Rape, The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, The American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 3, August 2003, pp