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Course Plan and Syllabus 2015 Course Code: ISSV 4854 Course Name: Peace Research Course Leader: Wenche Iren Hauge Time: 9:15-12:00 Date Time Topic/ Readings/ Lecturer Optional Readings Week 1 June 22

Duquenne: Class Introduction 8:30-13:00 Visit to and lecture at PRIO: Halvard Buhaug: Conflict Trends Wenche Hauge: Causes and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation: Concepts and Approaches Torunn

Return 12:00 Cabin trip 9:15-12:00 Kai Egon Kverme: The War in Syria: The End of a Family and the Birth of a Nation 9:15-12:00 Lynn Nygaard: Academic reading, writing and methodology Øystein

1 Course Plan and Syllabus 2015 Course Code: ISSV 4854 Course Name: Peace Research Course Leader: Wenche Iren Hauge Time: 9:15-12:00 Date Time Topic/ Readings/ Lecturer Optional Readings Week 1 June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 Week 2 June 29 July 30 July 01 July 02 July 03 Week 3 July 06 July 07 July 08 July 09 July 10 Week 4 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 Wenche Hauge and Anne Duquenne: Class Introduction 8:30-13:00 Visit to and lecture at PRIO: Halvard Buhaug: Conflict Trends Wenche Hauge: Causes and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation: Concepts and Approaches Torunn Tryggestad: Gender and Peace Processes 9:15-12: all day All day Siri Rustad: Resources and Conflict Cabin trip: Nansen Dialogue Network: workshop Cabin trip: Nansen Dialogue Network: workshop Return 12:00 Cabin trip 9:15-12:00 Kai Egon Kverme: The War in Syria: The End of a Family and the Birth of a Nation 9:15-12:00 Lynn Nygaard: Academic reading, writing and methodology Øystein Rolandsen: Conflict in South Sudan Helga Binningsbø: Power Sharing in Conflict Resolution Processes Iselin Frydenlund: Religion in Peacebuilding: Possibilities and Pitfalls Long weekend J.Peter Burgess: What is Security? Wenche Hauge: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding - Introduction: The Haitian Case Pavel Baev: The Manipulation and Mismanagement of the Ukraine Crisis Nobuo Hayashi: International Humanitarian Law Nobuo Hayashi: International Criminal Law

2 Week 5 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 Week 6 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 30 Kristian Berg Harpviken: Peacebuilding and Peacemaking in the War on terror: Afghanistan 2001 to the Present Wenche Hauge: Norwegian Perspectives on Peacebuilding Eirik Vold: Latin America in the 21st Century: The Geopolitical Shift 8:30-13:00 Students' Panel with Class Discussion 9:15-12:00 Stein Tønneson: Explaining the East Asian Peace Henrik Syse: Just War Theory Wenche Hauge: Gender in Demobilization: The Case of Guatemala Class discussion, summary, exam preparations Final Exam July 31

3 Reading List Halvard Buhaug: Conflict Trends (June 23, 2015) Themnér, Lotta and Peter Wallensteen Armed Conflicts, 1946 to Journal of Peace Research, 49 (4): (10 p). Pinker, Steven and Andrew Mack, The World is Not Falling Apart, pp 1-6, in SLATE (17 p). Wenche Hauge: Causes and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation. Concept and Approaches (June 24, 2015) Hauge, Wenche & Tanja Ellingsen, Beyond Environmental Scarcity: Causal Pathways to Conflict, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 35, no. 3, pp (20 p). Wallensteen, Peter (ed.), Armed Conflicts and Peace Agreements, chapter 2, pp , in Understanding Conflict Resolution. London: SAGE (19 p). Dessler, David, How to Sort Causes in the Study of Environmental Change and Violent Conflict, pp , in Nina Græger & Dan Smith (eds), Environment, Poverty, Conflict. PRIO Report No. 2/94. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute (18 p). Collier, Paul, and Anke Hoeffler Greed and grievance in civil war. Oxford Economic Papers 56(4): (32 p). Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war. American Political Science Review, 97(1):75-90 (15 p). Frances Stewart, ed. (2008). Horizontal inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp (21 p). Torunn Tryggestad: Gender and Peace Processes (June 25, 2015) Boulding, Elise (1984) 'Focus On: The Gender Gap', Journal of Peace Research, 21 (1). (3p) Brewer, John D. (2010) 'Gender', chapter 4 in Peace Processes. A Sociological Approach, Cambridge: Polity Press (34 p). Detraz, Nicole (2012), 'Understanding Gender in Security Debates' (Chapter 1) and 'Conclusion - The Contributions of Gender Lenses to Security' (Chapter 7) in International Security and Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press ( p). Siri Rustad: Resources and Conflict (June 26, 2015) Lujala, Päivi, Deadly Combat over Natural Resources: Gems, Petroleum, Drugs, and the Severity of Armed Conflict, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 53 (1): (20 p). Rustad, Siri Aas, Päivi, Lujala and Philippe le Billion, Building or Spoiling peace? Lessons from the Management of High-value Natural Resources, chapter 37, pp , in (eds.) Lujala, Päivi and Siri Aas Rustad, High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. London: Earthscan. (50 p). Kai Egon Kverme: The War in Syria: The End of a Family and the Birth of a Nation (July 2, 2015) Ruiz, Laura de Elvira and Tina Zintl, 'The End of the Ba'athist Social Contract in Bashar al- Asad's Syria: Reading Sociopolitical Transformations through Charities and Broader Benevolent Activism, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46 (Special Issue 2): (20 p). The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, Building the Syrian State. (A Plan by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood).

4 Lynn Nygaard: Academic Reading, Writing and Methodology (July 3, 2015) Nygard, Lynn, P. (ed), Who are you talking to? Defining your audience, chapter 4, pp , in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. Copenhagen: LIBER. Copenhagen Business School Press. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (14 p). Nygard, Lynn, P. (ed), What do you want to say? Forming your core argument, chapter 5, pp , in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. Copenhagen: LIBER. Copenhagen Business School Press. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (16 p). Øystein Rolandsen: Conflict in South Sudan (July 6, 2015) De Waal, Alex, When Kleptocracy Becomes Insolvent: Brute Causes of the Civil War in South Sudan, African Affairs 113 (452) July 1: (22 p). Rolandsen, Øystein H., Another Civil War in South Sudan: The Failure of Guerrilla Government? Journal of Eastern African Studies 9 (1) January 2: (11 p). Rolandsen, Øystein H., Helene Molteberg Glomnes, Sebabatso Manoeli, and Fanny Nicolaisen, A Year of South Sudan s Third Civil War. International Area Studies Review, 18 (1): (17 p). Helga Binningsbø: Power Sharing in Conflict Resolution Processes (July 7, 2015) Binningsbø, Helga Malmin, Power Sharing, Peace and Democracy: Any Obvious Relationships? International Area Studies Review 16 (1): (23 p). Jarstad, Anna K, Power Sharing Former Enemies in Joint Government in Anna K Jarstad & Timothy D. Sisk eds. From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ( ) (28 p). Iselin Frydenlund: Religion in Peacebuilding. Possibilities and Pitfalls (July 8, 2015) Frydenlund, Iselin, Religion, civility and conflict towards a concept of critical civility, Studies in interreligious dialogue, 23, (1): (15 p). Leirvik, Oddbjørn (ed), Introduction: Religious Activism, Interfaith Dialogue and interreligious Studies, pp. 1-7 in Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion. London: Bloomsbury (7 p). J.Peter Burgess: What is Security? (July 13, 2015) Wæver, O.,2000. What is Security? The Securityness of Security, pp in Hansen, B. (ed) European Security Identities Copenhagen, Copenhagen Political Studies Press (32 p). Burgess, J. Peter (2007) Non Military Security Challenges, pp in Contemporary Security and Strategy, Craig A. Snyder (Ed.), London, Palgrave 2007 (11 p). Wenche Hauge: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. An Introduction (July 14, 2015) Boutros-Ghali, B. (1992). An agenda for peace: preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, and peacekeeping: Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to the statement adopted by the summit meeting of the Security Council on 31 January 1992, New York: United Nations. Lidén Kristoffer, 'Building Peace between Global and Local Politics: The Cosmopolitical Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding', International Peacekeeping, 16 ( 5): (18 p). Wallensteen, Peter (ed.), Understanding Conflict Resolution, chapter 1, pp. 3-12, in Understanding Conflict Resolution. London: SAGE (9 p). Miall, Hugh; Woodhouse, Toln & Ramsbotham, Ending Violent Conflict: Peacemaking, in O. Ramsbotham, T. Woodhouse, and H. Miall, Contemporary Conflict Resolution, 3rd ed. (2011), Ch. 7 (pp ). Cambridge: Polity (26 p). Muggah, Robert, The political economy of statebuilding in Haiti: Informal resistance to security-first statebuilding. In Political Economy of Statebuilding: Power after Peace, ed Mads Berdal and Dominik Zaum. Routledge, London and New York, (12 p).

5 Wallensteen, Peter and Frida Möller, 'Conflict prevention: methodology for knowing the unknown', chapter 10, pp in (ed.) Peter Wallensteen, Peace Research: Theory and Practice.London and New York: Routledge (18 p). Doucet, Charlier Rachelle, Local Models of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in the South-East and South-West of Haiti. PRIO Paper. PRIO & CERDECS. Nobuo Hayashi: International Humanitarian Law (July 16, 2015) Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Michael Howard and Peter Petit (eds. trans.), book 1, chap. 1, pp (14 p). Robert Kolb and Richard Hyde, An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts. Chaps. 1-5: pp Hart Publishing. (33 p). Nobuo Hayashi: International Criminal Law (July 17, 2015) Cassese, Antonio; Paola Gaeta; Laurel Baig; Mary Fan; Christopher Gosnell and Alex Whiting, 2013 (rev). Chaps. 1-3 (pp. 3-63) in Cassese's International Criminal Law, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (60 p). Kristian Berg Harpviken: Peacebuilding and Peacemaking in the War on Terror: Afghanistan 2001 to the Present (July 20, 2015) Harpviken, Kristian Berg, Initiatives to foster an Afghan peace process, : a role for Norway? NOREF Report. January Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (12 p). Roland, Paris, Afghanistan: What Went Wrong? Review Essay. Perspectives on Politics, 11 (2): (10 p). Wenche Hauge: Norwegian Perspectives on Peacebuilding (July 21, 2015) Skånland, Ø.H. (2010) Norway is a peace nation: A discourse analytic reading of the Norwegian peace engagement, Cooperation and Conflict, 45: (20 p). Zambrano Liliana and Felipe Gómez Isa, Participation of civil society in the Colombian peace process. NOREF Report. July Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (7 p). Stein Tønneson: Explaining the East Asian Peace(July 24, 2015) Tønnesson, S. (2009). What is it that best explains the East Asian Peace Since 1979? A research agenda. Asian Perspectives 33(1): (25 p). Tønnesson, S. with Erik Melander, Elin Bjarnegård, Isak Svensson and Susanne Schaftenaar (2013), The Fragile Peace in East and South East Asia, in SIPRI Yearbook 2013: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp (12 p). Henrik Syse: Just War Theory (July 27, 2015) Amstutz, Mark, Morality and Foreign Policy, in Mark Amstutz, ed., International Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. pp (25 p). Fotion, Nicholas, Reactions to Force: Pacifism, Realism and Just War Theory, in Andrew Valls, ed., Ethics in International Affairs. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield pp (12 p). Wenche Hauge: Gender in Demobilization. The Case of Guatemala (July 28, 2015) Hauge, Wenche and Beate Thoresen, The Fate of Former Combatants in Guatemala: Spoilers or Agents for Change? ch. 8, pp in Stephen Baranyi (ed.), The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post 9/11. UBC Press: Vancouver (24 p). Hauge, Wenche, Group Identity A Neglected Asset: Determinants of Political Participation among Ex Female Fighters in Guatemala, Conflict Security and Development, 8 (3): (21 p).

MACIS Core Seminar: Political Violence

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