New! Minor in Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Posted April 18, 2012
A new Minor in Transitional Justice and
Post-Conflict Reconstruction has been approved, effective immediately.
Students engage in emerging debates surrounding transitional
justice and post-conflict reconstruction, and to allow for real-world
application of theoretical constructs and explanations relating to
development, democracy, the environment, the economy, human rights,
politics, peace agreements and justice before, at the time of, and
post-transition. The minor requires students to take two new integrative
courses designed to bring all of our students into a single classroom,
based around themes central to the field, as well as other courses
offered by departments and programs across campus.
NEW! Core Courses
TJ
2001F:
Problems in Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
This course introduces students to interdisciplinary studies of
transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction, with emphasis on
questions of conflict. Students will examine key concepts and explore
theoretical problems in confronting and seeking solutions to the
aftermath of large-scale events of social violence, including war,
genocide, and authoritarian rule.
This course explores issues inherent to regions facing the aftermath of
large-scale events of social violence, including war, genocide, and
authoritarian rule, with an emphasis on questions of justice and
post-conflict reconstruction. Students will examine specific cases of
recent attempts to establish just responses to conflict within affected
communities.
Available beginning January 2013.
See
http://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/2012/pg1633.html
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