Код: 295128

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Порівняльний аналіз конфліктів

Анотація: This is an advanced course in Conflict Studies, which builds on students' prior knowledge acquired in an introductory seminar on Peace and Conflict. The course offers students a way towards a deeper understanding of the complex nature of conflict, using a combination of analytical approaches from Comparative Politics and Critical International Relations. Drawing on recent conflict cases from different world regions, the course aims to expose students to theoretical and evidence-based empirical investigations of conflict structures and narratives, accompanying conflict management and resolution processes. In the first step, students will be equipped with a set of comparative research tools to analyze and compare selected conflict cases. In the second step, they will apply the acquired theoretical knowledge and methodological tools to 'deconstruct' and better understand the conflicts at hand. The course is held as a seminar in a blended form (a combination of in-person and online activities), drawing on collaborative and peer-to-peer learning techniques. It consists of three main parts. Part I includes theoretical foundations of comparative conflict analysis and entails an intensive two-day block seminar, held in-person by all three instructors. Part II is the applied part of the course, which is held in a digital form including both synchronous and asynchronous activities. Part II is based on a matrix approach, whereby all students choose their working groups to engage in-depth with one conflict case and report on the selected case to the other groups. The working groups are determined at the end of Part I and maintained throughout the whole Part II. Each synchronous session requires preliminary preparation (background research on conflict cases) by the working groups as well as reading of selected literature, made available to all participants by the instructors. Different aspects of conflicts selected by the working groups are thus compared separately in each session of Part II. The course culminates in Part III, a half-day online workshop, which includes an intensive exchange of acquired knowledge and skills through a cross-case comparison of the studied conflicts in the final exercise with rearranged working groups.