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| ULS4006 | Conflict Resolution And Mediation | 3+0+0 | ECTS:5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Ayça EMİNOĞLU | | Co-Lecturer | Associate Professor Bülent Şener | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | This program is designed to improve conflict resolution skills by examining what conflict is and how conflict affects people. Participants will examine positive and negative conflicts and decide how conflict can be dealt with in their work and personal lives. The program will examine some basic communication strategies and will promote the development of negotiation and influencing skills. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | To define conflict | 7,8 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | to explain the conflict resolution between international and intra state actors mainly. | 7,8 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | To define the terms of humanitarian intervention, peace keeping, international mediation and post conflict process. | 7,8 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | To analyze conflict resolution cases | 7,8 | 1, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| The world has transformed rapidly in the decade since the end of the Cold War. An old system is gone and, although it is easy to identify what has changed, it is not yet clear that a new system has taken its place. A potentially revolutionary change in world politics has been a de facto redefinition of ?international conflict.? International conflict still includes the old-fashioned war, a violent confrontation between nation states acting through their own armed forces or proxies with at least one state fighting outside its borders. But now some conflicts are treated as threats to international peace and security even if two states are not fighting. Particularly when internal conflicts involve violations of universal norms such as self-determination, human rights, or democratic governance, concerted international actions?including the threat or use of force?are being taken to prevent, conclude, or resolve them just as they sometimes have been for old-fashioned wars. In this sense some conflicts within a country?s borders are being treated as international.
How important are such recent developments? In particular, do they make any important difference in how the actors on the world scene should deal with international conflicts? Do the tools developed for managing international conflicts under the old world system still apply? Are they best applied in new ways or by new entities? Are there new tools that are more appropriate for the new conditions? How do the old and new tools relate to each other? This course aims to answer these questions.
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction | | | Week 2 | Basic concepts and theories | | | Week 3 | Theoretical Approaches to Peace | | | Week 4 | Conflict types | | | Week 5 | Peace Processes | | | Week 6 | War Ethics | | | Week 7 | Peace Building Theory and Practice I | | | Week 8 | Peace Building Theory and Practice II | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | Conflict Resolution | | | Week 11 | Conflict Transformation | | | Week 12 | Mediation | | | Week 13 | Hybrid Peace | | | Week 14 | Evaluation of Conflict Zones I | | | Week 15 | Evaluation of Conflict Zones II | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Peter Wallensteen, Understanding Conflict Resolution: War, Peace and the Global System, SAGE Publications, London, 2002 | | | 2 | Ramsbotham Oliver, Hugh Miall, Tom Woodhouse, Contemporary Conflict Resolution, Polity, 2016. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 2 | 12 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 11 | 2 | 22 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 120 |
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