Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OT | 3 | 2 |
2500259 Political Science and Public Management | OT | 4 | 2 |
2503778 International Relations | OB | 3 | 2 |
Lecture of aprox 1500 pages
Knowledge of essentials of international relations
The main goal is a general knowledge of several areas of Internationals Relations linked with conflict analysis and conflict resolution:peace research and peace studies; security studies; analyses of war causes; conflict resolution studies and peacebuilding studies.
There are also several specific goals: a) to understand of the relationship between international relations conflict analysis and the conflict analysis of social sciences; b) to understand all the main nuances and approaches of conflict, particularly in international context; c) to use several outils for analysis and intervention a concrete conflicts; d) to understand the toolbox for the prevention, management, resolution and transformation of conflicts
PART I. CONTEXT AND CONCEPTS
Lecture 1. War and Power in XX and XXI centuries: war evolution versus international system evolution.
Lecture 2. Violence, international conflicts and the social sciences
Lecture 3. Understanding of the nature and evolution of the armed conflicts, war, security and peace.
Lecture 4. The evolution of the war and the organized violence
PART II. CONFLICT ANALYSIS
Lecture 5. How study and understand the conflicts
Lecture 6. Examples of conflict analysis
Lecture 7. Peace research and peace studies
Lecture 8. Theory and Practice of conflict studies, conflict resolutiojn and conflict transformation.
PART III. THE ACTION OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY.
Lecture 9. Internationals instruments. United Nations and international security
Lecture 10. The management of violent conflicts and peacekeeping activities
Lecture 11. The ending of violent conflicts and the peacemaking activities
PART IV. CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATION. PEACEBUILDING
Lecture 12. The preparation of peace: peace processes and peace accords
Lecture 13. Postwar reconstruction and peacebuilding
Lecture 14. Reconciliation and the resolution of structural causes of conflicts
Combination of lectures, practical cases and readings,with 3-5 evaluation activities and final exam
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Control of readings and comprehension of literature | 4 | 0.16 | |
Lectures | 40 | 1.6 | |
Seminaries | 6 | 0.24 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
Case studies | 25 | 1 | |
discussion | 7.5 | 0.3 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous work | 67.5 | 2.7 |
With a continuate evaluation system, the final grade is the result of:
Assistance to classe: 5%
Controls of readings : 20%
Case studies: 25%
Final exam: 50% (composer by a take-home, 30%, and a presential exam, 70&)
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Case studies | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 16, 5, 32, 9, 31, 17, 12, 14, 15, 24, 22, 25, 28, 20, 6, 7, 10 |
Control of readings and comprehension of literature | 20% | 0 | 0 | 4, 5, 9, 11, 21, 17, 15, 25, 28, 30, 7 |
Final Exam (presential and also with a take-home) | 50% | 0 | 0 | 3, 5, 26, 9, 8, 19, 18, 21, 17, 13, 12, 14, 15, 24, 22, 23, 25, 29, 28, 30, 20, 27, 6 |
GENERAL LITERATURE
1. Basic Handbooks/Manuales básicos
Compulsory Lecture
MIALL; H; Ramsbotham, O:; Woodhouse, T (2005 segunda edición), Contemporary Conflict Resolution.The prevention, management and transformation of deadly conflicts, Londres, Polity Press, 2005. Edició castellana ICIP/Bellatera, octubre de 2011
GRASA, R. (2010). Cincuenta años de evolución de la investigación para la paz. Tendencias para observar, investigar y actuar. Barcelona, Oficina de Promoció de la Pau i dels Drets Humans (versión en castellano y catalán. PDF de ambas en el campus virtual).
Recomenables per alguns temes/Recomendables para algunos temas
BAYLIS, J/ J. Wart, E.Cohen,. C:S. Gray (2002). Strategy in the Contemporary World. An Introducion to Strategic Studies, Oxford, Oxford UP.
BARASH, D. P. (2000). Approaches to Peace. A Reader in Peace Studies, Oxford, Oxford UP.
BERCOVITCH, J/V. Kremenyuk/ W. Zartmann (2009).The Sage Handbook of Conflict Resolution, Londres, Sage.
FISAS, V. (2002). Cultura de paz y gestión de conflictos, Barcelona, París: Icaria: UNESCO. Introducción general.
GALTUNG, J. (19969). Peace by peaceful means. Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization, Londres, Sage, 1996 (al menos los apartados I y II y las conclusiones) (existe edición castellana a cargo de editorial Bakeaz).
- Ho-Won Jeong, Conflict Management and Resolution. An Introduction, Londres, Routledge, 2010.
.WALLENSTEEN, P. (2007). Understanding Conflict Resolution.l System War, Peace and the Global Syste.. Londres: Sage. Excelentre presentación, desde la peace research pero con buen conocimiento de los temas de relaciones internacionales
Destacats en groc aquells llibres que són de lectura obligatòria (primer apartat) o bé aquells que tenen un carácter més genèric, de visió global.
Destacados en trama amarilla aquéllos que son de lectura obligatoria (primer apartado) o bien los que tienen un carácter más genérico, de visión global.
2. General literature
BERDAL, M. y MALONE, D. (eds.) (2000). Greed and Grievance. Economic Agendas in Civil Wars. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
BROWN, S., The Causes and Prevention of War, Nueva York, St. Martin's Press, 1994.
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PARA LA PAZ, Anuario CIP 19-, Madrid, Icaria, 19-.
DUFFIELD, M., Las nuevas guerras en el mundo global. La convergencia entre desarrollo y seguridad. Madrid: La Catarata, 2004 [ed. Orig. 2001].
FISAS, V. Procesos de paz y negociación en conflictos armados, Barcelona, Paidós, 2004.
HOLSTI, K. J., The state, war, and the state of war, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
JOB, B. (ed.) (1992). The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.
KAGAN, D., Sobre las causas de la guerra y la preservación de la paz. Madrid, México DF: Turner: FCE, 2003 [ed. Orig. 1995].
KALDOR, M. Las nuevas guerras. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2001.
PRUITT y KIM, S.H. (2004). Social Conflict: Escalation, Stalemate and Settlement. Nueva York: McGraw-Hill.
ROMEVA i RUEDA, R., Guerra, posguerra y paz. Pautas para el análisis y la intervención en contextos posbélicos o postacuerdo. Barcelona: Icaria, 2003.
SIPRI, SIPRI Yearbook: World armaments and disarmament, 209 , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 20--
TORTOSA, J. M. El juego global: maldesarrollo y pobreza en el sistema mundial. Barcelona: Icaria, 2000.
WALZER, M. Guerras justas e injustas. Un razonamiento moral con ejemplos históricos, Barcelona: Paidós, 2001.
4. Additional Literature l
BEJARANO, J. A., Una agenda para la paz: Aproximaciones desde la teoría de la resolución de conflictos, Bogotá, Tercer Mundo, 1995.
BROWN, M. E. (ed.), Ethnic Conflict and International Security, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993.
BURTON, J.; DUKES, F. (ed.), Conflict: Readings in Management & Resolution, Londres, Macmillan, 1990.
BURTON, J. W., Conflict: Resolution and Prevention, Nova York, St. Martin's Press, 1990.
CAMILLERI, J. A.; FALK, J., The end of sovereignty?: The politics of a shrinkimg and fragmenting world, Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1992.
ENZENBERGER, Hans Magnus. Perspectivas de guerra civil. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1994.
FISHER, Roger. Más allá de Maquiavelo. Herramientas para afrontar conflictos. Barcelona: Granica, 1996.
FISHER, R. y URY W. Obtenga el sí. El arte de negociar sin ceder. Ed. gestión, 2000.
GALTUNG, J., Paz por medios pacíficos. Paz y conflicto, desarrollo y civilización. Bilbao: Bakeaz/Guernika Gogoratuz, 2003.
___________, Tras la violencia, 3R: reconstrucción, reconciliación, resolución. Bilbao: Bakeaz/Guernika Gogoratuz, 1998.
GOERTZ, G.; DIEHL, P. F., Territorial changes and international conflict: studies in international conflict, London, Routledge, 1992.
GOTTHEIL, J. y SHIFFRIN, A. Mediación: una transformación en la cultura. Barcelona: Paidós mediación, 1996.
GOTTLIEB, G., Nation against state: new approaches to ethnic conflicts and the decline of sovereignty, Nueva York, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993.
GURR, T., Minorities at Risk: A Global View of Ethnopolitical Conflicts, Washington, DC, United States Institute of Peace Press, 1993.
GURR, T.; HARFF, B., Ethnic Conflict and World Politics, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1994.
HOLSTI, K. J., Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International order, 1648 1989, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
IGNATIEFF, M. El honor del guerrero. Guerra étnica y conciencia moderna. Madrid: Taurus, 1999.
JIMÉNEZ, J. J. La socialización del miedo. Madrid. Los libros de la catarata, 1998.
JUDSON, E. Aprendiendo a resolver conflictos. Los libros de la catarata, 2000.
LEDERACH, J. P., El Abecé de la paz y los conflictos educación para la paz, Madrid, La Catarata, 2000.
______________, Construyendo la paz. Reconciliación sostenible en sociedades divididas. Bilbao: Bakeaz/Guernika Gogoratuz, 1998.
MARTÍN BERISTAIN, C. Y PAÉZ, D. Violencia, apoyo a las victimas y reconstrucción social. Fundamentos, 2000.
MATTHEWS, R. O.; RUBINOFF, A. G.; SETEIN, J. G. (eds.), International Conflict and Conflict Management: Readings in World Politics, Ontario, Prentice Hall, 1988.
MITCHELL, C. R., The structure of International Conflict, Nueva York, St. Martin's Press, 1989.
MOORE, Christopher. El proceso de mediación. Bueno Aires: Granica, 1995.
MOREAU DEFARGES, Philippe. Un mundo de injerencias. Editorial Bellaterra, 1999.
MULDOON, B. El corazón del conflicto. Barcelona: Paidós, 1998.
MUÑOZ, F. A. La paz imperfecta. Universidad de Granada, 2001.
NICHOLSON, M., Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
PRINCEN, T., Intermediaries in InternationalConflict, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1992.
RICE, E., Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underveloped Countries, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988.
ROJAS MARCOS, L. Las semillas de la violencia. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1995,
RUBIO, A. (ed.), Presupuesto teóricos y éticos sobre la Paz. Universidad de Granada, 1994.
RYAN, S., Ethnic Conflict and International Relations, Aldershot, Darmouth, 1990.
SANDOLE, D. J. D.; MERWE, H. v. d. (eds.), Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice: Integration and Application, Manchester, Nueva York, Manchester University Press, 1993.
SEGURIDAD HUMANA: CONCEPTOS, EXPERIENCIAS Y PROPUESTAS. Número monogràfic coordinat per Rafael Grasa i Pol Morillas de la revista Afers Internacionals, núm 76 (febrer 2007).
SILVA, K. M. d.; MAY, R. J. (eds.), Internationalization of Ethnic Conflict, Londres, Pinter, 1991.
SINGER, M.; WILDAVSKY, A., The Real World Order: Zones of Peace / Zones of Turmoil, Chatham, N.J., Chatham House, 1993.
SUARES, M. Mediación, conducción de disputas, comunicación y técnicas. Barcelona: Paidós mediación, 1996.
TOURAINE, A. ¿Podremos vivir juntos? Madrid: Editorial PPC, 1997.
URRA, J. Violencia. Memoria amarga. Madrid: Siglo XXI de España, 1997.
VÄYRYNEN, R. (ed.), New Directions in Conflict Theory: Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation, Londres, etc., Sage, 1991.
5. Yearbooks, journals....
Anuario Internacional Cidob
African Journal in Conflict Resolution
Arms Control Today
Cooperation and Conflict: Nordic Journal of International Studies.
Foreign affairs
Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica
International Security .
Journal of Conflict Resolution: Research on war and peace between and within nations.
Journal of Peace Research: an interdisciplinary and international quaterly of scholarly work in peace research.
Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement.
Military Review.
Negotiation Journal: on the process of dispute settlement.
Online Journal of Arbitration, Mediation, Negotiation and Complementary Dispute Resolution Techniques
Peace and Conflict Studies
Security Dialogue
Sipri Yearbook
Working Papers ICIP (Institut Català Internacional per a la Pau).Accesibles en www.icip.cat
6.Websites
International organization
http://www.osce.org/, OSCE
http://www.nato.int/home.htm, OTAN/NATO
http://europa.eu.int/, Unió Europea/European Union
http://www.un.org/, Nacions Unides, ONU
http://www.unhcr.ch/, ACNUR (Alt Comissionat NNUU per als refugiats)/
Research institutes and centers
http://www.opendemocracy.com/home/index.jsp, Open Democracy
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/, Universitat de NNUU i de l’Ulster
http://www.cip.fuhem.es/, ICIP/Madrid
http://www.icip.cat, ICIP, Barcelona
http://www.ecfr.eu/, European Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.ifri.org/F/accueil.htm, Institut Français des Relations Internationales
http://www.iai.it/, Instituto Affari Internazionali
http://www.iecah.org/espanol/home.html, Instituto de estudios sobre conflictos y acción humanitaria/Iecah
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/, International Crisis Group
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/, International Relations and Security Network
http://www.prio.no/, Peace Research Institute d’Oslo
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org, Real Instituto Elcano
http://www.sipri.se/, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute/Sipri
http://www.tni.org/, Transnational Institute of Amsterdam
http://www.stratfor.com/, temas estratègicos
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/, estudios de seguridad
http://www.cia.gov/, CIA
http://www.hrw.org/, Human Rights Watch
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