CONF 803: MACRO THEORIES OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Professor Ho-Won Jeong
George Mason University
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
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This course will help students understand the nature of social conflict and conditions for its resolution. The dynamics of conflict are examined in terms of their relationship to patterns of social change. The course offers a review and critique of various approaches to conflict analysis and resolution. Topics to be discussed include power relations, social psychology, institutional structures, social systems, gender and politics, cultural interpretations of violence and its alternatives, identity and ethnicity, etc. The class will be based on the conceptualization of specific terms, application of theories to specific cases and discussion of theoretical issues from comparative perspectives. Class discussion and lectures are geared toward developing the critical skills necessary to examine the strengths and weaknesses of theories. Students will be asked to explore their own theoretical framework for looking at conflict.
Class Information
Course Bibliography
Notes and Discussions
Basic Needs and Violence
Social Order and Discipline
Hegemony and Consent: Antionio Gramsci
Habermas: Modernity and Social Order
Structure and Agency
Power and Letgitimation
Research Papers
Student Papers
Resources and Links
Burton, John