General Description (概要)
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This is a foundation course into peace and conflict studies. It will give students an overview of a variety of theories, approaches, and methodology in order to better understand the current international and domestic environment in war-prone countries and regions in order to develop solutions for conflicts. The course will also improve methodological and report writing skills.
平和と紛争研究における基礎コースである。紛争の解決方法を生み出すため、紛争がちな国々や地域における国際/国内環境についての理解を深め、様々な理論やアプローチ、方法論の概観を学ぶ。また、このコースでは方法論的能力及びレポート作成能力の向上も図る。
This course will first give an introduction into peace and security studies, the questions it asks, the concepts it has developed, and why they are important and useful to better understand and analyze actual and potential conflicts and traditional and non-traditional security threats, particularly after the end of the Cold-War. The course will use contemporary security and conflict cases and introduces analytical tools and theories to better understand these cases. It wants to introduce important ideas, theories, and methods used in peace studies, so that you can use them for a particular case. You should therefore choose a peace and security issue that particularly interests you, so that you can write a research paper on this case using some of the approaches outlined in this class. The class is, therefore, less interested in giving an overview about individual cases of wars and conflicts (although examples will be used) but how to better understand them in order to propose solutions or reasons why existing solutions are insufficient. By the end of the class, you should write a well-documented analytical paper about a case of your choice. Ideally, the paper should be good enough so that after some editorial work, it could be published. It is indeed my hope, that some papers would be considered for publications in a journal or book project. For this purpose, the class offers one research design workshop (session 7), so that you can introduce the case you are writing about and critically evaluate your approach using social-scientific research theories and methodologies.
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Learning Goals(学習目標)
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The course will introduce classical and modern theories and methods developed in peace and security studies to enable you to...
(1) Understand and apply the theoretical models developed in peace and security studies, international relations, political science, sociology, history, and other relevant social sciences.
(2) Get an overview about the classical and contemporary literature in peace and security studies
(3) Analyze cases and present them in a critical and coherent way.
(4) Be able to write a well-documented, critical and analytical research paper.
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Contents(内容)
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9/9 Introduction to Peace and Security Studies: Problems, Issues, and Theories
9/16 Causes of Violence Causes of War I (1. Individual Level Explanations)
9/23 Causes of Violence Causes of War II (1. Group Level Explanations, 2. Images, Nationalism, and Identity, 3. Gender and Violence)
9/30 The Realist Concept of Peace
10/7 The Idealist Concept of Peace
10/14 The Constructivist Concept of Peace
10/21 The Marxist Agendas
10/28 Peace beyond the Classical Schools in IR
. Research Design Workshop
11/4 The Contribution of Peace and Conflict Studies
11/11 Student Presentation
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Language of Instruction(教授言語の詳細)
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Grading Policy(成績評価基準)
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1. Class presentation about reading assignment
2. Active class participation based on critical reflection of reading assignments
3. Paper presentation in class
4. Research paper (about 2500-4000 words). Deadline: November 18, 2015
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Expected study hour outside class(授業時間外学習)
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References(参考文献)
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Introductions:
Barash, David, 1991, Introduction to Peace Studies, Wadsworth Pub., Belmond California. [319.8/B212i]
Barash, David P. and Charles P. Webel, 2002, Peace and Conflict Studies, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi. [319.8/B212p]
Brown, Michael; Cote, Owen R; Lynn-Jones, Seat M; Miller, Steven E. (eds.), 2000, Theories of War and Peace, The MIT Press, Cambridge Mass. and London, England. [319.8/Th34]
Ho-Won, Jeong, 1999, The New Agenda for Peace Research, Ashgate, Aldershot, Burlington, Singapore, Syndey. [319.8/J372n]
Ho-Won Jeong (ed.), 2001, Peace and Conflict Studies. An Introduction, Ashgate, Aldershot, Burlington, Singapore, Syndey. [319.8/J372p]
Nye, Joseph S. Jr., 1999, Understanding International Conflict. An Introduction to Theory and Justice, Longman. [319.8/N9999u]
Cashman, Greg . 2000. What Causes War? An Introduction to Theories of International Conflict. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Lexington Books
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Learning Support Resources for Students (学生のための学修支援リソース)
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If there are learning support resources that are especially recommended for this course, they will be listed below.
Here (ICU Internal page) is the list of learning support resources available at ICU.
このコースで特に利用を推奨する学修支援リソースがある場合、以下に記載されます。
ICUで利用可能なリソースの一覧は こちらです （学内ウェブサイト）。
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Notes(注意事項)
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Schedule(スケジュール)
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4/W,5/W
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