This course aims to examine in depth the subjects of peace studies and conflict resolution. It also strives to expose course participants to historical and contemporary issues of peace studies and conflict resolution, including the emergence of the two subjects. In view of the enormous significance and importance of the need for creating awareness among people for peace, attempts will be made to examine linkage between peace and conflict resolution with particular reference to the role of state, organizations, civil society, media research think tanks.
Origins of peace studies as a separate discipline
Concepts, theories and approaches of peace
The contribution of peace movements and peace groups
The role of State, society and various institutions for strengthening the field of peace studies
Peace studies in international and regional perspectives
Impediments to peace
Non-Violence and Peace
Security and Peace
Linkage between peace studies and conflict resolution
Impediments for establishing the culture of Peace
Peace studies in South Asia
Major issues in peace studies and the challenges ahead
Definitions of Conflict Resolution (CR) and Conflict Management (CM) Conflict Transformation, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Provention
Types of conflict and their relevance in contemporary era
Basic concepts, approaches and theories of CR
Roads to CR: Negotiations, Bargaining, Mediation, Arbitration, Adjudication
CR research, CR simulation exercises, CR workshop
The role of conflict resolution centers and institutes
6. Case studies of CR
Major players in the resolution of conflict
The process of CR in Pakistan
SUGGESTED READINGS
Books
1. Amstutz, Mark, R. International Conflict and Cooperation. Madison: Brown & Benchmark, 1995
2. Avruch, Kevin Culture & Conflict Resolution Washington DC: United
States Institute of Peace, 1998
3. Avruch, Kevin. et.al. Conflict Resolution Cross Cultural Perspectives New York:
Greenwood Press, 1991
4. Baylis, John, et.al Contemporary Strategy: Theories and Policies. London:
Croom Helm, 1976
5. Banks, Michael Conflict in World Society: a new perspective on international Relations Brighton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1984
6. Bartlett, C.J. The Global Conflict 1880 to 1970. London: Longmans, 1984.
7. Bokhari, Imtiaz, H. Management of Third World Crises In Adverse Partnership Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1998
8. Bright, Brock-Utne, Education for Peace: A Feminist Perspective. New York:
Pergamon Press Inc., 1985
9. Burton, John and Conflict: Readings in Management and Resolution London:
Dukes, Frank. Macmillan, 1990
10. David P. Barash Introduction to Peace Studies. Belmon: Wadsworth, 1991
11. Ho-Won Jeong, Understanding Conflict and Conflict Analysis London: Sage,
2008
12. James, Calleja (ed.), The Essential of Peace. Msida, Malta: Mireva Publications, 1996
13. Johan Galtung, Carl
G. Jaconson Searching for Peace. The Road to Transcend London: Pluto Press, 2000.
14. Kliot, N. The political geography of conflict and peace London:
Belhaven, 1991
15. Krepon, Michael, and Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation Sevak, Amit (eds.), between India and Pakistan Lahore: Vanguard Books (Pvt.)
Ltd., 1996
16. Kenneth, E. Boulding Stable Peace. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978
17. Lebow, R.N. Between Peace and War. The Nature of International Crisis Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981
18. Miall, Hugh, Contemporary Conflict Resolution. The prevention, Ramsbotham, Management and transformation of deadly conflicts Woodhouse, Tom Oxford: Polity, 2003
19. Munro, D. A World Record of Major Conflict Areas London: Arnold,
1990
20. Rupesinghe, Kumar, Civil Wars, Civil Peace, An Introduction to Conflict Resolution London: Pluto Press, 1998
20 .Schellenberg, James, Conflict Resolution. Theory, Research And Practice New
York: State University of New York, 1996
21.Waslekar, Sundeep, A Handbook for Conflict Resolution In South Asia New
Delhi: Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 1996
22. Wallensteen, Peter, Understanding Conflict Resolution, War, Peace and the Global System London: Sage Publications, 2003
23. Webel, Charles, P Peace and Conflict Studies A Reader London: Routledge, 2012 (eds.)
24. And Johnson. Jorgen Conflict Prevention: Strategies to sustain peace in the post-cold war world. Report of the Aspen Institute Conference July 30-August 3, 1996
25. Washington: Aspen Institute, 1997 Managing conflict in the post-cold war world: The role of information.
BIISS Journal (Dhaka)
Current History (Philadelphia)
Conflict Management (New Delhi)
Foreign Affairs, (New York)
IPRI Journal (Islamabad)
Journal of Conflict Resolution (Ann Arbor)
Journal of Peace Research (Oslo)
Peace Perspectives (Mumbai)
Peace Studies (New Delhi)
Word Affairs (New Delhi)
(PROF. DR. MOONIS AHMAR)
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