Syllabus - summer 2015

Halvard Buhaug: Conflict Trends (June 23, 2015)

•  Themnér, Lotta and Peter Wallensteen. 2012. “Armed Conflicts, 1946 to 2011.” Journal of Peace Research, 49 (4): 565-575 (10 p).
• Pinker, Steven and Andrew Mack, 2014. ‘The World is Not Falling Apart’, pp 1-6, in SLATE (17 p).

Wenche Hauge: Causes and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation. Concept and Approaches (June 24, 2015)

• Hauge, Wenche & Tanja Ellingsen, 1998.  ‘Beyond Environmental Scarcity: Causal Pathways  to Conflict’,  Journal of Peace Research, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 299-319 (20 p).
• Wallensteen, Peter (ed.), 2011. ‘Armed Conflicts and Peace Agreements’, chapter 2, pp. 13-32, in Understanding Conflict Resolution. London: SAGE (19 p).
• Dessler, David, 1994. ‘How to Sort Causes in the Study of Environmental Change and Violent Conflict’, pp. 94-112, in Nina Græger & Dan Smith (eds), Environment, Poverty, Conflict.  PRIO Report No. 2/94. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute (18 p).
• Collier, Paul, and Anke Hoeffler. 2004. Greed and grievance in civil war. Oxford Economic Papers 56(4):563-595 (32 p). 
• Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. 2003. Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war. American Political Science Review, 97(1):75-90 (15 p).
• Frances Stewart, ed. (2008). Horizontal inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 3-24 (21 p).

Torunn Tryggestad: Gender and Peace Processes (June 25, 2015)

• Boulding, Elise (1984) 'Focus On: The Gender Gap', Journal of Peace Research, 21 (1). (3p)
• Brewer, John D. (2010) 'Gender', chapter 4 in Peace Processes. A Sociological Approach, Cambridge: Polity Press (34 p).
• Detraz, Nicole (2012), 'Understanding Gender in Security Debates' (Chapter 1) and 'Conclusion - The Contributions of Gender Lenses to Security' (Chapter 7) in International Security and Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press (23 + 14 p).

Siri Rustad: Resources and Conflict (June 26, 2015)

• Lujala, Päivi, 2009. ‘Deadly Combat over Natural Resources: Gems, Petroleum, Drugs, and the Severity of Armed Conflict’, Journal  of Conflict Resolution, 53 (1): 50-70 (20 p).
• Rustad, Siri Aas, Päivi, Lujala and Philippe le Billion, 2012. ‘Building or Spoiling peace? Lessons from the Management of High-value Natural Resources’, chapter 37, pp. 570-620, in (eds.) Lujala, Päivi and Siri Aas Rustad, High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. London: Earthscan. (50 p).

Kai Egon Kverme: The War in Syria: The End of a Family and the Birth of a Nation (July 2, 2015)

• Ruiz, Laura de Elvira and Tina Zintl, 2014. 'The End of the Ba'athist Social Contract in Bashar al-Asad's Syria: Reading Sociopolitical Transformations through Charities and Broader Benevolent Activism, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46 (Special Issue 2): 329-349 (20 p).
• The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, 2012.  Building the Syrian State. (A Plan by the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood).

Lynn Nygaard: Academic Reading, Writing and Methodology (July 3, 2015)

• Nygard, Lynn, P. (ed), 2008. ‘Who are you talking to? Defining your audience’, chapter 4, pp. 61-75, in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. Copenhagen: LIBER. Copenhagen Business School Press. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (14 p).
• Nygard, Lynn, P. (ed), 2008. ‘What do you want to say? Forming your core argument’, chapter 5, pp. 78-94, in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. Copenhagen: LIBER. Copenhagen Business School Press. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget (16 p).

Øystein Rolandsen: Conflict in South Sudan (July 6, 2015)

• De Waal, Alex, 2014. ‘When Kleptocracy Becomes Insolvent: Brute Causes of the Civil War in South Sudan,’  African Affairs 113 (452) July  1: 347–69 (22 p).
• Rolandsen, Øystein H., 2015. ‘Another Civil War in South Sudan: The Failure of Guerrilla Government?’ Journal of Eastern African Studies 9 (1) January 2: 163–74 (11 p).
• Rolandsen, Øystein H., Helene Molteberg Glomnes, Sebabatso Manoeli, and Fanny Nicolaisen, 2015. ‘A Year of South Sudan’s Third Civil War.” International Area Studies Review, 18 (1): 87–104. (17 p).

Helga Binningsbø: Power Sharing in Conflict Resolution Processes (July 7, 2015)

• Binningsbø, Helga Malmin, 2013. ‘Power Sharing, Peace and Democracy: Any Obvious Relationships?’ International Area Studies Review 16 (1): 89-112 (23 p).
• Jarstad, Anna K, 2008. ‘Power Sharing Former Enemies in Joint Government’ in Anna K Jarstad & Timothy D. Sisk eds. From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (105-133) (28 p).

Iselin Frydenlund: Religion in Peacebuilding. Possibilities and Pitfalls (July 8, 2015)

• Frydenlund, Iselin, 2013. ‘Religion, civility and conflict – towards a concept of critical civility’, Studies in interreligious dialogue,  23, (1): 109-124 (15 p).
• Leirvik, Oddbjørn (ed), 2014. ‘Introduction: Religious Activism, Interfaith Dialogue and interreligious Studies’, pp. 1-7  in Interreligious Studies: A Relational Approach to Religious Activism and the Study of Religion. London: Bloomsbury (7 p).

J.Peter Burgess: What is Security? (July 13, 2015)

• Wæver, O. ,2000. ‘What is Security? The Securityness of Security’, pp. 222-254 in Hansen, B. (ed) European Security Identities--2000. Copenhagen, Copenhagen Political Studies Press (32 p).
• Burgess, J. Peter (2007) ‘Non Military Security Challenges’, pp. 60-71 in Contemporary Security and Strategy, Craig A. Snyder (Ed.), London, Palgrave 2007 (11 p).

Wenche Hauge: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. An Introduction (July 14, 2015)

• Boutros-Ghali, B. (1992). An agenda for peace: preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, and peace-keeping: Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to the statement adopted by the summit meeting of the Security Council on 31 January 1992, New York: United Nations.
• Lidén Kristoffer, 2009. 'Building Peace between Global and Local Politics: The Cosmopolitical Ethics of Liberal Peacebuilding', International Peacekeeping, 16 ( 5): 616-634 (18 p).
• Wallensteen, Peter (ed.), 2011. ‘Understanding Conflict Resolution’, chapter 1, pp. 3-12,  in Understanding Conflict Resolution. London: SAGE (9 p).
• Miall, Hugh; Woodhouse, Toln & Ramsbotham, 2011. ‘Ending Violent Conflict: Peacemaking’, in O. Ramsbotham, T. Woodhouse, and H. Miall, Contemporary Conflict Resolution, 3rd ed. (2011), Ch. 7 (pp. 171-197). Cambridge: Polity (26 p).
• Muggah, Robert, 2013. ‘The political economy of statebuilding in Haiti: Informal resistance to security-first statebuilding’. In Political Economy of Statebuilding: Power after Peace, ed   Mads Berdal and Dominik Zaum. Routledge, London and New York, 293-305 (12 p).
• Wallensteen, Peter and Frida Möller, 2011. 'Conflict prevention: methodology for knowing the unknown', chapter 10, pp. 125-143 in (ed.) Peter Wallensteen, Peace Research: Theory and Practice.London and New York: Routledge (18 p).
• Doucet, Charlier Rachelle, 2012. Local Models of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management in the South-East and South-West of Haiti. PRIO Paper. PRIO & CERDECS.

Nobuo Hayashi: International Humanitarian Law (July 16, 2015)

• Carl von Clausewitz, On War, Michael Howard and Peter Petit (eds. trans.), book 1, chap. 1, pp. 75-89 (14 p).
• Robert Kolb and Richard Hyde, 2008.  An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts . Chaps. 1-5: pp 1-33.  Hart Publishing. (33 p).

Nobuo Hayashi: International Criminal Law (July 17, 2015)

• Cassese, Antonio; Paola Gaeta; Laurel Baig; Mary Fan; Christopher Gosnell and Alex Whiting, 2013 (rev). Chaps. 1-3 (pp. 3-63) in Cassese's International Criminal Law, 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (60 p).

Kristian Berg Harpviken: Peacebuilding and Peacemaking in the War on Terror: Afghanistan 2001 to the Present (July 20, 2015)

·       Harpviken, Kristian Berg, 2013. Initiatives to foster an Afghan peace process, 2001-12: a role for Norway? NOREF Report. January 2013. Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (12 p).

• Roland, Paris, 2013. ‘Afghanistan: What Went Wrong?’  Review Essay. Perspectives on Politics,  11 (2): 538-548 (10 p).

Wenche Hauge: Norwegian Perspectives on Peacebuilding (July 21, 2015)

• Skånland, Ø.H. (2010) ‘Norway is a peace nation: A discourse analytic reading of the Norwegian peace engagement,’ Cooperation and Conflict, 45: 34-54 (20 p).
• Zambrano Liliana and Felipe Gómez Isa, 2013. Participation of civil society in the Colombian peace process.  NOREF Report. July 2013. Oslo: Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (7 p).

Stein Tønneson: Explaining the East Asian Peace(July 24, 2015)

• Tønnesson, S. (2009). What is it that best explains the East Asian Peace Since 1979? A research agenda. Asian Perspectives 33(1): 111-136 (25 p).
• Tønnesson, S. with Erik Melander, Elin Bjarnegård, Isak Svensson and Susanne Schaftenaar (2013), ‘The Fragile Peace in East and South East Asia’, in SIPRI Yearbook 2013: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 28‒40 (12 p).

Henrik Syse: Just War Theory (July 27, 2015)

• Amstutz, Mark, 1999. ‘Morality and Foreign Policy’, in Mark Amstutz, ed., International Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 1-25 (25 p).
• Fotion, Nicholas, 2000. ‘Reactions to Force: Pacifism, Realism and Just War Theory’, in Andrew Valls, ed., Ethics in International Affairs. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield pp. 1-12  (12 p).

Wenche Hauge: Gender in Demobilization. The Case of Guatemala (July 28, 2015)

• Hauge, Wenche and Beate Thoresen, 2008. ‘The Fate of Former Combatants in Guatemala: Spoilers or Agents for Change?’ ch. 8, pp. 210-234 in Stephen Baranyi (ed.), The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post 9/11. UBC Press: Vancouver (24 p).
• Hauge, Wenche, 2008. ‘Group Identity – A Neglected Asset: Determinants of Political Participation among Ex Female Fighters in Guatemala’, Conflict Security and Development,
• 8 (3): 295-316 (21 p).