Syllabus

All articles and book chapters will be available either in a printed compendia handed out for free first day of classes or online. 

Maria Jumbert

“Security, Humanitarianism and Politics at the EU’s external borders”

•    Katja Franko Aas and Helene O. I. Gundhus, “Policing Humanitarian Borderlands: Frontex, Human Rights and the Precariousness of Life”, British Journal of Criminology, 55, 2015. 

Torunn Tryggestad 

“Gender and Peace Processes”

•    UN Women (2015), ‘Women’s Participation and Better Understanding of the Political’, Chapter 3, Preventing Conflict, Transforming Justice, Securing the Peace. A Global Study on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, pp. 37-62. 

Lynn Nygaard 

Academic reading and writing

•    Nygard, Lynn P., 2015. ‘Who are you talking to? Defining your audience’, chapter 4, pp 59-78 in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. 2nd edition. London: SAGE.

•    Nygard, Lynn P., 2008. ‘What do you want to say? Forming your core argument’, chapter 5, pp. 79-98, in Writing for Scholars. A Practical Guide to Making Sense and being Heard. 2nd edition. London: SAGE.

Wenche Hauge 

“Causes and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation: Concepts and Approaches”

•    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)

•    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).

“Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding – Introduction: The Haitian Case”

•    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). 

Stein Tønneson

“Explaining the East Asian Peace”

•    Stein Tønnesson (2015). "The East Asian Peace: How Did It Happen? How Deep Is It?", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4. 

•    Stein Tønnesson (2015). "Explaining East Asia's Developmental Peace: the Dividends of Economic Growth",  Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4.

•    Joakim Kreutz (2015). "Outsiders Matter: External Actors and the Decline of Armed Conflict in Southeast Asia", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4.

•    Börje Ljunggren (2015). "The Chinese Dream: Does it Challenge East Asia’s Peace?", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4. 

•    Isak Svensson (2015). "A Surprising Calm: the Religious Peace in East Asia", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4.

•    Elin Bjarnegård (2015). "Addressing Fear and Injustice to Create an East Asian Culture of Peace", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4. 

•    Kristine Eck (2015). "Cracking Down on Conflict: East Asia’s Repressive Peace", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4. 

•    Holly L. Guthrey (2015). "Forgetting Undermines the East Asian Peace", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4. 

•    Erik Melander (2015). "Gender and Masculine Honor Ideology: Why They Matter for Peace", Global Asia, Vol. 10, No. 4. 

Nobuo Hayashi

“International Criminal Law”

•    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)

Kendra Dupuy

“Greed and Grievance Theory”    

•    Collier, Paul & Anke Hoeffler. 2004. “Greed and Grievance”. Oxford Economic Papers, 56(4): 563–595.

Eirik Vold

“Latin America in the 21st Century: The Geopolitical Shift”

•    Reggie Thompson “The New Latin America”, Geopolitical Weekly NOVEMBER 3, 2015   

•    Alexander Main & Dan Beeton “The Latin America WikiLeaks Files” Jacobinmag https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/latin-america-wikileaks-hugo-chavez-rafael-correa-obama-venezuela-intervention/ retrieved 15/5 - 16 

Inger Skjelsbæk

“Sexual Violence in Conflict”

•    Skjelsbæk, Inger 2015. “The Military Perpetrator: A Narrative Analysis of Sentencing Judgments on Sexual Violence Offenders at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)” Journal of Social and Political Psychology Volume 3, edition 1, 46-70

•    Skjelsbæk, Inger 2006. “Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina” Feminism and Psychology Volume 16, edition 4

Sanjib Baruah

"Nations, States and Identities:  India and its Northeast"

•    Walker Connor, “A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group is a …”Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 1, Issue 4, 1978

Henrik Syse

“Just War Theory”

•    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).

Halvard Buhaug

“Environment and Security”

•    Bernauer T et al. 2012 “Environmental changes and armed conflict” Environmental Research Letters 7, 015601 (8pp) 

“Inequality and Conflict”

•    Buhaug H et al. 2014 “Square Pegs in Round Holes: Inequalities, Grievances, and Civil War” International Studies Quarterly 58

Henrik Urdal

“Conflict trends”

•    Gleditsch Nils Petter, Erik Melander & Henrik Urdal, 2016. ‘Introduction – Patterns of Armed Conflict since 1945’. Chapter 1 in David Mason & Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, eds, What Do We Know About Civil War? Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Marta Bivand Erdal

“Diaspora, Development and Peacebuilding”

•    Orjuela, Camilla 2008 “Distant warriors, distant peace workers? Multiple diaspora roles in Sri Lanka’s violent conflict“ Global Networks 8, 4 

Noor Jdid

“Who is the Passive Citizen? Re-visiting the concept of Active Citizenship”

•    Lister, Ruth “Citizenship: Towards a feminist synthesis” Feminist Review no. 57 autumn 1997, pp. 28-48

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