All articles not available online will be handed out in a printed compendia first day of classes.
June 25 – Kendra Dupuy, course introduction; and Torunn Tryggestad, Women Peace and Security
Readings to be announced
June 26 & 27 – Cabin trip
Readings to be announced
July 2 – Henrik Urdal, What is Peace Research?
Required:
Gleditsch NP; E Melander & H Urdal. (2016). “Introduction – Patterns of Armed Conflict since 1945”. Chapter 1 in D Mason & S McLaughlin Mitchell, eds, What Do We Know About Civil War? Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 15-32.
Gleditsch, Nils Petter. (2008). “The Liberal Moment Fifteen Years On”, International Studies Quarterly 52(4): 691–712. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1468-2478.2008.00522.x)
Supplementary reading:
Gleditsch, Nordkvelle & Strand: “Peace Research – Just the study of war?” (14pp)
Hegre “Democracy and armed conflict” (13pp)
Schneider “Peace through globlization and capitalism?’”(11pp)
Goldstein, Joshua S. (2011). Winning the War on War. The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide. New York: Dutton/Penguin
Pinker, Steven. (2011). The Better Angels of Our Nature. Why Violence Has Declined. New York: Viking
Wiberg, Håkan. (1981). “JPR 1964–1980 – What Have We Learnt About Peace?” Journal of Peace Research 18(2): 111–148
Dupuy, Kendra, et al. (2016). “Trends in Armed Conflict, 1946-2015”. PRIO Conflict Trends Policy Brief. https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=9309
Dupuy, Kendra, et al. (2016). “State Fragility and Armed Conflict”. PRIO Conflict Trends Policy Brief. https://www.prio.org/Publications/Publication/?x=9292
July 3 – Ragnhild Nordås, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Cohen, Dara Kay. (2013). “Explaining rape during civil war: Cross-national evidence (1980–2009)”. American Political Science Review 107.3: 461-477. (https://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/files/wappp/files/explaining_rape_during_civil_war.pdf?m=1407337002)
Cohen, Dara Kay, and Ragnhild Nordås. (2014). “Sexual violence in armed conflict: Introducing the SVAC dataset, 1989–2009”. Journal of Peace Research 51.3: 418-428. (https://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/files/wappp/files/journal_of_peace_research-2014-cohen-418-28.pdf?m=1408556534)
July 4 – Kristian Berg Harpviken, The Afghanistan Conflict
https://blogs.prio.org/2017/11/conflict-portrait-afghanistan/
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_nf_gopal_interv.html#.WrC5bejwY2w
https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/09faceca099c4b8bac85ca8495e12d2d/en-gb/pdfs/nou201620160008000engpdfs.pdf (Chapter 1, “Summary”, pp. 11 – 15)
July 4 – Bruno Oliveira Martins, War in the 21st Century: Technology and Security
Ceyhan, A. (2008) Technologization of Security: Management of Uncertainty and Risk in the Age of Biometrics. Surveillance & Society 5(2): 102-123 (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/52e3/9826a2b695011d57de2c5d2b45c053f65943.pdf)
Wilcox, L (2017) Embodying algorithmic war: Gender, race, and the posthuman in drone warfare, Security Dialogue 48 (1) (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0967010616657947)
Feenberg (2005) Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview, Tailoring Biotechnologies 1 (1): 47-64 (https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/books/critbio.pdf)
July 5 – Stein Tønnesson, The East Asian Peace
Tønnesson, Stein. (2017). “Peace by Development” in E. Bjarnegård and J. Kreutz, eds. Debating the East Asian Peace. Copenhagen: NIAS Press: 55–77.
E. Bjarnegård, K. Eck, H. Guthrey, J. Kreutz, E. Melander, I. Svensson, S. Tønnesson (2017). “The East Asian Peace: Will it Last?” in E. Bjarnegård and J. Kreutz, eds. Debating the East Asian Peace. Copenhagen: NIAS Press: 281–296.
East Asia’s Surprising Peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZLQ0vmxi68&feature=youtu.be
July 5 - Bruno Oliveira Martins, The European Union and Security
Duke (2018) 'The Enigmatic Role of Defence in the EU: From EDC to EDU?' European Foreign Affairs Review 23 (1): 63–80
Cross (2016) ‘The EU Global Strategy and diplomacy’ Contemporary Security Policy37 (3) (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13523260.2016.1237820#aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGFuZGZvbmxpbmUuY29tL2RvaS9wZGYvMTAuMTA4MC8xMzUyMzI2MC4yMDE2LjEyMzc4MjA/bmVlZEFjY2Vzcz10cnVlQEBAMA)
Bigo (2014) The (in)securitization practices of the three universes of EU border control: Military/Navy – border guards/police – database analysts’, Security Dialogue45 (3) (http://spire.sciencespo.fr/hdl:/2441/778109gh7i8l9913sgfus229ht/resources/security-dialogue-2014-bigo-209-25-2.pdf
July 6 – Solveig Hillesund, Inequalities, Conflict Onset, and Conflict Resolution
*Repeated from last year, with new optional readings
Cederman, L.E., et al. (2011). “Horizontal Inequality and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison”. American Political Science Review 105(3): 478-495. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/horizontal-inequalities-and-ethnonationalist-civil-war-a-global-comparison/840A4D0FA634987190FD73A38E136860/core-reader)
Østby. G. (2013). “Inequality and Political violence: A review of the literature”. International Area Studies Review 16(2): 206-231. (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.881.5627&rep=rep1&type=pdf)
Stewart, F. (2002). “Horizontal Inequalities: A neglected Dimension of Development” QEH Working Paper Series – QEHWPS81 (http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/sites/www.odid.ox.ac.uk/files/www3_docs/qehwps81.pdf)
Optional:
Langer, Arnim. (2005). “Horizontal Inequalities and Violent Group Mobilization in Cote d’Ivoire”. Oxford Development Studies, 33(1): 25-45.
Hillesund, Solveig. (2015). “A Dangerous Discrepancy: Testing the Micro-Dynamics of Horizontal Inequality on Palestinian Support for Armed Resistance”. Journal of Peace Research, 52(1): 76-90.
Bahgat, Karim, et al. (2018). Inequality and Armed Conflict: Evidence and Data. Oslo: PRIO Report.
July 9 – Halvard Buhaug, The Environment & Conflict
Theisen, Ole M. (2017). Climate change and violence: Insights from political science. Current Climate Change Reports, 3(4): 210–221.
von Uexkull, Nina, et al. (2016). Civil conflict sensitivity to growing-season drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 113(44): 12391–12396.
July 10 – Henrik Syse, Just War
Amstutz, Mark. (1999). ‘Morality and Foreign Policy’, in Mark Amstutz, ed., International Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 1-25
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
Kristoffer Lidén and Henrik Syse, “The Politics of Peace and Law”. In: Promoting Peace through International Law (eds. Cecilia Baillet and Kjetil M. Larsen, Oxford UP), pp. 21-42.
July 11 – Lynn Nygaard, Writing and Presenting for Academic and Policy Audiences
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.
July 16 – Siri Rus Aastad, Natural Resources & Conflict
Koubi, V., et al. (2013). “Do Natural Resources matter for interstate and intrastate armed conflict?” Journal of Peace Research 51(2): 227-243.
Ross, M. (2015). “What have we learned about the Resource Curse?” Annual Review of Political Science 18: 239-259.
Rustad S et al. (2012). “Building or Spoiling Peace? Lessons from the management of high-value natural resources” chapter in High-Value Natural resources and Peacebuilding ed Lujala & Rustad, Environmental Law Institute and United Nations Environment Programme.
July 17 – Kendra Dupuy, Causal Theories of Civil War
Collier, Paul, and Anke Hoeffler. (2004). “Greed and grievance in civil war”. Oxford Economic Papers 56(4):563-595.
Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. (2003). “Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war”. American Political Science Review, 97(1): 75-90.
July 18 – Kendra Dupuy, Peace Negotiations & Agreements
Luttwak, Edvard. (1999). “Give War a Chance”, Foreign Affairs 78(4): 36-44.
Stedman, Stephen John. (1997). “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes”. International Security, 22(2): 5-53.
July 19 – Kendra Dupuy, Education and Youth in Conflict and Post-Conflict
Lai, B. & Thyne, C. (2007). The effect of civil war on education, 1980–97. Journal of Peace Research, 44, 277–292.
Thyne, C. (2006). ABC’s, 123’s, and the golden rule: The pacifying effect of education on civil war, 1980–1999. International Studies Quarterly, 50, 733–754.
July 23 – Kendra Dupuy, Peacebuilding Theories
Lambourne, Wendy, and Annie Herro. (2008). “Peacebuilding Theory and the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission: Implications for non-UN Interventions”. Global Change, Peace & Security, 20(3): 275-289.
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. http://www.un-documents.net/a47-277.htm
Paris, Roland. 2010. “Saving Liberal Peacebuilding”. Review of International Studies, 36: 337-365.
July 24 – Wenche Hauge, Peacebuilding: DDR & Gender
Jennings, Kathleen, M. (2009). ‘The Political Economy of DDR in Liberia: a gendered critique’, Conflict, Security & Development, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 475-494.
Vess, Joseph; Gary Barker; Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini and Alexa Hassink. (2013). The Other Side of Gender: Men as Critical Agents of Change. Special Report. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
July 25 – Kendra Dupuy, The DR Congo Wars and Peacekeeping
Tull, Dennis. (2018). “The Limits and Unintended Consequences of UN Peace Enforcement: The Force Intervention Brigade in the DR Congo”. International Peacekeeping, 25(2): 167-190.
Rosen, Armin. (2013). “The Origins of the War in the DRC”. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/the-origins-of-war-in-the-drc/277131/
August 1 – Cindy Horst, Diasporas and Peacebuilding
Tellander, Ebba, and Cindy Horst. (2017). “A Foreign Policy Actor of Importance? The Role of the Somali Diaspora in Shaping Norwegian Policy Towards Somalia”. Foreign Policy Analysis, 0: 1-19.
Lyons, Terrence. (2007). “Conflict-Generated Diasporas and Transnational Politics in Ethiopia”. Conflict, Security & Development, 7(4): 529-549.