Irish School of Ecumenics, Belfast
Semester Abroad in Northern Ireland for Visiting Undergraduates 2013-14
Module
code
Module
name
EM3001
EM3002
EM3003
Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Social and Political Reconciliation Lessons from the Peace Process in
NortNorthern Ireland
Semester
taught
ECTS
weighting
Contact
hours
Content/
description
Michaelmas & Hilary
Michaelmas & Hilary
Michaelmas & Hilary
Social Enterprise and Political
Reconciliation in Northern
Ireland
Michaelmas & Hilary
10
10
10
10
24
24
24
24
This module introduces
approaches to conflict analysis
and relationships between
conflict, culture and identity. It
also considers models of
intervention such as conflict
management, resolution and
transformation, and peace
building.
3500– 4000 word assignment
The module looks at the
peacemaking and peacebuilding
aspects of the Irish Peace Process,
with particular attention to the
national and international
peacemaking dialogues that
contributed to the Good Friday
Agreement and subsequent steps
in peacebuilding towards a shared
society. It also looks at interest in
the Irish Peace Process in the wider
field of conflict studies, and what
might be learnt from the Irish
experience.
3500– 4000 word assignment
This module involves a
placement in a local social
enterprise organisation in the
peace-building, community
relations field.
Assessment
details
Develops a fuller, more complex,
and more systematic interdisciplinary understanding of
theoretical and practical
approaches to the puzzle of
reconciliation. It explores the key
challenges in transforming
personal, social and structural
relationships that have been
damaged or destroyed by conflict
to show how ‘all the pieces
matter’ if a reconciliation process
is to have any prospective of
success.
3500– 4000 word assignment
These modules are only available to students who are doing the Semester in Northern Ireland programme in Belfast.
EM3004
3500-4000 word assignment