KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL OR REVISION,
Cover Sheet (10/02/2002)
Course Number/Program Name INCM 9001/International Conflict Management
Department College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Degree Title (if applicable) Ph.D. in International Conflict Management
Proposed Effective Date Fall 2010
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Notes:
If proposed changes to an existing course are substantial (credit hours, title, and description), a new course with a
new number should be proposed.
A new Course Proposal (Sections II, III, IV, V, VII) is required for each new course proposed as part of a new
program. Current catalog information (Section I) is required for each existing course incorporated into the
program.
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GRADUATE COURSE/CONCENTRATION/PROGRAM CHANGE
I.
Current Information (Fill in for changes)
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Course Prefix and Number
Course Title
Credit Hours
Prerequisites
Description (or Current Degree Requirements)
II.
Proposed Information (Fill in for changes and new courses)
Course Prefix and Number INCM 9001_____________________
Course Title _Theories and Analysis in International Conflict
Management________________
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Credit Hours 3-0-3
Prerequisites Admission to the Ph.D. Program
Description (or Proposed Degree Requirements)
This course focuses on the theories and research in the international arena
through which to analyze conflicts. These include, but are not limited to,
culture, gender, economics, ethnicity, race, history, geography, resources,
and religion. Students examine the emergence of the Conflict Management
field, as well as the historical perspectives and current theories in the field
of Conflict Management. This course provides an overview of the
terminology of the field as well as various perspectives for studying the
continuum of war and peace making. Students will examine the paradigms
and worldviews through which parties view conflict and consider the
possible outcomes based on those paradigms and evaluate Conflict
Management methodologies for conducting research based on various
paradigms, worldviews, and conflict situations. Students will have the
opportunity to select an area of particular interest and examine current
research and practices in that realm.
III.
Justification
This course provides the theoretical and conceptual foundations for the
degree and will help the student understand the current era, one marked by
intensification of globalization, the impact of technology, and deepening
interconnection of people and institutions. Fulfillment of this course will
also provide the student with a thorough grounding in the fundamental
concepts of the contemporary study of international conflict and
resolution.
IV.
Additional Information (for New Courses only)
Instructor: Linda Johnston, Ph.D.
Text:
Prerequisites: Admission to the Ph.D. Program
Objectives:
 Understand the broad range of theories related to International Conflict coming from
fields such as Psychology, Sociology, Law, Communications, Criminal Justice, and
others.
 Understand the conflict analysis process and intervention strategies.
 Apply Conflict Management theories in the international context to explain and
predict the course and stages of conflict.
 Predict the utility of various interventions based on predictions from theory.
 Become aware of own personal and cultural assumptions about the causes of conflict
and how it should be resolved.
Instructional Method
-class discussion
Method of Evaluation
-presentation and research paper
V.
Resources and Funding Required (New Courses only)
Resource
Amount
Faculty
Other Personnel
Equipment
Supplies
Travel
New Books
New Journals
Other (Specify)
TOTAL
Funding Required Beyond
Normal Departmental Growth
The costs are included in the overall cost for the new Ph.D. program and are not separate.
VI. COURSE MASTER FORM
This form will be completed by the requesting department and will be sent to the Office of the
Registrar once the course has been approved by the Office of the President.
The form is required for all new courses.
DISCIPLINE
COURSE NUMBER
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Grades Allowed (Regular or S/U)
If course used to satisfy CPC, what areas?
Learning Support Programs courses which are
required as prerequisites
INCM
9001
Theories & Analysis in Intl CM
3-0-3
Fall 2010
Regular
APPROVED:
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Vice President for Academic Affairs or Designee __
VII Attach Syllabus
INCM 9001: Theories and Analysis in International Conflict Management
Ph.D. Program in International Conflict Management
Kennesaw State University
I. Professor Contact Information
Dr. Linda M. Johnston
Center for Conflict Management
SO 5034
Phone: 678.797.2233
Fax: 770423.6299
Mobile: 404.729.6162
Ljohnst9@kennesaw.edu
Office hours by appointment
II. Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, and/or Other Restrictions
Admission to the Ph.D. Program
III. Course Description
This course focuses on the theories and research in the international arena through which to analyze conflicts. These
include, but are not limited to, culture, gender, economics, ethnicity, race, history, geography, resources, and
religion. Students examine the emergence of the Conflict Management field, as well as the historical perspectives
and current theories in the field of Conflict Management. This course provides an overview of the terminology of
the field as well as various perspectives for studying the continuum of war and peace making. Students will examine
the paradigms and worldviews through which parties view conflict and consider the possible outcomes based on
those paradigms and evaluate Conflict Management methodologies for conducting research based on various
paradigms, worldviews, and conflict situations. Students will have the opportunity to select an area of particular
interest and examine current research and practices in that realm.
IV. Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes
 Understand the broad range of theories related to International Conflict coming from fields such as
Psychology, Sociology, Law, Communications, Criminal Justice, and others.
 Understand the conflict analysis process and intervention strategies.
 Apply Conflict Management theories in the international context to explain and predict the course and
stages of conflict.
 Predict the utility of various interventions based on predictions from theory.
 Become aware of own personal and cultural assumptions about the causes of conflict and how it should
be resolved.
V. Textbooks and Materials
Christopher Mitchell: The Structure of International Conflict
Dennis Sandole: Capturing the Complexity of Conflict
Johan Galtung: Peace by Peaceful Means
Online articles to be provided
Selected case study book; Please choose one from the following list:
1.
Ash, Timothy G. (2002). The Polish revolution: Solidarity. 3rd ed: New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN #0300095686
2.
Conroy, John. (1995). Belfast Diary: War as a way of life. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN #0807002178
3.
Eltringham, Nigel. (2004). Accounting for horror: Post-genocide debates in Rwanda. Sterling, VA: Pluto
Press. ISBN #0745320007
4.
Ganguly, Rajat & Macduff, Ian. (eds.) (2003). Ethnic conflict & secessionism in south & southeast Asia.:
Causes, dynamics, solutions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN #0761996044
5.
Gourevitch, Philip. (1998). We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories
from Rwanda. New York: Picador. ISBN #0312243359
6.
Hastings, Max., & Jenkins, Simon. (1984). The battle for the Falklands. 1st American ed. New York: Norton.
ISBN #0393301982
7.
Heinl, Robert D. & Heinl, Nancy G. (2005). Written in blood: The story of the Haitian people 1492-1995.
New York: University Press of America, Inc. ISBN #0761831770
8.
Hill, Fiona & Gaddy, Clifford. (2003). The Siberian curse: How Communist planners left Russia out in the
cold. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute. ISBN #0815736452
9.
Jonas, Susanne. (1991). The battle for Guatemala: Rebels, death squads, and U.S. power. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press. ISBN #0813306140
10. Jonas, Suzanne. (2000). Of centaurs and doves: Guatemala’s peace process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
ISBN #0813334683
11. Jones, Owen Bennett. (2003). Pakistan: Eye of the storm. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
ISBN #0300097603
12. Kirk, Robin. (2003). More terrible than death: Massacres, drugs, and America’s war in Columbia. New
York: Public Affairs. ISBN #1586481045
13. Koithara, Verghese. (2004). Crafting peace in Kashmir through a realist lens. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications. ISBN #0761932941
14. Krog, Antjie. (1999). Country of my skull: Guilt, sorrow, and the limits of forgiveness in the new South
Africa. 1st ed. New York: Random House. ISBN #0812931297
15. Lovell, W. George. (2000). A beauty that hurts: Life and death in Guatemala. Rev. ed. Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press. ISBN #0292747179
16. McFaul, Michael; Petrov, Nikolai; & Ryabov Andrei. (2004). Between dictatorship and democracy: Russian
post-communist political reform. Washington, D.C: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ISBN
#0870032062
17. Nasr, Seyyed. (2006) The Shia revival: how conflicts within Islam will shape the future. New York: W.W.
Norton and Co. ISBN #0393062112
18. Olcott, Martha B. (2002). Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled promise. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
ISBN #0870031880
19. Ottaway, Marina. (1993). South Africa: The struggle for a new order. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute.
ISBN #0815767153
20. Phadnis, Urmila & Ganguly, Rajat. (2001). Ethnicity and nation-building in south Asia. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage. ISBN #0761994394
21. Trenin, Dmitri & Malashenko Aleksei. (2004). Russia’s restless frontier: The Chechnya factor in post-soviet
Russia. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ISBN #0870032038
22. wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ. (1986). Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature,
Portsmouth, NH: James Currey Heinemann. ISBN #0435080164
23. Woodward, Susan. (1995). Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and dissolution after the cold war. Washington, D.C.:
Brookings Institute. ISBN #0815795130
VI. Course Outlines
Week 1:
Introduction to the course
Read: Christopher Mitchell: The Structure of International Conflict
Week 2:
Realism and Structural-Functionalism
Week 3:
Basic Human Needs
Case Study Choices Due
Week 4:
Relative Deprivation, Origins of Violence
Read: Dennis Sandole: Capturing the Complexity of Conflict
Week 5:
Theories of the Person and Identity
Week 6:
Theories of Worldview and Culture
Week 7:
Economies, Class and Conflict
Week 8:
Modernity, Globalization and Conflict
Read: Johan Galtung: Peace by Peaceful Means
Week 9:
Ethnic Conflict
Week 10:
Power and Resistance
Week 11:
Nationalism and Social Revolution
Read:
Selected Case Study Book
Week 12:
Post-Modernism
Week 13:
Interventions and Resolutions
Week 14:
Case Study Oral Presentations
Week 15:
Case Study Oral Presentations
VII. Grading Policy
Grades will be calculated as follows:
Oral Presentation: 15%
Research Paper: 85%
The research paper is a critical element of the course. The students should select a case study from the list which
mirrors their interests in the field of International Conflict Management. This will serve as the basis for a 15-minute
in-class oral presentation. Finally, building on this discussion, students will submit a 25-page research paper that
includes original research.
Grading scale: A: 90-100; B: 80-89; C: 70-79; D: 60-69; F: < 60
VIII. Academic Integrity
Every KSU student is responsible for upholding the provisions of the Student Code of Conduct, as published in the
Undergraduate and Graduate Catalogs. Section II of the Student Code of Conduct addresses the University's policy
on academic honesty, including provisions regarding plagiarism and cheating, unauthorized access to University
materials, misrepresentation/falsification of University records or academic work, malicious removal, retention, or
destruction of library materials, malicious/intentional misuse of computer facilities and/or services, and misuse of
student identification cards. Incidents of alleged academic misconduct will be handled through the established
procedures of the University Judiciary Program, which includes either an "informal" resolution by a faculty member,
resulting in a grade adjustment, or a formal hearing procedure, which may subject a student to the Code of Conduct's
minimum one semester suspension requirement.
IX. ADA Statement
Any student who, because of a disabling condition, may require some special arrangements in order to meet the
course requirements should contact the instructor as soon as possible to arrange the necessary accommodations.
Students should present appropriate verification from KSU disAbled Student Support Services. No requirement
exists that accommodations be made prior to completion of this approved University process. Accommodations are
arranged on an individualized, as-needed basis after the needs and circumstances have been evaluated. The
following individuals have been designated by the President of the University to provide assistance and ensure
compliance with the ADA. Should you require assistance or have further questions about the ADA, please contact:
Carol Pope, Asst. Dir. for disAbled Student Support Services
770-423-6443, 770-423-6667F, 770-423-6480TTY
cpope@kennesaw.edu
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