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Spring 2012
May 01,2024 |
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| LIBS 617 - iNTERNAT'L CONFLICT:SCOPE & LIMITS OF HUMAN RIGHTS TALK |
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In this course, participants will examine contemporary concepts of explaining international conflict and the range of responses implicated by approaches to conflict. Students will compare definitions of war: Is it a manifestation of an economic war economy? or as military response to threat? or ethnic conflict? or civil war? These definitions include corresponding political rhetoric such as democracy, freedom, empire and terrorism. Students will examine the public popular conversation articulating the sources of conflict, as well as closely examine the issues underlying conflict in selected case studies. Finally, students explore terms of a dialogue necessary to resolve conflict, including the use of human rights language, with particular attention on how the international use of rights-talk challenges the traditional concept of rights as understood in domestic USA discourse.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
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