Unit 1: What is Conflict Resolution?

1. Defining Conflict
2. Conflict structure
3. Objective and subjective views of conflict
4. Positions, interests and needs
5. Win-win outcomes
6. Power: Symmetric and asymmetric conflicts
7. Conflict management, settlement and resolution
8. Techniques for resolution
9. Bibliography

Unit 2: History of Conflict Resolution

1. Origins
2. Johan Galtung
3. Kenneth Boulding
4. John Burton
5. Problem solving and principled negotiation at Harvard
6. Adam Curle and Quaker mediation
7. Elise Boulding

Unit 3: New Developments in Conflict Resolution

1. Contingency and complementarity
2. Multi-track diplomacy
3. Conflict transformation v. resolution
4. Peacebuilding from below
5. Case Study: Complementarity and peacebuilding from below in Croatia
6. Culture and conflict resolution
7. Gender and conflict resolution

Unit 4: Analysing Contemporary Conflict

• Defining 'major deadly conflicts'
• Trends and distribution in contemporary conflict
• Conflict types and phases
• Sources of conflict
• Conflict mapping

Unit 5: Conflict Resolution in War Zones

• War zones as cultures and economies of violence
• Humanitarianism and the Humanitarian Community
• UN responses to conflict
• Case study: Civil-military co-ordination in PSO's

Unit 6: Post-settlement Peacebuilding and Reconciliation

• The UN's post-settlement peacebuilding 'standard operating procedure'
• Roles of humanitarian, developmental, military intervention programmes
• Building a culture of peace
• Case study: Reconciliation at work in Sierra Leone

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