Conflict Resolution
Duration:
1 Teaching Period
Unit Code:
POL20011
Contact Hours:
Recommended 10 hours of study per week
About this unit
This unit provides students with an understanding of how apparent points of conflict can be associated with underlying issues. It also explores the avenues that might be available to resolve these matters either before or after they have developed into overt conflict.
Content
- The nature of conflict
- The occasions for conflict: overt e.g. religion, culture, history; and underlying e.g. land, water, strategic resources
- How conflict develops, trajectories and outcomes
- Approaches to the resolution of conflict
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