Oliver P Richmond
Professor Oliver Richmond is a leading scholar in the field of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies. He is founder of the MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and contributes to its core modules in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester. In 2019, he received an Eminent Scholar Award from the International Studies Association. He has worked with international actors, especially the UN, and civil society organisations in several conflict-affected areas around the world, and has also conducted fieldwork on local, state, and international problems of peacebuilding in Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Colombia.
Among his publications are his recent monographs The Grand Design: Peace in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2022), Peace in International Relations (Routledge, 2020- 2nd Ed.), Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State and the Dynamics of Peace Formation (Yale University Press, 2014). He also published a Very Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press, 2014/23), which offers an overview of the development of related concepts, theory and practices.
He is Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and also a Visiting Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ewha Womens University, Korea.
He has long been interested in critical approaches to international theory, concepts of peace and their implicit usages in IR theory, and related practices of the international system (see his earlier book which was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship), The Transformation of Peace, Palgrave, 2005/24). His primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its inter-linkages with IR theory. His recent work examines the evolution of the different strategies for maintaining international order and local peace in contemporary history and engages with new questions about peace and war raised in the multipolar and digital era. His previous work was on peace formation and its relation to state formation, statebuilding, and peacebuilding. This area of interest grew out of his work on local and everyday forms of critical agency and resistance, and their role in constructing hybrid or post-liberal forms of peace and states (see A Post-Liberal Peace, Routledge, 2011), as well as earlier conflict resolution and conflict management debates in IR, including international mediation, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding (see Maintaining Order, Making Peace, Macmillan, 2002).
He co-edits a Palgrave Book Series called Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, which seeks to provide a forum for the development of new and alternative approaches for understanding the dynamics of conflict and of the construction of peace: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14500. He is co-editor of the journal "Peacebuilding": https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpcb20/current. He is also co-editor of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several key journals, and is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
Among his publications are his recent monographs The Grand Design: Peace in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2022), Peace in International Relations (Routledge, 2020- 2nd Ed.), Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State and the Dynamics of Peace Formation (Yale University Press, 2014). He also published a Very Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press, 2014/23), which offers an overview of the development of related concepts, theory and practices.
He is Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and also a Visiting Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ewha Womens University, Korea.
He has long been interested in critical approaches to international theory, concepts of peace and their implicit usages in IR theory, and related practices of the international system (see his earlier book which was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship), The Transformation of Peace, Palgrave, 2005/24). His primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its inter-linkages with IR theory. His recent work examines the evolution of the different strategies for maintaining international order and local peace in contemporary history and engages with new questions about peace and war raised in the multipolar and digital era. His previous work was on peace formation and its relation to state formation, statebuilding, and peacebuilding. This area of interest grew out of his work on local and everyday forms of critical agency and resistance, and their role in constructing hybrid or post-liberal forms of peace and states (see A Post-Liberal Peace, Routledge, 2011), as well as earlier conflict resolution and conflict management debates in IR, including international mediation, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding (see Maintaining Order, Making Peace, Macmillan, 2002).
He co-edits a Palgrave Book Series called Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, which seeks to provide a forum for the development of new and alternative approaches for understanding the dynamics of conflict and of the construction of peace: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14500. He is co-editor of the journal "Peacebuilding": https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpcb20/current. He is also co-editor of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several key journals, and is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.
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statebuilding is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to
‘digital’ approaches in international relations. This is affecting conflict
management, intervention, peacebuilding, and the all-important role
of civil society. This Element analyses the potential that these new
digital forms of international relations offer for the reform of peace
praxis – namely, the enhancement of critical agency across networks
and scales, the expansion of claims for rights and the mitigation of
obstacles posed by sovereignty, locality, and territoriality. The Element
also addresses the parallel limitations of digital technologies in terms of
political emancipation related to subaltern claims, the risk of
co-optation by historical and analogue power structures, institutions,
and actors. The authors conclude that though aspects of emerging
digital approaches to making peace are promising, they cannot yet
bypass or resolve older, analogue conflict dynamics revolving around
power relations, territorialism, and state formation.
As Oliver P. Richmond argues in this book, the concept of peace has evolved continuously through several eras: from the imperial era, through the states-system, liberal, and current neoliberal eras of states and markets. It holds the prospect of developing further through the emerging "digital" era of transnational networks, new technologies, and heightened mobility. Yet, as recent studies have shown, only a minority of modern peace agreements survive for more than a few years and many peace agreements and peacebuilding missions have become intractable, blocked, or frozen. This casts a shadow on the legitimacy, stability, and effectiveness of the overall international peace architecture, reflecting significant problems in the evolution of an often violently contested international and domestic order.
This book examines the development of the international peace architecture, a "grand design" comprising various subsequent attempts to develop a peaceful international order. Richmond examines six main theoretical-historical stages in this process often addressed through peacekeeping and international mediation, including the balance of power mechanism of the 19th Century, liberal internationalism after World War I, and the expansion of rights and decolonization after World War II. It also includes liberal peacebuilding after the end of the Cold War, neoliberal statebuilding during the 2000s, and an as yet unresolved current "digital" stage. They have produced a substantial, though fragile, international peace architecture. However, it is always entangled with, and hindered by, blockages and a more substantial counter-peace framework. The Grand Design provides a sweeping look at the troubled history of peace processes, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding, and their effects on the evolution of international order. It also considers what the next stage may bring.
This book is available as open access (free of charge) here: https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526148346/9781526148346.xml?rskey=mEjZmj&result=2
Contents
1 Introduction: controversies over gaps within EU crisis management policy - Roger Mac Ginty, Sandra Pogodda and Oliver P. Richmond
2 Critical crisis transformation: a framework for understanding EU crisis response - Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda and Roger Mac Ginty
3 The potential and limits of EU crisis response - Pernille Rieker & Kristian L. Gjerde
4 The EU's integrated approach to crisis response: learning from the UN, NATO and OSCE - Loes Debuysere and Steven Blockmans
5 Securitisation of the EU approach to the Western Balkans: from conflict transformation to crisis management - Kari M. Osland and Mateja Peter
6 The paradoxes of EU crisis response in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali - Morten Bøås, Bård Drange, Dlawer Ala'Aldeen, Abdoul Wahab Cissé and Qayoom Suroush
7 The effectiveness of EU crisis response in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali - Ingo Peters, Enver Ferhatovic, Rabea Heinemann and Sofia Sturm
8 Dissecting the EU response to the 'migration crisis' - Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari
The book examines the concept of peace and its usage in the main theoretical debates in IR, including realism, liberalism, constructivism, critical theory, and post-structuralism, as well as in the more direct debates on peace and conflict studies. It explores themes relating to culture, development, agency, and structure, not just in terms of representations of IR, and of peace, but in terms of the discipline of IR itself. The work also specifically explores the recent mantras associated with liberal and neoliberal versions of peace, which appear to have become foundational for much of the mainstream literature and for doctrines for peace and development in the policy world. Analysing war has often led to the dominance – and mitigation – of violence as a basic assumption in, and response to, the problems of IR. This study aims to redress this negative balance by arguing that the discipline offers a rich basis for the study of peace, which has advanced significantly over the last century or so. It also proposes innovative theoretical dimensions of the study of peace, with new chapters discussing post-colonial and digital developments.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Towards and Orthodoxy of Peace- and Beyond
1. Peace and the Idealist Tradition: Towards a Liberal Peace
2. A Realist Agenda for Peace: Survival and a Victor’s Peace
3. Marxist Agendas for Peace: Towards Peace as Social Justice and Emancipation
4. Beyond a Idealist, Realist, or Marxist Version of Peace
5. The Contribution of Peace and Conflict Studies
Part II: Post-Positivism and Peace
6. Critical Contributions to Peace
7. Post-Structuralist Contributions to Peace
8. Post-Colonial Contributions to Peace
9. New theories: the environment, actors, networks, mobility, and technology
statebuilding is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to
‘digital’ approaches in international relations. This is affecting conflict
management, intervention, peacebuilding, and the all-important role
of civil society. This Element analyses the potential that these new
digital forms of international relations offer for the reform of peace
praxis – namely, the enhancement of critical agency across networks
and scales, the expansion of claims for rights and the mitigation of
obstacles posed by sovereignty, locality, and territoriality. The Element
also addresses the parallel limitations of digital technologies in terms of
political emancipation related to subaltern claims, the risk of
co-optation by historical and analogue power structures, institutions,
and actors. The authors conclude that though aspects of emerging
digital approaches to making peace are promising, they cannot yet
bypass or resolve older, analogue conflict dynamics revolving around
power relations, territorialism, and state formation.
As Oliver P. Richmond argues in this book, the concept of peace has evolved continuously through several eras: from the imperial era, through the states-system, liberal, and current neoliberal eras of states and markets. It holds the prospect of developing further through the emerging "digital" era of transnational networks, new technologies, and heightened mobility. Yet, as recent studies have shown, only a minority of modern peace agreements survive for more than a few years and many peace agreements and peacebuilding missions have become intractable, blocked, or frozen. This casts a shadow on the legitimacy, stability, and effectiveness of the overall international peace architecture, reflecting significant problems in the evolution of an often violently contested international and domestic order.
This book examines the development of the international peace architecture, a "grand design" comprising various subsequent attempts to develop a peaceful international order. Richmond examines six main theoretical-historical stages in this process often addressed through peacekeeping and international mediation, including the balance of power mechanism of the 19th Century, liberal internationalism after World War I, and the expansion of rights and decolonization after World War II. It also includes liberal peacebuilding after the end of the Cold War, neoliberal statebuilding during the 2000s, and an as yet unresolved current "digital" stage. They have produced a substantial, though fragile, international peace architecture. However, it is always entangled with, and hindered by, blockages and a more substantial counter-peace framework. The Grand Design provides a sweeping look at the troubled history of peace processes, peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding, and their effects on the evolution of international order. It also considers what the next stage may bring.
This book is available as open access (free of charge) here: https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526148346/9781526148346.xml?rskey=mEjZmj&result=2
Contents
1 Introduction: controversies over gaps within EU crisis management policy - Roger Mac Ginty, Sandra Pogodda and Oliver P. Richmond
2 Critical crisis transformation: a framework for understanding EU crisis response - Oliver P. Richmond, Sandra Pogodda and Roger Mac Ginty
3 The potential and limits of EU crisis response - Pernille Rieker & Kristian L. Gjerde
4 The EU's integrated approach to crisis response: learning from the UN, NATO and OSCE - Loes Debuysere and Steven Blockmans
5 Securitisation of the EU approach to the Western Balkans: from conflict transformation to crisis management - Kari M. Osland and Mateja Peter
6 The paradoxes of EU crisis response in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali - Morten Bøås, Bård Drange, Dlawer Ala'Aldeen, Abdoul Wahab Cissé and Qayoom Suroush
7 The effectiveness of EU crisis response in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali - Ingo Peters, Enver Ferhatovic, Rabea Heinemann and Sofia Sturm
8 Dissecting the EU response to the 'migration crisis' - Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari
The book examines the concept of peace and its usage in the main theoretical debates in IR, including realism, liberalism, constructivism, critical theory, and post-structuralism, as well as in the more direct debates on peace and conflict studies. It explores themes relating to culture, development, agency, and structure, not just in terms of representations of IR, and of peace, but in terms of the discipline of IR itself. The work also specifically explores the recent mantras associated with liberal and neoliberal versions of peace, which appear to have become foundational for much of the mainstream literature and for doctrines for peace and development in the policy world. Analysing war has often led to the dominance – and mitigation – of violence as a basic assumption in, and response to, the problems of IR. This study aims to redress this negative balance by arguing that the discipline offers a rich basis for the study of peace, which has advanced significantly over the last century or so. It also proposes innovative theoretical dimensions of the study of peace, with new chapters discussing post-colonial and digital developments.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Towards and Orthodoxy of Peace- and Beyond
1. Peace and the Idealist Tradition: Towards a Liberal Peace
2. A Realist Agenda for Peace: Survival and a Victor’s Peace
3. Marxist Agendas for Peace: Towards Peace as Social Justice and Emancipation
4. Beyond a Idealist, Realist, or Marxist Version of Peace
5. The Contribution of Peace and Conflict Studies
Part II: Post-Positivism and Peace
6. Critical Contributions to Peace
7. Post-Structuralist Contributions to Peace
8. Post-Colonial Contributions to Peace
9. New theories: the environment, actors, networks, mobility, and technology
avoiding representations of social, subaltern, and political resistance, or
experimentation with new approaches to emancipation. Less obviously,
however, this article outlines how a creative synthesis of critique, politics,
and representation has led to an evolving form of ‘artpeace’. This concept
appears to have been related to power and was thus limited and Eurocentric
in the past, but more importantly it has also provided a platform for critical
agency, resistance, and experimentation, with implications for the politics
of peacemaking. This article outlines what this means for various strands
of artpeace and their possible conceptual implications.
For peace-making, artificial-intelligence and data-driven approaches (see, for example, W. Guo et al. Nature 562, 331–333; 2018) should be viewed only as complements to the existing international architecture (see go.nature.com/3q13tpe). To predict and prevent war, political will and policy innovations are still necessary.
begun to appear in the context of peacebuilding through the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, other regional actors, the international legal system, and the International Financial Institutions. This article proposes a much broader, historical version, with six main theoretical stages, which have, from a critical perspective, produced a substantial, though fragile, international architecture.
United Nations’ efforts central among them, is currently responding to a shift
from ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’ approaches in international relations. This is
affecting intervention, peacebuilding and development. This article analyses
the potential that these new digital forms of international relations offer for
the reform of peacebuilding – namely, the enhancement of critical agency
across networks and scales, the expansion of claims for rights and the
mitigation of obstacles posed by sovereignty, locality and territoriality. The
article also addresses the parallel limitations of digital technologies, as well as
the risk of co-optation by historical and analogue power structures, existing
modi operandi and agendas of the United Nations, and other international
actors. We conclude that though aspects of emerging digital approaches to
peacebuilding are promising, they cannot yet bypass or resolve older,
analogue conflict dynamics revolving around the state, territorialism, and
state formation.
expanded rights emanating from critical agency and global subalterns. Their political
scripts have partly driven the development of the international peace architecture
(IPA), a series of layers, sediments, and theories built up through international and
local scale peace praxis. It has often required an alliance with powerful actors and
an international consensus. Its evolution challenges the Western framed approach
to peacemaking from various directions – regional, methodological, theoretical, and
ethical. The logical scientific conclusion of this process appears to equate peace with
post-colonial versions of global justice and sustainability, drawing on subaltern perspectives and epistemological advances. However, blockages, counter-peace dynamics, including spoiling and authoritarian outcomes in many peace processes across the world, tend to underline the limited pragmatic traction of the peace-justice nexus.
critical academic literature on peace and conflict studies in IR, much of it rather naive.
It has developed an ecosystem of its own within debates on peace without drawing on
wider disciplinary debates. Terms such as ‘emancipation’ and its relative, ‘social justice’
are widely used in critical theoretical literature and were common parlance in previous
ideological eras. It was clear what such terms meant in the context of feudalism,
slavery, imperialism, discrimination, a class system, nuclear weapons and racism over
the previous two centuries. Now it is less clear in the context of changing peace praxis.
(Foucault, cited in Dean & Villadsen 2016, p. 92)
Peacebuilding is open to quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and particularly welcomes submissions that are prepared to challenge orthodox views and add new empirical insights into scholarly debates. For example, we are interested in submissions from a post-colonial perspective of peace and order, or utilising ethnographic methodologies able to highlight subaltern voices, positionalities, and local claims in the context of hybridity and related power-relations. Contributions from the ‘subjects’ of peace processes, peacebuilding, etc., as well as theoretical and methodological innovations (for example creative, critical and ethnographic work, whether on or in conflict-affected societies, or on donors and international actors) are particularly welcome.
The editors are interested in how dominant ‘peace’ paradigms produce political subjectivity, and how this is responded to by their recipients. Rethinking approaches to peace is particularly crucial if this area of study is to move beyond its current liberal or neoliberal position. Peacebuilding periodically includes reports and field notes on the work of major donors and peacebuilding organisations. We publish collective discussion pieces that decentre and challenge dominant knowledge on peace and conflict studies, and promote new, critical alternatives on peacebuilding.
Pax In Nuce was established by a group of scholars in the UK, but is not aligned with any one institution or person. It is a site for debate, argument and the floating of ideas.
The site was established out of frustration at the high pay-walls erected by commercial academic publishers. These pay-walls mean that many academic articles are only available to those who are affiliated with (well-funded) academic libraries. This goes against the notion of academic freedom, and we hope that Pax In Nuce can help circumvent the privatisation of knowledge and help with the sharing of ideas and opinions. We welcome contributions from anyone – whether articles or responses to articles. Submit to [email protected]
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This interdisciplinary MA explores the processes through which actors have attempted to define and build peace in areas affected by war and violence, particularly since the end of the Cold. Drawing on expertise from the fields of history, politics, anthropology and the arts, this new course will offer students the opportunity to engage with conflict management, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, peacebuilding and statebuilding theories and practices. Moreover, the programme will critically address the conceptualization of peace and the implementation of peacebuilding projects by global, regional, national and local actors, including the UN, the International Financial Institutions, development agencies and donors, INGOs, and local organisation in conflict-affected environments. In particular, it will focus on social agency for peace, the question of the nature of the ‘peaceful state’, and the ever-fraught question of the reform of the international system. The dynamics of these various contributions to peace will be the focus of a guided engagement, via local partner organisations, with the range of peace and conflict management actors present in either Bosnia Herzegovina or Cyprus (in Semester II).
Aims
Students will be able to show a critical understanding of:
1. Key issues and debates related to the theories of peace and practices of peacebuilding, statebuilding, conflict management, resolution, and transformation. Students will show familiarity with different theoretical approaches, practical problems and an appreciation of the diversity of policies at international, regional, national and sub-national levels. They will become familiar with the range of international actors and organisations, their policies and practices, and their pros and cons.
2. The range of social science topics which influence peacebuilding, statebuilding, conflict management, etc, (including political, historical, anthropological understandings of peace and related programming strategies). Students will become familiar with the methodological and normative underpinnings of these disciplines and their concomitant effect on peacebuilding and a broad range of interventionary processes aimed at producing peace.
3. The analytical and policy literature concerning the related issues of peacebuilding, including international governance structures, the concept of statebuilding, foreign policy analysis and the role of key actors and institutions including the state, multilateral and bilateral agencies, international and domestic NGOs as well as the military and other security actors. Concurrently, students will be able to evaluate the theory and policy tools in the context of the recent history of peacebuilding and statebuilding since the end of the Cold War, in a range of examples, including across the Balkans, Cambodia, Timor Leste, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, the recent and various Arab Revolts, and others.
4. An understanding of local approaches to peacebuilding, including an awareness of the problems and critiques associated with `bottom up' approaches. Student will also engage with the current debates surround the nature of everyday peace and hybrid forms of peace, related questions about ‘local agency’ and forms of resistance, activism, and social mobilisation.
5. Students will experience the on-the-ground realities of peacebuilding and statebuilding through a guided visit to the range of actors involved in Bosnia-Herzegovina or Cyprus. This will form a key part of one of the core modules of the programme and will be run in association with local partners in either country.
6. The development of a range of academic and professional/transferable skills through both independent and group-based work. Students will attain a detailed understanding of a specific conceptual and/or policy-related area of peacebuilding along with implications and limitations of research findings on this subject, and of how to produce an original piece of academic research. This will be delivered via the dissertation module.
7. A detailed understanding of a specific conceptual and/or policy-related area of peacebuilding along with the implications and limitations of research findings on this subject, and of how to produce an original piece of academic research. This will be delivered via the dissertation module.
Special features
The Institute is developing a novel configuration for research and teaching which will uniquely associate practitioners, non-governmental organisation (NGO) partners, theoreticians, policy makers and analysts in sustained intellectual engagement. Combining a targeted programme of research with the provision of timely analysis on current emergencies and conflicts, the institute will seek to develop new methodologies in the emerging field of humanitarian and conflict response research.
Additional voluntary workshops and events throughout the year further enhance study including:
The evidence of objects, a trip to the Imperial War Museum North
Other Case Briefings (eg. Cyprus, Arab Uprisings)
Policy Sessions: UN system and INGOs (Professor Dan Smith, International Alert)
Manchester Peace Walk
Working with Governments (Professor Dan Smith, International Alert )
Regular `Leading Voices' workshops, with key thinkers in the field
Students studying this programme will also benefit from possible additional activities, such as:
Student organised trips to London ( International Alert ), New York ( UN/IPA ) and Brussels
Case Study Internships
Attendance at annual Peacebuilding conference and potential participation in student panels.
Teaching and learning
Delivery of the course will take a range of forms, including lectures, seminars, tutorials, directed reading, and independent study. Much of the delivery will be problem based/enquiry based learning.
This MA will be influenced and informed by the research of both staff and post graduate research students at the institute including research projects on:
Political space in the aid industry
Local/hybrid approaches to peacebuilding
The contribution of BRICS nations to peace and security programming
Critical peace studies
The role of the state in peace and security programming
Ethnographic approaches to understanding violence
Refugees and internally displaced persons
The political economy of conflict
Performance in conflict and disaster zones
Historical analyses of aid
Coursework and assessment
Students will assessed through several methods, with the aim of building up numerous academic and professional skills. Forms of assessment will include:
Research essays (3000 words +)
The running of group workshops
Reflective journals/learning logs
Contribution to group discussion boards (electronically)
Oral presentations
Literature reviews/research design
Course content for year 1
Core Modules (15 Credits Each) Students must take all of the following:
Peace and Social Agency, Security and Intervention: Theories and Practices
This module will introduce students to key theories and concepts related to the study of peace, security and conflict. It will expose students to key debates related to these topics (both conceptual and practical) and provide students with an appreciation of the diversity of relevant policies at the international, regional, national and sub-national levels. It will provide them with an analytical tool box which can be used to explore issues related to peacebuilding in theory and practice-tools which can be used in this module, other modules on the degree and in their professional lives.
Practical approaches to studying conflict-affected societies
This module explores issues of epistemology, positionality and research methods associated with field research in peacebuilding environments. This unit will involve a compulsory engagement with partners working in a conflict-affected society (BiH or Cyprus) that is intended to challenge the notion of a conventional fieldtrip and to expose students to the practical and ethical dilemmas of ‘field’ research.
Reconstruction & Development (IDPM)
Humanitarian Practice in Situations of Armed Conflict
Dissertation (12 000 - 15 000 words) (60 Credits)
Optional Modules: Students to choose 60 credits from the following:
Arab Revolts and Revolutionary State Formation (15 Credits)
Humanitarian and Conflict Response: Inquiries (15 Credits)
History of Humanitarian Aid (15 or 30 Credits)
Global Health (15 Credits)
Conflict Analysis (IDPM) (15 Credits)
Ethics in World Politics (Politics) (15 Credits)
Security Studies (Politics) (15 Credits)
Human Rights in World Politics (15 Credits)
Performance Theory and Practice (Drama) (30 Credits)
Please note that this is an indicative list and course modules may vary from year to year.