150016350 INTERNATIONAL ACTORS IN CONFLICT AND PEACE ( 3 Crd.Hrs )

Pre-Requisites : 150016040, 150016001, 150016020

This course provides participants with a working knowledge as well as with critical analysis on the major international actors that play a role in directing events in the theater of conflict and peace. The international community as represented today by the five permanent members in the Security Council, along with other regional powers such as Japan, Germany, India and Brazil is the focus of this course. In The Palestinian-Israeli theater, the course will examine the role of the US, the EU, Russia, the UN, funding agencies and human rights groups in stabilizing the region and its destabilization, peacemaking, peace building and how did they contribute to conflict transformation and resolution.