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Introduction to Peace Studies - Schedule and Readings

Lesson	Topic	Reading Assignment
1	Course Introduction	Read WAR Read MK Read HSR, Part I
2	Origins of Peace Studies
3	The Causal Model of Political Violence Getting out of the war trap, if we can	Read JPL
4	Finishing Off Our Model	Read ER
5	The Study of War What do we know about war and its causes? How does Iraq or the "global war on terror" fit into these explanations?	Read ER material
6	Reflections on Terrorism	Read ER
7	Dealing with Terror after 9/11	Read all of HSR
	Take-home midterm due
8	What is Peace in a World of Terror? How does what we know about violence help us arrive at a beginning definition of peace?	Read ER
9	What is Peace and How Do We Get there? Peace as personal non-violence	Read all of JWT
10	Non-Violence Peace as non-violent movement for change Assessing King's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"	Read ER
11	Peace as the Product of Peace Movements Important opportunity: In a telephone (or in-person) conversation , interview your parents or grandparents about their experience during the years of protest we have studied: How were they affected by the large scale social movements in civil rights and anti-war activities (ca. 1960-1974)? What were their thoughts and feelings "back then" about these movements and happenings? Did they participate in any such movements or actions? Why or why not? Did they participate in any political or social movements in other era? What were the primary motivations for their participation or lack thereof?	Read ER
12	Bringing it all together: establishing new peace possibilities at varying levels and searching for our place in those arenas	Read ER Read all of PJ
	Final exam due

Readings Key

MK	Kaldor, Mary. New Wars, Old Wars. Stanford University Press, 1999.
WAR	Hedges, Chris. War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. Anchor Books, 2002.
HSR	Human Security Centre. Human Security Report. OUP, 2005.
JWT	Kleiderer, John et al. Just War, Lasting Peace. Orbis, 2006
JPL	Lederach, John Paul. The Little Book of Conflict Transformation. Good Books, 2005.
PJ	Joseph, Paul. Are Americans Becoming More Peaceful? Paradigm, 2007.
ER	Reading packet on e-reserve.

University of Notre Dame, 2008 , by the Contributing Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License

Cite/attribute Resource. Lopez, G. (2007, April 12). Readings. Retrieved February 16, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/peace-studies/introduction-to-peace-studies/readings.

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