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Course description

A great deal of resources and analysis are dedicated to war and violence, but comparatively little effort is directed to transforming the structural and cultural conditions that generate war or to addressing the injustices and traumas that arise from violence. The recently emerged sub-field of peacebuilding attempts to address these and related challenges by bringing together the theory and practice of conflict resolution, humanitarian assistance, and development. Among other goals, peacebuilding attempts to address the dynamics of entrenched civil conflict, structural injustice and other conflict causes to prevent the emergence of violent conflict and to address its effects. The challenges that accompany this work confront organisations from the United Nations to international non-government organisations and states from Afghanistan to Australia. In this course we develop an understanding of peacebuilding and critically engage with it at both a theoretical and practical level.

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