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Instructors: Hendrik Hegemann
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
96-1.01
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
6 | 30
Comments/contents:
The course introduces students to the conceptual and empirical foundations of peace and security studies. It enables them to understand and independently apply key approaches, concepts and findings and to critically reflect upon their potential. Following a brief overview of the integral subjects and objectives of peace and security studies, the first part of the course will be structured along central terms (security, risk, violence, peace, conflict, war, gender, (post-)coloniality). The second part of the semester will deal with more specific topics of the field (armed conflict, terrorism and radicalization, peacebuilding, climate change and planetary (in)security). The weekly sessions will cover specific conceptual understandings and theoretical traditions as well as empirical findings, political problems and specific examples. The course will include classic and seminal texts as well as more recent debates and cases. A special emphasis will be given to different social science perspectives, but different disciplines will be included. The lecture combines introductory presentations by the lecturer with class discussion and group work.
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