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The Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Swarthmore College provides students
with the opportunity to examine conflict in various forms and at levels
stretching from the interpersonal to the global. The multidisciplinary
curriculum explores the causes, practice and consequences of collective
violence, as well as peaceful or nonviolent methods of conducting or dealing
with conflict. Students who minor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore will: 1. understand factors shaping human conflict, including psychological, social, cultural, political, economic, biological, religious, and historical ones. 2. analyze specific cases of conflict, including interpersonal, intergroup, international, and inter-state disputes. 3. examine theories and models of peacebuilding and reconciliation and evaluate attempts to manage, resolve, or transform conflict nonviolently. 4. investigate forms of oppression and injustice, and their relationship to conflict, locally and globally. 5. explore opportunities to study topics relevant to peace and conflict through fieldwork, internships, or other experiences outside the classroom. Students with any major, whether in course or in the Honors Program, may add a course minor in peace and conflict studies. Alternatively, students in the Honors Program may choose an honors minor in peace and conflict studies. Students who intend to minor in peace and conflict studies should submit a copy of their sophomore paper to the chair of the program during the spring of the sophomore year, after consultation with program faculty members. The paper should present a plan of study that satisfies the requirements stated later, specifying the courses to count towards the minor. All applications must be approved by the Peace and Conflict Studies Committee. |