PCON 201   Processes of Peace & Conflict: Histories, Theories, Technologies

Emphasizes the historical entanglement of ideas about peace and conflict and their organization (social, economic, political, material, and spatial), as well as the ways in which technological evolution has mediated these relationships. Engaging with classical and contemporary scholarly texts offering a wide variety of perspectives on peace and conflict from different disciplinary perspectives, coursework also introduces and deploys a variety of methodological frameworks of interpretation applied to various kinds of primary source materials and quantitative data. Overall, coursework seeks to develop a longue durée perspective on historical and recent trends in organized violence, from the rise of modern forms of conventional and unconventional warfare to today’s most devastating armed conflicts. Alongside PCON 202, this course is part of the two-course introduction to the Peace & Conflict Studies major and minor.