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Academic Year 2001/2002
Culture of Peace: A Focus of Peace Psychology
PSYC 265 SP
In the framework of the United Nations Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace (adopted 1999), students will study the relationship between activity at a local and individual level and the UN program
for a culture of peace at the
international level. In addition to the UN resolutions and related documents and the study of community actions in Connecticut, topics will include war and human nature, peacebuilding and reconciliation in Third World
Countries, including El Salvador and
South Africa, the cultural origins of war and the history of non-violence in the US.
MAJOR READINGS
CULTURES OF PEACE: THE HIDDEN SIDE OF HISTORY, by Elise Boulding (2000)
NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS, by Desmond Tutu (1999)
TO CONSTRUCT PEACE: 30 MORE JUSTICE SEEKERS, PEACE MAKERS, by Michael True
(1992)
ARTICLES FROM PEACE AND CONFLICT: THE
JOURNAL OF PEACE PSYCHOLOGY
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Students will be expected to write one term paper based on a negotiated topic and bibliography, an essay on an imagined possible future, and take part in the study and description of local activity promoting one or more
components of a culture of peace
(peace education, sustainable development, democratic participation, human rights, equality of women, free flow of information, tolerance and cultural diversity and disarmament).
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This is an elective course in psychology.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS PSYC
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Adams,David B.
- Times: .....F. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: JUDD113
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 32)
- SR. major: 8 Jr. major: 8
- SR. non-major: X Jr. non-major: X SO: X FR: X
Special Attributes:
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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