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Peace and Conflict Resolution
Coordinator: Dr. Rajendra Prasad Principal

'Peace and conflict resolution' is simultaneously an ancient and a new field of academic study. It is ancient insofar as human beings have always attempted to regulate and settle conflicts by recourse to a variety of strategies. These include religious and legal sanctions, political agreements, and of course brute military force. All of these strategies have, to varying degrees, emphasized the role of abstract principles of justice, legitimacy, morality, and divine guidance in ending conflict. As a new field of study, conflict resolution attempts to move beyond this time-honoured set of strategies by developing theoretical insights into the nature and sources of conflict and how conflicts can be resolved to bring about durable settlements without the use of military force. The primary focus of peace and conflict studies is the analysis and understanding of various kinds of conflicts at community, state, and international levels through the utilization of various theories and techniques which ensure just, practical, and lasting agreements. The ultimate aim of this field of study is to help people find ways of getting along better - an ancient yet thoroughly modern challenge that must be met in order that we all may live in a safe, just and caring world. 'Peace and conflict resolution' encompasses many important issues of contemporary world such as environment and natural resource management, human rights, war, terrorism, refugee problem, communalism, ethnicity, secessionism etc. This course is therefore necessarily interdisciplinary and crosses the boundaries of various disciplines. The programme focuses on training a small number of outstanding students in the theories and techniques of conflict analysis and resolution. www.ramjascollege.edu

Principle areas of concentration in this course include: important theories of conflict and peace from the history of political thought such as those of Socrates, Hobbes, Kant, Marx, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and others; analysis of policy choices in conflict situations; important modern theories of conflict resolution focusing on power, interest and strategy such as versions of Game theory, Rational Choice and Social Choice theories; modes of power behaviour; bargaining and negotiation; management of national security; strategic thought of superpowers and mini-states; foundation of integrative world orders; and socialreligious and economic developments. It will also introduce the students to the new developments in conflict resolution studies - for example the emergence of hermeneutic, ecological, and gender based approaches.

The Certificate Course consists of IV Course Units and can normally be completed in four months. And the course is so structured that even students pursuing other degrees and programmes in the university can simultaneously earn certificate in conflict analysis and peace science. Even people from government organizations, defence and diplomats also have the opportunity to pursue this course.

Admission Requirements
A formal interview is required. Admission is selective;command of the logic of research in the social sciences and familiarity with the mathematical and other formal modes of reasoning is preferred. Intellectually mature candidates who can demonstrate both motivation and the capacity to master methodological and cross-disciplinary studies will be preferred.