HIS (0136) 273 - Peacemaking in World History

Credits: 3.00

Students will analyze a select history of the world through the lens of peacemaking. They will examine case studies across time and space to reveal how humans in societies at different levels of socio-economic and political complexity have dealt with issues of peacemaking. Students examine cases of conflict resolution.

Course Learning Goals: Peacemaking is a structured process used to bring people together so that they can deal with their issues and find solutions for them. With this in mind, this course seeks to enhance student knowledge of peacemaking in world history. It also aims to improve student skills in reading, interpreting, and writing about history. More specifically, in this course students will demonstrate in discussion and written assignments:

1.Knowledge of peacemaking and conflict resolution as it appears in the many different places and institutions with a view to

understanding factors shaping human conflict, including social, cultural, political, economic, biological, religious, and historical ones.

analyzing comparatively specific cases of conflict, including inter-group, inter-state, and global disputes

examining models of peace-making/building and reconciliation and evaluating attempts to manage, resolve, or change conflict peacefully/nonviolently

exploring forms of oppression/repression and injustice, and their association with conflict, locally and beyond (and in so doing developing a sympathetic understanding of various perspectives within any conflict) and

discovering the relevance of historical study and the historical mode of inquiry to peacemaking and critical issues that affect our lives and the world today.

2.Improvement in their ability to interpret historical evidence. This means that at the conclusion of this course students will be able to:

a.Write papers with clear arguments that are supported by evidence and good analysis

b.Identify writer’s perspective in presentation of information and who, for whom, where, and when this writing was done

c.Build a central argument that indicates why the topic they have selected is important and what its constituent parts will be

d.Craft their paper in a way that shows flow of argument, including paying attention to topic sentences, transitions in between paragraphs, and constructing good introductions and conclusions

e.Properly cite and footnote references in their paper following the guidelines provided in the Chicago Manual of Style.