![]() ![]() To understand it, we must therefore explore in-depth how it is experienced, interpreted, remembered, and reproduced by everyday people, as well as how it becomes institutionalized. ![]() Medical and sociological research strongly suggests that its impacts are long-lasting and intergenerational. ![]() In history books and the news, violence and war seem to be pervasive aspects of the human experience. Ask yourself: What is violence, and how do we learn to think of it? What is war and why is it started? How can it be avoided? Is violence ever justified? How do we know when we are safe, or what insecurity is? What is conflict? Is it “natural” or “biological”? How can conflicts be transformed or resolved, and for whom? How do different actors-local to international-define and “make” peace? Is peace the absence of war, or is it the presence of justice and sustainability? How do we build and preserve it? What are the roots of terrorism and political violence, and what are the effective ways of countering them? What is the “war on terror,” and does it conform to traditional views of war? How does media treat war and different forms of violence? How does war end? What are the links between war and everyday practices? How do violence, war, and insecurity variously shape our collective and individual subjectivities, even in so-called “times of peace”? This course centers on these open questions to develop a framework that will help us make sense of, and critically engage with, issues of conflict, violence, war, and peace. ![]()
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