Theories of individual-level aggression include: Instinct Theories (of Ethologists, who study animals, and Psychoanalysts), Social-Learning Theories, and the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis. Also the Seville Statement on Nonviolence by experts for UNESCO (which argues against an Instinct Theory of Aggression).
NOTE: These theories on individual-level aggression are often incorporated into theories on collective-level social and political violence, including Urban Riots, Assassinations, Revolutions, Terrorism, as well as Family Violence (Child Abuse, Wife Beating, etc.), Violence in Sports, etc.
PART II: Theories on and Approaches to Conflict & Its Resolution or Management --including Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Includes: Alternative Dispute Resolution or ADR (as an alternative to litigation as well as violence); and different theories and approaches to conflict resolution and negotiation, including: Psychological Conflict Theory; Social-Psychological or Intergroup Conflict Theory; Getting To Yes on principled (win-win) negotiation from the Harvard Negotiation Project; and Search for Common Ground.
Includes: peace as absense of war (main concern at the end of WWII, and concern of many theorists); peace as balance of forces--political, economic, social, technological,military, etc.--by different groups within the international system (Quincy Wright); peace as negative peace (absense of war) and positive peace (absense of structural violence) on the macro level (Johan Galtung); feminist peace as peace on both macro and also micro (community and family) levels; holistic-Gaia peace with the environment; and holistic inner-outer peace.
Both functional theories (Gene Sharp), as well as spiritually-based non-violence (Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, and others.)
PART I: In-class Exam on Aggression (approx. 6th week or later)
PART I: In-class Exam on Conflict Resolution (CR) and Alternative Dispute
Resolution (ADR)
PART III: In-Class Exam on Different Types of Peace
PART III: In-Class Exam on Nonviolence
* NOTE: Possibly Exams III & IV, or I & II, will be combined.
PARTS III &
IV: Also Group Research Papers & Oral Class Reports on topics related
to one of the six areas of Peace in Part III or one of the different cases
of Nonviolence in Part IV of the course. Format for organizing papers will
be given to each group. Field work to groups in the community related to
one's area of peace(orNonviolence) also necessary as part of the research
for this paper.
PART I: Megargee & Hokanson, The Dynamics or Aggression (pb),
Part I (mimeo; book out-of-print)--on three theories (Instinct, Social-Learning,
& Frustration-Aggression). Also "Seville Statement on Nonviolence"
from UNESCO.Also Films illustrating different theories of aggression.
PART II: Fisher
& Ury, Getting To Yes: Negotiating Without Giving In (pb), Second
Edition (1991). Also Handouts on different theories of conflict resolution.
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PART III: Smoker and Groff, "Creating Global-Local Cultures of Peace," in Studies in Peace and Conflict. UNESCO: Paris, 1996. On the evolution of six types of peace in (Western) Peace Research.
Thick Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness inEveryday Life. (pb)
PART IV: Easwaran, Gandhi the Man. (pb)
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