College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Graduate Catalog

169 sponsored terrorism, and suicide terrorism. We will examine and evaluate how terrorists raise, store, spend, and transfer their financial resources. Offered occasionally. CARM 6644-Consulting with Leaders in Organizational Conflict: A Four Frame Approach Studies clearly show that successful leaders of twenty-first century organizations need to make sense of complex conflict situations before taking action. This course will combine theory and practice to equip students to assist organizational leaders in developing both diagnostic and behavioral sophistication by using multiple frames before taking action. Participants will engage in both classroom learning, on-line assistance, and leadership coaching with a client and organization of their own choosing. Offered yearly. CARM 6645 – Indigenous Systems of Conflict Resolution This course is designed to make contributions to the field by exploring the processes of conflict resolution and peacemaking as practiced by the indigenous communities around the world. Class members will engage in an in- depth exploration of techniques of peacemaking, as practiced in various parts of the world. Offered yearly. CARM 6646 – The Anthropology of Peace and Conflict This course will explore the social dynamics of disputing and undertaking detailed examinations of specific cases. By examining diverse expressions of conflict and different means of controlling it, students will deepen their understanding of conflict analysis and broaden their perspectives on how disputes can be managed. Course topics will include the cooperative and aggressive components of human nature, the social construction of violence, genocide, and war, and the relationship between conflict resolution, social control, inequality, and justice. Offered occasionally. CARM 6648 – Researching Conflict In this course, students and instructors will together conceptualize, design and carry out a mixed methods research study on a topic connected to violence. The students and instructors will decide on a research problem to be studied. The goal of the elective is to help students deepen their understanding of quantitative and qualitative research and hone their research skills. The course will be a collaborative effort, building on the experience, knowledge, expertise, and interests of all of the participants. Prerequisite: CARM 5200. Offered Yearly. CARM 6649 Federalism & Intergovernment Conflict This course describes and analyzes the guiding principles and the operational processes of "American Federalism", as well as its intended and unintended consequences. It seeks to provide students with a working understanding of the complex set of interactions occurring between all government units and levels (national/federal, States, Counties, municipalities, school districts and special districts, townships, etc.) in the USA; the various types of conflicts which necessarily result from these interactions; and the solutions that have been implemented in the past, or are currently suggested, in order to address and resolve these conflicts. CARM 6650 – International Negotiation: Principles, Processes, and Issues This course describes and analyzes the major principles, processes and issues of international negotiation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It seeks to provide students with the analytical tools and skills required to explain and predict the outcome of specific (bilateral or multilateral) negotiations through the study of various explanatory factors, including: stability and change in the structure of the existing “international system”; the individual characteristics of the nations-states parties (power/capabilities, interests, culture/values, negotiating styles, etc.); the strategic and tactical moves of those considered as “key player”; as well as the role of smaller states and non-state actors. Offered yearly. CARM 6651- Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism This course is foundational for theoretical understandings of ethnicity and nationalism. Students will analyze general theories from key debates and critically examine various points of view in relation to defining boundaries, conflict, context, difference, identity, migration, minority/majority, race, and tribalism in regard to ethnicity, as well as community, fantasy, ideology, neo-Marxism, modernism, perennialism, political, primordialism, semiotic, sociocultural, socioeconomic, imagination, invention, and tradition in association with nationalism and nationalists, and the entwinement and interrelation between all of these prevalent notions and themes. Upon completion of the course students will better grasp ethnic belonging, ethno- nationalist conflict, and intra/inter-group disputes from the standpoint of applied theory, cultural relativity, and humanism. Offered Yearly. CARM 6652 - History, Memory & Conflict By exploring the significance of history, memory, and cognition, this course provides the most recent theoretical debates on these issues and their significance for understanding why populations persist in a state of violence. Students will be introduced to the basic and major theoretical interpretations and the chronology of history of ideas. Questions to be considered include: how does the past become the present and remain in it, and, how do we as researchers interpret the relevance of history and memory? Others are: how is the past invented, mythologized about, and re-invented? Why does memory have such an important role in the persistence of intractable hostilities and how does the learning of violence become transmitted from one generation to the next? Offered occasionally.