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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.
CARD 6647 –Risk Management for Organizations
This course examines risks across all types of organizations, including healthcare. The
course will outline various types of risk exposures including pure, operational, project,
technical, business, and political. Students will learn how to develop a systemic risk
management program for any organization through risk identification, qualitative impact
analysis, quantitative impact analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring.
Offered yearly.
CARD 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. Offered yearly.
CARD 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.
CARD 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.
CARD 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
