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CARM 6601 - International Conflict Resolution
This course reviews international conflict resolution in many settings and includes
informal mediation by private interveners and scholar practitioners; formal mediation by
individual, regional, transnational, and international organizations; and mediation within
small and large states. Offered occasionally.
CARM 6602 - Resolving Environmental and Public Disputes
This course focuses on the theoretical bases, practical applications, process orientations,
and actual intervention into complex multiparty, multi-issue public disputes. Focus is on
social/environmental interactions and sources of political and economic conflict over
human health environmental protection and natural resource scarcity. Offered
occasionally.
CARM 6604 - Gender and Conflict
This course examines gender roles in conflict and how conflict is experienced and
perceived by men and women. Course material includes feminist theories, men's
studies, religion, literature, history, anthropology, film, television, psychology, the justice
system, and alternative dispute resolution. Offered occasionally.
CARM 6605 - Institutional Assessment in Conflict Resolution Practice
This course will introduce students to the field of institutional assessment and planning,
emphasizing the higher education environment and its unique challenges. Students will
explore the functions of educational institutions across systems, develop an
understanding of the concepts of institutional assessment and administrative issues in
higher education, learn to use core technologies and methodologies for research
applications, and build experience navigating the political and interpersonal dynamics
that promote effective institutional assessment. Offered occasionally.
CARM 6606 – Advanced Mediation Skills
This course will oblige students to examine conventional wisdom and the students’ own
beliefs to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the potentials and limits of
mediation in a wide variety of contexts. The course will cover selected mediation issues
and skills in more depth than possible in an introductory survey of mediation. Students
will analyze issues such as convening mediations, eliciting and satisfying interests,
maintaining impartiality, dealing with power imbalances, handling apparent impasses,
identifying and handling various ethical problems, and writing agreements. Students will
also discuss practical aspects of operating a practice such as getting clients, billing,
developing good relationships with other professionals, and creating standard forms.
Prerequisites: CARM 5100. Offered occasionally.
CARM 6607 – Ethno-political and Community-Based Conflicts
This course introduces the major methods used by states, international organizations,
and conflict resolution practitioners to eliminate, manage, and resolve ethnic and
community-based conflicts. Case studies are used to explain conflict escalation and de-
escalation, and mechanisms of conflict intervention. Offered yearly.
CARM 6608 - Nonviolent Social Movements
This course focuses on 20th-century nonviolent social movements such as the women's
rights and suffragist movement; Gandhi's prolonged struggle against British colonialism;
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American Civil Rights movement; the American peace
movement against the war in Vietnam; and the nonviolent movements that resulted in
the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe. Offered occasionally.
