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tactical operations, which comprises the negotiations team, the tactical team, and the
on-scene commander, as well as coordination of efforts with government, organizations,
and the community. Topics include: inter-group and intra-group conflict intervention and
communication strategies, negotiation, tactical, and command protocols,
hostage/barricade resolution continuum options, and case studies.
NSAM 6641 – Conflict and Crisis Negotiation
This course will provide an overview of law enforcement crisis negotiation and its
application to crisis situations, such as domestic violence encounters on an individual
level and hostage/barricade encounters on an organizational level. Lecture, expert
demonstration, and interactive negotiation with role play will provide an experiential
learning environment for understanding and applying active listening skills, empathy,
rapport, influence, and behavioral change concepts to conflict and crisis situations.
NSAM 6643 – Social Aspects of Terrorism
This course will examine a wide range of different cultures and societies with a special
emphasis placed upon political violence. Regions explored are: Basque country,
Chechnya, Colombia, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe. Of particular
importance are the dimensions of terrorism, trauma, and violence through an
understanding of colonialism, discourse, history, material culture, media, rebellion,
revolution, and separatism. Additionally, the course will focus upon the causes of 9/11
and the recent fomentation of international terrorism. By exploring the subject of
terrorism form an anthropological perspective will demonstrate the complexities and
various interpretations concerning the political uses through the appreciation of
interdisciplinary analysis.
NSAM 6650 – International negotiation: Principles, Process 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 skills required to explain and predict the outcome of
specific (bilateral or multilateral) negotiations through the study of various explanation
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 players"; as well as the role of smaller states and non-state
actors
NSAM 6651 – Theories of Ethnicity & Nationalism
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.
NSAM 6654 – Islam, Conflict and Peacemaking
This course will provide an historical overview of Islam, including an introduction to belief
systems, the different branches of the faith and schools of Islamic law with a special
