Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies

Module code: 7AAJM210
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 40
Semester:  Full-year 
Teaching pattern: 


Assessment:  coursework;  presentation/s; 
Assessed by 3 x 3,000-word essays

By way of an interdisciplinary approach, and in support of more detailed case study analysis on optional courses available on this MA, this core module introduces the history and theory of ethnic-conflict regulation. It engages with different scholarly debates and methodological approaches, applying them to contemporary practice. It examines how national, religious and ethnic conflicts are viewed and addressed in the contemporary world.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mems/modules/7aajm210.aspx

Module code: 7AAJCR01
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 60
Semester:  summer session 1;  summer session 2; 
Teaching pattern: Teaching is by supervision with an appropriate member of the faculty.
Assessment:  coursework 
Dissertation of up to 15,000-words

For a full module description and further information, please see the module page on the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies website.
 

Module code: 7AAJM204
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 20
Semester:  Semester 1 (autumn) 
Teaching pattern: 
one two-hour class weekly over ten weeks
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 1 x 5,000-word essay

The aim of this module is to provide an in-depth historical analysis of the origin and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its onset in the early 20th century to the present day. More specifically, it provides an introduction to the primary literature and the historiographical debate surrounding the creation of the State of Israel, the collapse and dispersal of Palestinian Arab society, and the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Jews over the Holy Land.


http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mems/modules/7aajm204.aspx

Module code: 7AAJM208
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 20
Semester:  Semester 1 (autumn) 
Teaching pattern: one one-hour weekly lecture over 10 weeks and one one-hour weekly seminar over 10 weeks.
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 1 x 5,000-word essay

This module examines divided societies in mainland and maritime Southeast Asia, introducing students to the political and religious history off the region, with special attention to Islamisation and subsequent colonial interventions.

It surveys ethnically and religiously divided societies in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Southern Thailand and Philippines, Singapore, Burma, Cambodia) and provides an analyses of experimentation with 'contextualized' Islam, 'civil' Islam, and 'cosmopolitan' Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia, and 'social engineering' in Singapore

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mems/modules/7aajm208.aspx

Teaching staff: Professor Michael Kerr
Module code: 7AAJM205
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 20
Semester:  Semester 1 (autumn) 
Teaching pattern: 
one two-hour class weekly over ten weeks
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 1 x 5,000-word essay

This course examines how national, religious and ethnic conflicts have been viewed and addressed in the contemporary world. A special emphasis will be placed on the historical nation state building failures that are at the heart of many of today’s contested pluri-national disputes, with particular focus on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, Iraq and Northern Ireland.

Using comparative analysis, this course enables you to evaluate the impact third party intervention has on civil war and peace processes in these case studies. It will familiarise you with the scholarly theoretical debate over the use of the power-sharing model as a means of ending civil war and regulating political violence in deeply divided societies.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mems/modules/7aajm205.aspx

Module code: 7AAJM206
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 20
Semester:  Semester 1 (autumn) 
Teaching pattern: one two-hour class weekly over ten weeks
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 1 x 5,000-word essay

This module analyses contemporary Islamist revolutionary movements in the Middle East, charting the rise of leading figures in the Egyptian, Saudi and Iraqi Islamist movements. Examining the influence their ideas had on Islamist groups in Algeria, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories, this course evaluates the challenge militant Islam poses to the Middle East state system and how this challenge has been met.

Using comparative analysis, this course enables you to evaluate the origins of political Islam and its impact on the contemporary Middle East. It will familiarise you with the scholarly theoretical debates over the rise of militant Islam and Western responses to the phenomena of international jihadism.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mems/modules/7aajm206.aspx

Teaching staff: Professor Clemens Sedmak
Module code: 7AAJM209
Credit level: 7
Credit value: 20
Semester:  Semester 2 (spring) 
Teaching pattern: 
ten two-hour classes
Assessment:  coursework 
Assessed by 1 x 5,000-word essay

This module examines the concept of reconciliation, the connection between truth and reconciliation and concrete examples and good practices of "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions". By way of case studies in reconciliation processes in South Africa and Germany, it examines the theories of conflict regulation in their relevance to reconciliation issues and familiarises students with the scholarly debates over the use of truth and reconciliation commissions.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mems/modules/7aajm209.aspx