Course Objectives

• To know the features and dynamics of contemporary armed conflict and the primary causes of war and violence.
• To understand the conflict analysis concepts and review methodologies and tools for conflict assessment, their implementation and challenges.
• To know the politics, practice, and challenges of conflict resolution.
• To get familiarised with Conflict prevention and the role of preventive diplomacy, coercive diplomacy and the use of force, peacekeeping, peace-making and mediation, and peacebuilding.