As the capstone for the Peace and Conflict Studies minor, this course discusses various conflict resolution strategies and provides students with opportunities to develop skills in peace building and distributive, integrative, and principled negotiation as well as a variety of mediation strategies ranging from traditional to transformative. Students gain hands-on experiences through role-playing and have opportunities to synthesize the content from their elective courses.

This course provides an interdisciplinary examination of peace and war. It discusses theories of peace studies and gives students the opportunity to better understand contemporary conflicts. Students will both develop analytical strategies for understanding conflicts as well as productive strategies for resolving them. Through in-depth analysis of international organizations, students will gain hands-on understandings of global citizenship.