COLLABORATIVE METH. IN CONFLICT RES. (PO5081)

This course acquaints students with theory and research on collaboration, with particular emphasis on the relationship between collaboration and communication in situations of cultural and ethnic conflict. It begins with a focus on what sorts of problems and conflicts are best suited to collaborative interventions, and then sets out the essential features of a high-quality collaborative process and the various communicative acts that are essential to creating and maintaining such a process, which students practice in a simulation of a variety of cross cultural contexts.

Code:

PO5081

Name:

COLLABORATIVE METH. IN CONFLICT RES.

Discipline:

PO (Politics)

Type:

Regular

Level:

Graduate

Credits:

Can be taken twice for credit?:

Pre-requisites:

College Level=Graduate OR College Level=Graduate - Continuing OR College Level=New Student - Grad

Co-requisites:

None

Equivalencies:

COLLABORATIVE METH. IN CONFLICT RES. (CM5081)

Learning Outcomes

Ability to use communication and cross-cultural skills necessary to be an effective practitioner
Developing one’s ability to be a reflective practitioner
Knowledge of the role of communication processes in both escalating conflict & facilitating more peaceful contexts
Practice the core conflict resolution processes of mediation, facilitation and dialogue
Strategies to pursue professional opportunities
Understanding key ethical and practical challenges in the field
Understanding of conflict resolution as a field of practice

COLLABORATIVE METH. IN CONFLICT RES. (PO5081)

Learning Outcomes

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