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Masters Professional Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan
Nigeria

Available Courses

Course No: PCS 701

Course Title: Concepts and Methods in Peace & Conflict Studies

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Compulsory for all students

Description: This course will introduce students to the key concepts and debates in the study of peace and conflict. It will also examine key peace traditions.

 


Course No: PCS 702

Course Title: Principles of Conflict Management

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Compulsory for all students

Description: Overview of the major techniques of conflict management and resolution relevant to ethnic, religious and political conflicts; the effectiveness of these techniques. Particular attention is devoted to the role of third parties in conflict resolution. Consideration is also given to the concept of peace-building and the practical work of local mediation and facilitating political discussion.

 


Course No: PCS 703

Course Title: African Approaches to Conflict Management

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Compulsory for all students

Description: The course will examine different traditional methods of handling conflicts in Africa with a view to identifying how they are different to or similar to western approaches.

 


Course No: PCS 704

Course Title: Problems of Peacemaking and Peacekeeping

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Compulsory for all students

Description: The course will focus on the problems militating against peacemaking and peacekeeping initiatives around the world. This is with a view to identifying better strategies for managing African conflicts. Great emphasis shall be placed on the roles of the UN, ECOWAS and NGOs.

 


Course No: PCS 705

Course Title: The Global Refugee Regime

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 01

Description: This course seeks to undertake a detailed analysis of the causes, patterns, nature, texture and consequences of the Refugees regime in our global village. Focus will be on the end of the cold war and the negative consequences of the re-drawing of national, ethnic and cultural boundaries, political, social, cultural and international factors that encourage the growing phenomenon of the refugee regime in contemporary times, the status of women and children (as the most vulnerable groups within this context); response of the international community, in particular western powers, to refuge situations. Case studies.

 


Course No: PCS 706

Course Title: War Crimes and War Guilt

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 01 and 02

Description: This course is intended to expose students to the various international modalities for the detection of war crimes and war guilt. The overall aim is to examine the state of the art, in terms of mechanisms and strategies being developed by UN et. al. to unmask war crimes and apportion guilt; the phenomenon of child (including female) soldiering and its use as a defensive shield, patterns and trends and consequences for future war fares and warring factions and/or groups. Case studies.

 


Course No: PCS 707

Course Title: Disarming Ethnic Guerillas in Post Conflict States

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 01 and 02

Description: This course is intended to introduce students to modalities for disarming ethnic guerillas and warring militias as well as mechanism for peacekeeping and peace-enforcement; origins, funding, patterns of support etc. of ethnic guerillas and implications for the process of disarming in terms of the nature, character, status of the bodies empowered to disarm and/or supervise the process of disarming; Confidence legitimacy and coalition-building and the nature of post-conflicts politics.

 


Course No: PCS 708

Course Title: Ethnic Violence and Conflict Resolution

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 02

Description: Ethical and Philosophical issues in obedience, peaceful coexistence, rebellion and ethnic- driven violence; pattern of resource allocation/distribution; character of power-sharing; theories of political violence; behavioural approaches, the contributions of Marxism and imperialism; the organisation, objectives, motivations and actions of ethnic and other groups involved in low-intensity operations; modalities, patterns and processes of conflict resolution; the varying contents of conflict, bargaining, negotiations and resolution; conditions for minimising insurgency and counter-insurgency. Case studies.

 


Course No: PCS 709

Course Title: Inter-Religious Conflicts in Nigeria

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 02

Description: This course will critically examine a number of issues in Christian-Muslim relations: the Shariah controversy in Nigeria. Nigeria's membership of the O.I.C. and similar organisations. It will also study the religious and political undertones of the riots in Kano, Kafanchan, Bauchi, Zango Kataf; the reaction of Muslims and Christians to some government policies, the Biblical and Qur'anic principles guiding relations with people from other faiths.

 


Course No: PCS 710

Course Title: Case Studies in Environmental Conflicts

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 04

Description: The problems relating to the use of space within the urban and rural settings. Environmental Sanitation, noise pollution, nomadic Fulani vs. Farmers' conflicts, oil spillage, dumping of industrial waste etc.

 


Course No: PCS 711

Course Title: Advanced Seminars in Conflict Bargaining in International Relations

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 01

Description: Theories of conflicts, including Marxist, psycho-analytic and functionalist theories; games theory and bargaining; nuclear strategy and the balance of power and terror in international relations, conflict resolution among African, European and American states. Case Studies.

 


Course No: PCS 712

Course Title: Conflict of Laws

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 02

Description: Nature and scope of conflict of laws, internal and international conflicts, application of customary law rules in Nigeria; general principles of conflict of laws ( I ) Jurisdiction and exemption from jurisdiction from the courts, (ii) exclusion of foreign law/State laws; (iii) domicile and nationality. Choice of law problems in marriage and matrimonial causes, Succession, contracts, torts; recognition and enforcement of foreign/State jurisdictions. The need for a uniform legal system. Law of war.

 


Course No: PCS 713

Course Title: Introduction to the French Language - Speech and Conversation

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Compulsory for all students

Description: To initiate students of Peace and Conflict Studies in French Language and Structure with a view to undueing the students' vocabulary in politics, culture, religion, the occupations etc in a wide and global sense.

 


Course No: PCS 714

CourseTitle: Language and Communication in Peace and Conflict Resolution

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for all students

Description: Language in the thinking processes and thought expression; uses and abuses of language as a means of communication in different socio-linguistic contexts; the Sapir-Whorfian hypothesis of the influence of language on the perception of reality; linguistic dimensions of ethnicity and feature of powerplay between majority and minority language speakers; issues in identity, security and insecurity; language in legal arbitration and the administration of justice of conflicts within case studies of ethnolinguistic conflicts and resolutions of language planning frameworks as in the former Soviet Union, India, South Africa, Switzerland etc.

 


Course No: PCS 715

Course Title: Independent Research Project

Unit No: 6 Units

Status: Compulsory for all students

Description: This is a programme of individual research bearing in the student's field of specialism. The focus of the work must be on generating new ideas on the resolution of African Conflicts.

 


Course No: MSS 701

Course Title: Theories of War and Peace

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 01 an 02

Description: Contending theories of war and peace focussing on the psychological cum anthropological nature and behaviour of man, internal organisation of State qua State, and the anarchy of interstate relations.

 


Course No: MSS 713

Course Title: Laws of Armed Conflicts

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 01 and 02

Description: Principles and problems of the laws of armed conflicts and of the humanitarian of war: relevant international instruments e.g. Hague relations, Geneva Conventions and the Protocols. Additional to them, the UN Charter etc, Status of Civilians, POW, journalists, spies, combatants before, during and after the conflict or hostility; role of international organisations, treaties and the ending of war.

 


Course No: SOC 703

Course Title: Law and Social Change

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Elective

Description: An intensive examination of the relationship between the legal system and other institutions in the society with particular attention to the Socio-historical development of various societies. Factors accounting for the breakdown of the traditional legal system.

 


Course No: SOC 724

Course Title: Sociology of Deviant Behaviour

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Elective

Description: Survey of theories of deviant behaviour with special emphasis on cross-cultural studies. Attempt is made to evaluate extant theories of deviance in the light of empirical data on deviance from industrialised and non-industrialised or emergent societies.

 


Course No: MLR 706

Course Title: Collective Bargaining and Corporate Strategies

Unit No: 2 Units

Status: Required for FS 03

Description: Demand for Unionisation; structure of Nigerian Trade Unions; trade union wage politics; Bargaining theories ; the economics of industrial action; indigionisation and mulit-national companies; employers organisations, the state and economic planning; theories of employment; inflation and wage bargain.

 


Course No: ADE 884

Course Title: Industrial Conflict and Resolution of Conflict

Unit No: 2 Units

Status: Required for FS 03

Description: Industrial conflict, nature and patterns of conflict, conflict in industry: Causes and consequences, management of conflicts. Role of labour and management in conflict management; statutory conflict procedure; strike and public policy.

 


Course No: HIS 712

Course Title: Nigeria: Problems of Building a Nation

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 02

Description: This course is designed to examine the problems of nation building in Nigeria since 1914. These problems, which include multi-nationalities, differing languages and culture, unequal economic, social, education developments, the nature and organisation of party politics and so on are to be studies within their historical context such that while focussing on the problems students will also deepen their genuine knowledge of this period in Nigerian History.

 


Course No: MPP 703

Course Title: Psychology of Conflict Management in Industries and Organisation

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 03

Description: Organisation and its environment. Formal and informal organisation structures. Conflict and reaction to conflict in organisation. Principles of intervention in organisation. Strategies and adjustment to organisational change.

 


Course No: MPP 704

Course Title: Psychological Principles in Bargaining and Negotiation

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 03

Description: Psychological principles of bargaining. Dynamics of bargaining, union-management relationships; elements of worker participation.

 


Course No: MPP 716

Course Title: Environmental Psychology

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 04

Description: Psychological analyses of noise, heat and air pollution. Psychological effect of industrial waste on the environment. Human behaviour on the environment.

 


Course No: PSY 782

Course Title: Social Conflict and Social Change

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 02

Description: Strategies for producing, and consequences of change. Topics could include: effects of change on the individual, the collection and use of data as strategies for the production of change; socio-technical intervention strategies (e.g. Ajaokuta, etc) conflict as a change strategy.

 


Course No: GEO 715

Course Title: Land Resources Analysis

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 04

Description: Economic Analysis of existing natural resources complexes in different regions: the classification of land types and assessment of their development potentials, river basin planning, water resources development; perceptions of the natural environment

 


Course No: LAC 718

Course Title: Cross-cultural Communication

Unit No: 3 Units

Status: Required for FS 02 and 04

Description: This course is designed to provide an insight into cultural contrasts and cultural universals as manifested in communication. It utilises different models all of which project time and space as exhibitors of cultural difference and similarities. In essence, the course is concerned with observation and analysis of what happens to given cultural variables as we move from one culture to the other, and as exponents of different cultures interact.

 


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