With increasing riots around the world, lean education to deal with conflict is important.
Students need to take courses in conflict management, offered by several institutes.
Interdisciplinary courses offer knowledge about reasons that lead to conflict and find solutions to handle them.
During the duration of the course, students will be asked to understand the reason for conflict and evolve the mechanism and solution to overcome the same thing.
Speaking to education time, Shweta Sinha Deshpande, Deputy Director, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (SSLA), Pune, said, “Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) in SSLA is an interdisciplinary program that is very similar in approaches and content to programs in conflict management Of course.
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This course combines scientific discipline such as international relations, courses on international organizations and humanity, political science, sociology, anthropology, women and gender studies, migration, psychology, legal studies such as global justice, gender, etc.
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Theory, research and field experiences are part of the course to help students develop the theoretical basis, build analytical skills and work with practical reality of conflict management, adding Deshpande.
This course focuses on relevant and cultural peace principles that are relevant and acceptable, which encourages students to understand and build relevant solutions locally.
Focus on topics such as switching homeland, ideology, migration and conflict, global justice and sociology inequality, which gets global relevance, “he added.
To be involved with conflict management, one first need to understand that conflict and peace are part of the same spectrum and hence it is important to explore the background and causes of conflict.
Understand the reason
Courses introduce students on violence reasons and find solutions for peace development.
“This helps students understand the feel of conflict that reaches inter-personal, family, organization and global space.
This is a leadership and skills development program as well.
Graduates with this specialization can be used in corporate humanitarian organizations, the Government, United Nations, World Bank, Red Cross.
They can also work as opposed to politics in building peace in various parts of the world and involved with civil society organizations.
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Kaushike, honorary director, the center of peace and conflict Nelson Mandela, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, said, “Conflict management is only one approach in the discipline of peace studies and greater conflict.
We serve a variety of different approaches such as conflict prevention, conflict resolution, transformation Conflict, Peace, Peacekeeping and Peace Development.
There are theory-based courses such as courses about ‘state citizenship and government’ borrowed from political science, and skills-based courses such as skills for conflict transformation.
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Conflict resolution
Every student who tries to understand peace and conflict studies from a state perspective must understand how the situation and the government views and views various categories of citizens, what are the ideas and understanding of their citizenship.
“It provides an overview of how governance can be a factor that leads to conflict or become a catalyst in conflict resolution,” Kaushikee said.
“There are also conflict analysis courses borrowed from international relations discipline.
There are study-based courses in South Asia and West Asia.
International humanitarian law, weapons control and disarmament, research methodology are several other courses where students understand how this diverse field Related to the problem of conflict and peace building.
We try to understand and check conflicts at various levels and how to overcome them.
Most of our students have jobs in the development sector, the education sector and NGO.
Students work on several case studies while pursuing courses.
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Sanjeev Rai, Education and Author Books, Conflict, Education and People’s War in Nepal, said, “Conflict management consists of various elements of various disciplines that depend on the severity of personal, social or cross-border conflict.
Especially disciplines such as psychology , philosophy, political science, humanitarian law contributes to the flow of conflict management.
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