In the spring semester 2004, the reading list covers:
SVF-3024: Conflict Resolution and Conflict transformation.

The required readings are available in three forms:
(i) selections from course texts, available for purchase from the University bookshop (listed immediately below),
(ii) collected articles and chapters in course packages (compendium), available for purchase from the bookstore "Akademisk Kvarter" in the Main Building of the University.
(iii) web articles students may download themselves.

Furthermore, the readings are listed according to the different topics in the course SVF-3024.

Course texts

Mats Berdal and David M. Malone (eds.)	Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (Lynne Rienner: London, 2000). (129 pp.)
Michael Walzer,	Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: Basic Books, 2000)
Mark Juergenmeyer	"Gandhi's Way. A Handbook of Conflict Resolution", Oxford University Press, 2002 (174p)
EU Law	Text, Cases and Materials. Oxford University Press, 2003, 3rd edition

I. Peace Education

Bernstein, B.:	‘Pedagogizing Knowledge. A social grammar’, i Amundsen, I. (ed): Knowledge and Development, NFU Conference report, University of Tromsö 1994, page 115-139
Brock-Utne, B	‘Peace Education at the End of a Millennium’, in Löfgren H. (ed.): Peace Education and Human Development, Dept. of Educational and Psychological Research, Malmö School of Education, Lund University 1995, pp 55-75
Burns, R.J. & Aspeslagh, R:	Three decades of peace education around the world. An anthology. Garland Publishing Inc., NY & London 1996, Chapters 2, 4
Fägerlind,I. & Saha,L.	Education and National Development, Pergamon Press, ch 2
Nergård, Jens-Ivar	Cultural diversity and the conception of reality Report from the 3rd conference on psychiatric Research in the North, p.79-86
Minde, H	The norwegianization of the Sami: Why, how and with what consequences ?
Salomon, G:	Does Peace Education make a difference?	downl

Recommended readings

Archer, C. and Joenniemi, P	The Nordic Peace, Ashgate 2003, Ch. 1, 2
Pikas Anatol:	The shared concern method	downl
Salomon, G:	Does Peace Education work? and other articles	downl
Smith, P.K. and Sharp, S. (eds.):	School Bullying. Insights and Perspectives, London, N.Y. 1994, chs 5,8, p108-131, 193-212 (43 pp)

II: Social and Political Dynamics of conflict & violence:

J.P. Azam	‘The Redistributive State and Conflicts in Africa’, Journal of Peace Research 38:4 (2001), 429-444. (16 pp.)	downl
Alan Bairner	‘Masculinity, Violence and the Irish Peace Process’, Capital and Class 69 (Autumn 1999), 125-144. (20 pp.)
Mats Berdal and David M. Malone (eds.)	Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, Lynne Rienner: London, 2000, pp 1-15.
K. Barbieri and G. Schneider	‘Globalization and Peace: Assessing New Directions in the Study of Trade and Conflict’, Journal of Peace Rersearch, 36:4 (1999), 387-404. (18 pp.)	downl
Richard A. Bitzinger	'The Globalization of the Arms Industry: The Next Proliferation Challenge', International Security 19:2 (1994), s. 170?198. (29 pp.)	downl
Seyom Brown	‘World Interests and the Changing Dimensions of Security’, in M.T. Kare and D.C. Thomas, World Security: Challenges for a New Century (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 10-26. (17 pp.)
P. Collier	‘Economic Causes of Civil Conflicts and their Implications for Policy’, Working Paper, World Bank, 15 June, 2000. (21 pp.)	downl
P. Collier	‘On the Economic Consequences of Civil War’, Oxford Economic Papers 51 (1999), 168-83. (16 pp.)	downl
Audrey Kurth Cronin	‘Behind the Curve: Globalization and International Terrorism’, International Security 27:3 (Winter 2002/3), 30-58. (29 pp.)	downl
Ger Duijzings,	Introduction: Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. (London: Hurst&Company, 2000), Chs. 2,3 and 9. pp. 37-85 and 203-210. (56 pp.)
H. Hegre, R. Gassinger & N.P. Gleditsch	‘Globalization and Internal Conflict’, in G. Schneider, K Barbieri & NP Gleditsch (eds.), Globalization and Armed Conflict. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. (25 pp.)
Keen, David	Incentives and Disincentives for Violence’, in Berdal and Malone, 19-42. (24 pp.)
William Reno	‘Shadow States and the Political Economy of Civil Wars’, in Berdal and Malone, 43-68.
H. Mehlum and K O Moene	‘Contested Power and Political Instability’, Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 5 June, 2002. (21 pp.)	downl
Moran, Daniel	‘Strategic Theory and the History of War’, in John Baylis et al (eds.), Strategy in the Contmporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 17-44. (28 pp.)
P.S. Robinson	‘Hobson’s Choice: An Introduction’, in The Politics of International Crisis Escalation: Decision-making under Pressure (London: I.B. Tauris, 1996), 1-26. (26 pp.)
Rudmin, Floyd	HOW COGNITIVE HISTORY CAN CAUSE US TO MISPERCEIVE	downl
Shearer, David	‘Aiding or Abetting? Humanitarian Aid and Its Economic Role in Civil War’, in Berdal and Malone, 189-204. (16 pp.)

Recommended readings

Laura Neack	‘UN Peace-keeping: In the Interest of Community or Self?’, Journal of Peace Research 32:2 (1995), 181-196.
R. Osgood and R. Tucker	‘The Expansion of Force’, in Force, Order, and Justice (1967). K.B. Payne and C. D. Walton, ‘Deterrence in the Post-Cold War World’, in Baylis et al, 161-182.
Dan Rabinowitz	Overlooking Nazareth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1997)
K.B. Payne and C. D. Walton	‘Deterrence in the Post-Cold War World’, in Baylis et al, 161-182.

III: Institutions and Peace Building

Margolis, Joseph	‘War and Ideology’, in Virginia Held et al (eds.), Philosophy, Morality, and International Affairs (1974), 246-265. (20 pp.)
Walzer, Michael	Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, New York: Basic Books, 2000; ch.4 + ch.8 + ch.11 + ch.12
White, N.D.	The United Nations System: Toward International Justice (London: Lynne Rienner, 2002), Ch. 6: ‘Peace and Security’, section entitled ‘Peacekeeping: From Keeping Negative Peace to Promoting Positive Peace’, 161-165. (5 pp.)
Zur, Ofer	‘The Psychohistory of Warfare: The Co-Evolution of Culture, Psyche and Enemy’, Journal of Conflict Resolution 24:2 (1987), 125-134. (10 pp.)
	Select 150 pages from this site	downl

Recommended readings

Laura Neack	‘UN Peace-keeping: In the Interest of Community or Self?’, Journal of Peace Research 32:2 (1995), 181-196.
Michael Walzer,	Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, New York: Basic Books, 2000; 21-47, 75-85, 86-108 and 329-335 (required reading s for SVF-3021)

IV: Conflict management, conflict resolution and conflict transformation

Mark Juergenmeyer

"Gandhi's Way. A Handbook of Conflict Resolution", Oxford University Press 2002

V: Institutions and Peace Building; part II

Craig, Paul and de Búrca, Gráinne:	EU Law. Text, Cases, and Materials. Oxford University Press, 2003, 3rd edition, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 (315 pages, see syllabus for details on pages)
	Syllabus Per Christiansen: "Peace and the legal system"

Recommended readings

James, Anaya	Indigenous Peoples in International law
Michael Walzer,	Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, New York: Basic Books, 2000; 21-47, 75-85, 86-108 and 329-335 (required readings for SVF-3021)

VI: Literature and peace

Conrad, Joseph	Heart of Darkness, Oxford Edition, (150p: 7,5 = 20pp) (fiction)
Vonnegut Kurt	Slaughterhouse-5, (157p: 7,5 = 20pp) (fiction)
(theory)	“Preface”, “The Literary Imagination” and “Fancy” in Poetic Justice – The Literary Imagination and Public Life, 1995, Beacon Press, Boston, (60 pp)

Recommended readings

Heller, Joseph	Catch-22, Everyman’s Edition, [561p]
Coker, Christopher	: “Introduction”, “1 Humanising War” and “2 War and the renunciation of cruelty” in Humane Warfare, 2001, Routledge, London. [43p]
Peter J. Reed	“The End of the Road: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” in Modern Critical Interpretations: Slaughterhouse Five (ed. Harold Bloom), 2001, Chelsea House, Philadelphia [24p]
Bo Pettersson	C“Slaughterhouse Five” in The World According to Kurt Vonnegut, 1994, Åbo Akademi University Press [48p]
Chinua Achebe	”An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in Heart of Darkness - Norton Critical Edition (ed. by Robert Kimbrough), 1988, Norton Company, New York [11p]
C. P. Sarvan	”Racism and the Heart of Darkness” in Heart of Darkness - Norton Critical Edition (ed. by Robert Kimbrough), 1988, Norton Company, New York [5p]
Walter Benjamin	“The Storyteller” in Illuminations (ed. by Hannah Arendt) 1999, Pimlico: London [25p]
Clinton S. Burhans Jr	“Spindrift and the Sea: Structural Patterns and Unifying Elements in Catch-22” in Modern Critical Interpreations: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (ed. by Harold Bloom), 2001, Chelsea House, Philadelphia [12p]
Thomas Allen Nelson	“Theme and Structure in Catch-22” in Modern Critical Interpreations: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (ed. by Harold Bloom), 2001, Chelsea House, Philadelphia [10p]
Adam Hochschild	King Leopold’s Ghost 1999 [360p]

Readings Autumn 2003