Required Reading

Nordstrom, Carolyn (1997): A Different Kind of War Story. University of Pennsylvania Press. (Chapter 1). (See Materials below)

Pettersson; Therese and Magnus Öberg (2020): ‘Organized Violence 1989-2019’, Journal of Peace Research, 2018, vol. 57, 4: pp. 597-613 (See Materials below)

Ramsbotham et al., (2016), chapter 3, 4, 20.

Materials

Nordstrom A different kind of war story.pdf

Organized violence Uppsala.pdf

Responsible Teacher

Edme Dominguez

Groups

Please meet in the rooms assigned below. A teacher will come by during the seminar to take attendance and answer questions. If two or fewer people from your group attend a seminar, feel free to combine groups.

Group 1 (room 408)

Linda Andersson

Muammar Huq

Almedina Dzankovic

Jorick Jonathan Espeter

Anina Ricke

Alma Fors

Group 2 (room 410)

Asil Gafar

Franco Andres Causarano Cubilla

Sanna Karlsson

Mattias Rasmusson

Alice Wall

Soufiane Zahmoul

Group 3 (room 419)

Aliisa Julia Huhtala

Lean Carlo Luis Ong Ipac

Ida Klein

Adriaan Kolkman

Bahati Said

Group 4 (room 506)

Fathima Isamail

Dorotea Katthän

Juhani Lauronen

Niels Räf Stilborg

Syeda Tanzia

Make-Up Assignment

You must attend at least three seminars to pass this course. If you do not, you are required to write a 1,000-word paper (including in-text citations and excluding references) answering the guiding questions for the seminar you missed. (You are welcome to use the 10% rule on this assignment. That means your paper must be between 900 words and 1,100 words.) You must write three make-up papers if you have not attended any seminars.

Deadline

The deadline to submit make-up assignments for the Literature Seminars is Friday, June 2. Upload your make-up assignments on Canvas.

Guiding Questions

During this seminar, you and your classmates will focus on Level 1 of the Reading Progression Model (See below). Thus, you should try to understand each text. In doing so, please consider the following questions:

What is the main argument presented in the text?
How does the author support their argument?
Does each section stand alone and fit together to support the author's argument? Why or why not?
What are the limitations or weaknesses in the author's argument or approach?
What are the strengths of the author's argument or approach?

Reading Progression

Academic reading requires the development of interrelated skills. At a basic level, you must understand each text's main idea and argument. You then must put the text into conversation with other texts you have read in your program and discipline. Next, you must understand how the text speaks to the discipline. Specifically, how does the text add to your understanding of conflict resolution? What is unclear? What questions do you have about conflict resolution after reading the text? Ultimately, should understand how to use the text to enter the disciplinary conversation. In this course, you will enter the disciplinary conversation by writing Papers 1, 2, and 3.

It is important to note that in addition to achieving the goals of each reading level, you must become increasingly critical of what you are reading. Criticality is a fundamental tenet of academic discourse. It does not mean making fun of or poking holes in the work of others. Quite the opposite; in academic discourse, criticality is the ability to appreciate, problematize, and extend the work of others.

You achieve criticality by

1) acknowledging the author's contribution to the discipline,

2) summarizing their argument and evidence,

3) evaluating the persuasiveness of their argument and evidence, and

4) engaging in a conversation with the author's argument and evidence by highlighting what is missing or unclear, what work still needs to be done, and how the argument and evidence can be strengthened.

Please use the Reading Progression Model to prepare for each Literature Seminar, to discuss Required Reading during the Seminar, and to reflect on how you can use your discussion to prepare for and write Papers 1, 2, and 3.

***Please note***

Attendance will be taken during each Literature Seminar. You must attend at least three literature seminars to receive a pass (G) in this module. If you do not attend three Literature Seminars, you must complete a make-up assignment.