This seminar focuses on interventions to resolve or manage armed conflicts. The texts are selected to stimulate a discussion about what is considered "just war" and about how military interventions and peacekeeping missions can support - or hinder - peace.

Required Reading

-Volker Franke & Karen Guttieri (2019): United Nations peacekeeping in international conflict management, in Butcher, Charity & Maia Carter Hallward. Understanding International Conflict Management.

-Helen Frowe (2022): The Ethics of War and Peace. An Introduction, Routledge, Chapter 3 "The conditions of jus ad bellum".

-Ramesh Takur (2016): The United Nations, Peace and Security. From Collective Security to Responsibility to Protect, Chapter 9 "Afghanistan, Libya and Syria: Unauthorised interventions and nonintervention".

Preparation

In preparation for the seminar you must read the mandatory texts and prepare at least five questions or discussion points, which you will use in the discussion. You can bring these on paper or electronically (as long as you can read them yourself and show them to the teacher at the seminar).

Responsible teacher

Camilla Orjuela and/or Elizabeth Olsson.

Meeting room

Please meet in room 419 where the responsible teacher will take attendance and answer your questions. After that, you will divide into small groups and hold your seminar in an assigned group room.

Attendance and make-up assignment

To pass the course, you need to attend and participate in at least three of the five literature seminars. For your participation to "count", you also need to bring your questions/discussion points to the seminar. If you, due to illness or other serious circumstances, are unable to attend three seminars (including bringing written discussion points), please contact the course coordinators for a make-up assignment.

To get the most out of the course, we of course recommend you to attend all five literature seminars.