The Anthropology program is offering a CAS Social Science course focusing on comparative approaches to violence and peace in the 20th and 21st centuries, with special attention to themes of law and justice.
ANTH 3530 Anthropology of Violence and Peace meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:40-10:35 a.m.
It counts as a core course for the War and Peace major and certificate and as an elective course for the Law, Justice & Culture certificate. See additional courses in the Making and Breaking the Law theme as well as the War and Peace theme.
Course topics include:
- Colonialism and conquest
- Collaboration and complicity
- Authoritarianism
- Late modern colonial occupation
- Symbolic and structural violence
- Transitional justice
- Participatory justice and unofficial truth projects.
Spring 2015 students on Shankill Road in Northern Ireland.
The course complements the spring break study abroad program on Human Rights, Law & Justice in Northern Ireland, offered for the fourth consecutive year in Spring 2016.
ANTH 3530 is open to students from all majors. The course prerequisite is ANTH 1010: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
The course is taught by Dr. Haley Duschinski, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture.
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