College(Interdeptmnt) Courses 115 - Building Peace Post-Conflict

'How can societies build lasting peace when they emerge from violent internal conflicts facing widespread trauma and loss of life, a disintegration of the social fabric, weakened state institutions, and broken economic structures? From Syria to Guatemala, countries around the world wrestle with this question. We explore the interaction and impact of key factors on the effectiveness of peace building in post-conflict environments: processes of transitional justice (e.g. amnesty, tribunals), forms of reconciliation and memory (e.g. rituals of healing, cultural forms of memorialization), and conditions for economic and social policies (e.g. institutional capacity, resource mobilization). Course culminates in conference with international experts.'