This semester, faculty are offering a number of new seminars for Ph.D. students in peace studies. Classes offered for the first time include:
- Causes of Interstate Peace — Gary Goertz
- Theology and Peacebuilding — Emmanuel Katongole
- Coercion and Persuasion — George Lopez
- Conflict Transformation through Dialogue — Julie Macfarland
- Peace Research Methods — Patrick Regan
Also this semester, courses offered to master’s students in international peace studies include (these are just a sampling):
- Political Economy of Globalization — Martin Wolfson
- Policy Advocacy and Nonviolent Social Change — David Cortright
- Gender and Peace Studies (new) — Laura Heidman
- Islamic Ethics of War & Peace — Rashied Omar
- Conflict Transformation and Strategic Peacebuilding — John Paul Lederach
Undergraduate courses in peace studies this semester include:
- Restorative Justice (new) — Margie Pfeil and Susan Sharp
- War, Peace, and the Catholic Imagination (new) — Gerard Powers
- Central America in the Cold War (new) — Ryne Clos
- Contemporary Dictatorship (new) — Alex Dukalskis
- Catholic Social Teaching in Action (new) — Todd Whitmore
- When Tolerance Is Not Enough: Peacebuilding in Contexts of Structural and Cultural Violence— Jason Springs
Spring semester classes begin on January 15.