GS40100

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, participants will have
• gained knowledge of critical frameworks for examining and understanding harm, violence and justice from a feminist, gender and decolonial perspective;
• honed skills on how to ask critical questions of the politics of harm, peace, transition and justice;
• furthered research and analytical skills, including how to produce a gender analysis of harm and justice through using literary as well as scholarly resources.

Indicative Module Content:

The module covers feminist theories of conflict, harm and violence; introduces students to scholarly debates on understanding sexualised as well as broader gendered harms in contexts of conflict and peacebuilding; it uses feminist, gender, intersectional and decolonial theories and critiques of peace, transition and transitional justice as its frame; it offers some exposure to the applied examination of mechanisms such as truth commissions and reparations processes.

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Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Those taking this course would bring an interest in feminist and broader gender theories of violence, harm and justice; a specific interest in conflict-related human rights violations and specifically the experiences of armed conflict for civilians; and a broader interest in global conflicts, the idea of peace and peacebuilding and the practice of transitional justice post-conflict.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

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