LAW42290

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.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

The course is delivered in two-hour seminars where active participation of students in classroom discussion is expected.

Readings include scholarly and policy/grey literature, as well as literary fiction, as a means to critique and explore ways of examining gendered ideas of conflict, harm and transitional justice.

Students on this module are expected to have read and understood the UCD Academic Integrity Policy and the School Protocol on Academic Integrity. Students must ensure that they comply with all requirements laid down therein and avoid academic misconduct.

Students are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence, or other machine learning technology, in their learning and in completing assessments on this module.

Students are expected to use and adhere to the Harvard Referencing Style in all assignments. The guidance provided by UCD Library website for using that style should be followed. Guidance on academic conventions that students are expected to adhere to for this module will be provided during class when module assessments are being assigned.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning 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. No prior knowledge of international law or on theories for understanding armed conflict are required to take this course.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Equivalents:
Gender, Harm and Justice (GS40100)


 

Assessment Strategy

 

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Feedback Strategy/Strategies

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