Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University


CISAC Courses


International Conflict: Management and Resolution

Course number(s): IPS 250/POLISCI 210R/310R/PSYCH 383/LAW 656
Offered Winter quarter in the 2009-2010 academic year

Instructors
David Holloway - Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and FSI Senior Fellow; CISAC Faculty Member; Forum on Contemporary Europe Research Affiliate; CDDRL Affiliated Faculty
Allen S. Weiner - Senior Lecturer in Law; Co-Director, Stanford Program in International Law; Co-Director, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation; CDDRL and CISAC Faculty Member; Forum on Contemporary Europe Research Affiliate
Byron Bland - Associate Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation; CDDRL Affiliated Faculty

Interdisciplinary. Theoretical insights and practical experience in resolving inter-group and international conflicts. Sources include social psychology, political science, game theory, and international law. Personal, strategic, and structural barriers to solutions. How to develop a vision of a mutually bearable shared future, trust in the enemy, and acceptance of loss that a negotiated settlement may produce. Spoilers who seek to sabotage agreements. Advantages and disadvantages of unilateral versus reciprocal measures. Themes from the Stanford Center of International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN).

Level
Graduate and undergraduate

Units
3

Department
International Policy Studies/Department of Political Science/Department of Psychology
School of Humanities and Sciences/School of Law