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Course: 2024/2025

Conflict, Violence and Development
(19181)
Master in Global Sustainable Development and Global Governance (Plan: 473 - Estudio: 376)
EPC


Coordinating teacher: NICOLINI ALESSI, ESTEBAN ALBERTO

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course: 2º
Semester: 1º



Objectives
-Ability to understand the existing theoretical perspectives regarding the links between economic development and violence -Capacity to analyze the dynamics of civil wars -Ability to comprehend and contextualize the types of conflict -Capacity to analyze the socio-political and economic consequences of conflict
Skills and learning outcomes
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Description of contents: programme
-The impact of lower levels of economic development on violence -Violent conflict and the resource curse -The effect of low state capacity on violence -Social heterogeneity and violence -The dynamics of civil wars -Ethnic civil wars -Jihadist conflicts: civil war and terrorism -Post-conflict societies -The long-term consequences of conflict for development and growth -The impact of violence on social trust
Learning activities and methodology
Lectures Seminars Tutorials Debates Group assignments/ papers Individual assignments/ papers Final exam/ paper
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 70
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 30




Basic Bibliography
  • Besley, Timothy, and Torsten Persson. Pillars of prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters. . Princeton: Princeton University Press.. 2011
  • De la Calle, Luis & Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca. . Underground Violence. On the Nature of Terrorism. . Oxford: Oxford University Press.. 2024
  • Gat, Azar. . The Causes of War and the Spread of Peace. . Oxford: Oxford University Press.. 2017
  • North, Douglass, John Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast. . Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.. 2009
Additional Bibliography
  • Hoffman, Philip. . Why Did Europe Conquer the World?. Princeton: Princeton University Press. . 2015
  • Pinker, Steven.. The Better Angels of our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes. . London: Penguin.. 2011

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.