TRANSCEND Peace University
Just War / Just Peace
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This course will be offered in the following terms.
1st term 2016 (March 14th - June 11th) → click here to enroll ←
Course instructor: Prof. Paul D. Scott
Iraq, Syria, Libya, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Sierra Leone, the Congo – these markers of extraordinary violence begs the question of how the international community has reacted and more importantly should respond to genocides, ethnic cleansings, politicides, and mass killings. This is a core issue in not only international law but also in the behavior of individual states and global institutions.
This course will explore the process of how not only what Responsibility to Protect is but how it has been operationalized.
The course will rely on on-line readings. Each topic will seek to ask and partially answer fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and operation of RtoP. Each discussion should take two weeks.
Week 1: Just War : Setting and debating thresholds.
Listen and critique President Obama's Nobel Prize Speech.
Week 2: Defining Jus ad bellum and jus in ello
Reading: http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/5kzjjd.htm
Week 3: International Law and the Protection of Civilians.
Readings: UN Charter, Chapters II, VI, and VII.
http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions/index.jsp
Week 4: The Failure of Institutions: Rwanda and its consequences
Reading: "Bystanders to Genocide."
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/bystanders-to-genocide/304571/
If possible see the documentary “Shake Hands with the Devil.
Week 5: RtoP
Core documents: http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/publications
Week 6: Libya, Syria, the Congo?
Did Libya meet the criteria for RtoP?
Why not Syria? The Congo?
Spirituality, Mind-Body, Gender, Ecology, Ageing, Peace, Scrapbook (in English and Korean)
