“Each student will, throughout the semester, be involved in developing a research quality
paper on an international protracted social conflict that is the result border dispute or partition (e.g., Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, NE Indian States, Ireland, etc.). This paper will be greater in length, depth, and focus than mid-term papers and will require citation from peace and conflict studies literature to make a novel argument about changing the current conflict dynamic of the conflict. What does the history and analysis of colonial history tell you about how to change the conflict in prosocial ways that would lead to more nonviolent outcomes.Papers will be graded on: logical and concise argumentation, integrations of conflict and postcolonial literature and
counterarguments, clarity of thesis, and overall effectiveness of writing (grammar, syntax,
and creative ability for written expression).”
These are the directions for the paper. This is for a peace and conflict studies class. The class is centered around border disputes and conflict as well as generative othering narratives.