Overview

This minor introduces students to new ways and approaches to understanding security including issues around human security such as the environment and climate change. It provides knowledge about the causes, consequences and challenges of managing and mitigating conflict and violence and the role of sates, non-government organisations (NGOs), social movements, … For more content click the Read More button below.

Learning outcomes

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Student will recognise, interpret and analyse mainstream and critical theoretical perspectives on security
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Students will be able to use various frameworks and perspectives to analyse key issues and problems of human security and human rights
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Students will have the capacity to situate political violence in a broader political context
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Students will be able to apply these perspectives and concepts to illuminate and examine a new or existing problem of human security and human rights.
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Students will be apply critical security frameworks to the understanding of non state actors, issues and conflicts and to engage with other perspectives on security
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Students will be able to understand security and conflict in a cross cultural context
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Students will be able to identify and recognise the relationship between social justice , security and political conflict.