Overview
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Offerings
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2024-2024
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-MIXEDMODE-2026-2026
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-MIXEDMODE-2025-2025
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2024-2024
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-MIXEDMODE-2026-2026
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2024-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-2025
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2027-2027
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2024-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-2025
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2027-2027
OUA-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-2025
OUA-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2027-2027
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Learning activities
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Learning outcomes
1.
Communicate an in-depth knowledge of the security implications of climate change and resource competition.
2.
Research and report the principle perspectives on environmental conflicts and how they inform policy and research.
3.
Analyse a broad range of environmental conflicts, including their causes, dynamics and potential solutions.
4.
Identify and explain the role of environmental factors in peace processes.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:
- Intro: peace, conflict, security
- Historical debates about environmental security
- Resource scarcity and armed conflict
- Climate change and conflict
- Resource abundance, conflict resources and violence
- Environmental peacebuilding
- Critical approaches: Political ecology and securitisation
- Case study: Arab Spring/Middle East
- Case study: Mining in WA
- Case study: Environmental conflicts in Africa (DRC, Kenya, Nigeria)
- Case study: Violence against environmental defenders
- Case study: Water wars