EDLM 8024 - Conflict Management Seminar

3 cr.

What we believe and what we’ve been taught influences how we act in the development and resolution of conflict. Competence as a conflict intervener, then, is characterized in part by the ability to apply contemporary theory to inform practice and to reflect about one’s own conflict belief systems and the ways they influence intervention work. One part of this course explores interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks for interpreting conflict and examines the critical role of identity issues, including culture, gender, and class in the analysis and resolution of conflict. A second part of the course investigates the nature of reflective practice and creates a medium for students’ examination of their own beliefs about conflict and its resolution, with an emphasis on the influence those beliefs have on mediation practice and developing consistency between beliefs and practice.