Convenor name: Althea-Maria Rivas
Convenor email: ar66@soas.ac.uk
Office room: MB 294
Office hours: Mondays 12:00-14:00
Appointment booking link: https://outlook.office.com/book/DrAltheaMariaRivasOfficeHours2526@soas.ac.uk/
Module dates: Semester 1
Intended learning outcomes:
- Understand and critically evaluate the diverse spectrum of theoretical approaches that exist to explain and categorise approaches to peace, with an emphasis on critical and global theories, and the political, historical, anthropological approaches to the study of peace and related programming strategies
- Understand and employ a decolonial, intersectional framework to investigate and research scholarly debates related to peace and conflict and critically apply the concepts and ideas to everyday experiences, current events and national and global politics
- Develop an understanding of the key actors, institutions and policy processes at various levels from the global to the local and their relationships.
- Develop an awareness of diverse approaches to peace, including knowledge of current debates on the nature of everyday peace and, resistance, activism, and social mobilisation and critiques associated with `bottom up' approaches and hybrid forms of peace
- Analyse and communicate to others the diverse ways in which people have challenged violence and injustice and promoted social and political transformation at the global and local level
- Gain basic level practical skills in conflict resolution and mediation, and peace research
Assessment 1: Name: Assignment 1 (AS1)
Assessment 1: Weighting: 50%
Assessment 1: Due date: 21 November 2025
Assessment 1: Permitted AI usage: Autonomy
Assessment 1: Format: In-class Presentation
Assessment 2: Name: Assignment 2 (AS2)
Assessment 2: Weighting: 75%
Assessment 2: Due date: 16 January 2026
Assessment 2: Permitted AI usage: Autonomy
Assessment 2: Format: 3000-word Essay
Page type: Module
Study year: 2025/26
Librarian name: Farzana Qureshi
Librarian email: fq@soas.ac.uk
Page template: 2025/26 On campus
