PEAC 201 From Water to Chocolate: Environment, Conflict and Justice

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. correctly use vocabulary specific to peace and justice studies, environmental conflict and human security;
2. describe and depict relationships between and among concepts germane to the study of environment, conflict and justice – including, but not limited to environmental stress and violence; resource abundance and conflict; scarcity and conflict; environmental conditions and political power/democracy; and ecological restoration and human security;
3. examine how various actors create, contribute to, and change destructive and oppressive structures and forces within the diamond trade, metals mining, cocoa production, oil & gas extraction, hydro development, water management, and responses to climate change;
4. describe a variety of legal instruments (laws, decisions, agreements) that seek to establish, affirm and uphold Indigenous rights, environmental rights, and human rights more generally in the realms covered by the course; and offer a basic assessment of their effectiveness.
5. define and discuss specific examples of interventions employed by actors aiming to increase peace and justice in the environmental realm of – including certification, alternative development, shareholder activism, corporate social responsibility, international accompaniment, political solidarity, nonviolent direct action, fair trade, lobbying, cooperatives, environmental peacebuilding, and ecological restoration; and
6. pose critical questions about the interventions studied in the course.