Legal Framework for Conflict Management

Course Description:

CAMN 510*: Introduces principles and concepts of law to students in the Ethnic and Political Conflict concentration the MA in Conflict Analysis and Management program. Focuses on the structures and processes of contemporary Canadian and international legal systems, and provides a critically reflective exploration of the way in which law and other processes of dispute resolution overlap and potentially conflict. Develops an understanding of the pervasive role of law, as well as its limitations, in conflict resolution and management, domestically, internationally, and in the context of ethnic and political conflict. Topics include the adversarial philosophy of common law litigation, tensions between normative and dispute resolution roles of law, legal pluralism and the emergence of international law, non-adversarial processes, alternative dispute resolution processes and their conceptual challenge to legal hegemony. (2 credits)

*Pre-requisites: CAMN 500, CAMN 520