This interdisciplinary colloquium explores conflict, negotiation, and dispute resolution with particular emphasis on conflicts and disputes with an international dimension, including conflicts involving states, peoples, and political factions (notably, in the Middle East and Northern Ireland). The course is sponsored by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). Each week features a lecture by a different speaker; lecturers include SCICN faculty and affiliated scholars, guest lecturers, and experienced practitioners from around the world. The course addresses the relevant issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including international law, psychology, and political science, but also economics, anthropology, and criminology. The course is open to interested graduate and advanced undergraduates from across the university, including the Schools of Law and Business.
Special Instructions: A limited number of Second- and Third-Year Law students who are enrolled in the Colloquium may also petition to receive up to two units of directed research credit for original written work on conflict and dispute resolution. The topic must be approved by the instructor. Writers will be graded under the H/P/R/F grading basis and will receive Research credit. Directed Research petitions are available in the Registrar's Office.
This course will be cross-listed with the Inernational Policy Studies, Political Science, and Psychology Departments (Same as IPS 250A, POLISCI 403, and PSYCH 283).
This course is open to first-year Law School students.
All lectures are open to the public.