IR5704
Mediation: Community and Global Praxis
2024-2025
30
15
SCQF level 11
1
Academic year(s): 2024-2025
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 1
Planned timetable:
The module situates mediation concepts, assumptions, and practices within the fields of critical, feminist, and post-/de-colonial peace and conflict studies to: contextualise and critique mediation levels (tracks), locate the presence and absence of diverse mediation actors, explore the affective power of mediation languages and discourses, and teach critical reading and archival collation of mediation texts. The module deploys case studies of mediation that cut across levels of interactions and involve differently-located actors, including: the role of Scotland as a mediator; the University as a site of mediation; local, community-level, and indigenous approaches to mediation; and international dispute management and resolution. The module affords students additional learning and professional development opportunities through student-led Mediation in Scotland research praxis groups, and formal mediation training towards Scottish mediation accreditation.
Co-requisite(s): null
Weekly contact: 2-hour seminar (x 10 weeks)
Scheduled learning hours: 97
Guided independent study hours: 212
As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%
Re-assessment: 3-hour Written Examination =100%
Module coordinator: Dr K Giri
Module teaching staff: Dr Keshab Giri
Module coordinator email kg233@st-andrews.ac.uk