This course is designed to provide an in-depth and multi-disciplinary perspective on the dynamic of civilian-based movements and campaigns that defend and obtain basic rights and justice, halt political oppression and facilitate democratic transitions and accountable governance. The course will examine the nature and attributes of civil resistance, its historical record and ffectiveness when compared to that of violent insurgency, factors that determine successes as well as failures of civil resistance, common misconceptions and framing of civil resistance with a specific emphasis on skills, strategic planning and tactics vis-a-vis structural externalities, long-term effects of civil resistance on democratic transformation and sustainability and new, emerging areas of civil resistance studies such as curbing extreme violence, stopping corruption, promoting equitable and sustainable development, media faming of civil resistance or women's rights movements.
Target group:
Postgraduate students and others interested in any of the broadly defined subjects on the role and impact of non-state actors, and purposeful agency, civil society organizations, social movements, civic mobilization, nonviolent actions and civil resistance.
The main aim of the module Euro-Mediterranean Studies (10 ECTS) is to provide participants with a broad understanding of the Euro-Mediterranean region from different perspectives (economical, social, political, cultural, environmental, etc).
Target group: Postgraduate students and others interested in the Euro-Mediterranean Studies.
The module Euro-Mediterranean Studies will be delivered at EMUNI University, Portorož - Piran, Slovenia in two terms (over a period of two to three weeks):
Courses in the 1st term (21 February to 12 March 2011)
