IR5704 Mediation: Community and Global Praxis

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

Mon 11am-1pm

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Module coordinator

Dr K Giri

Dr K Giri
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Module Staff

Dr K Giri

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Module description

This module situates mediation concepts, assumptions, and practices within the fields of critical, feminist, and post-/de-colonial peace and conflict studies. It applies insights from these fields to contextualise and critique mediation levels (‘tracks’), locate the presence and absence of diverse mediation actors, explore the affective power of languages and discourses of mediation, and teach critical reading and archival collation of traditional, surprising, aesthetic, and community-generated mediation texts. Its critical orientation centres questions about who mediates what for whom. The module deploys case studies of mediation that cut across levels of interactions and involve differently-located actors. It also features a mediation and negotiation simulation.

Relationship to other modules

Co-requisites

YOU MUST ALSO TAKE IR5705

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Written Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1x2 hour seminar (x10 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

22

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

266

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Develop an understanding of the key concepts, assumptions, and practices of international mediation
  • Challenge the temporal and spatial location of mediation, through a structured case study approach drawing on indigenous, community-level, and other mediation sites
  • Understand and apply theoretical insights from feminism, critical theory, and post-/de-colonial approaches to identify absent and alternative mediation ideas, subjectivities, and practices
  • Develop a critical understanding of diverse mediation actors, levels, and approaches across a range of issues relevant to conflict management and resolution
  • Achieve an in-depth and rigorous understanding of case studies and how they might contribute to theoretical thinking
  • Hone reflexive writing and case study research and writing skills