Spring 2022 | PA 5890 Section 001: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Fact-Finding Investigations on Human Rights (66846)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 15 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Online CourseTopics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 35
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (16 of 16 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?WALSH912+PA5890+Spring2022
- Class Description:
This course will familiarize you with core principles and techniques for human rights fact-finding, focusing especially on interviews.
You'll learn practical skills, such as: planning and preparing for fact-finding interviews; navigating ethical and security challenges; tailoring interviews for specific populations; interviewing government or corporate officials; conducting remote interviews; minimizing the risk of retraumatization and vicarious trauma; and adapting fact-finding approaches for restricted or challenging locations.
This seminar uses role-play simulations as a learning tool. Most weeks, you will "learn by doing" as we spend one class session discussing topics and techniques, and the other doing role play exercises in pairs of students. After many shorter practice sessions in class, you'll do a full, in-depth mock interview with me based on a hypothetical scenario.
You will also engage with guest speakers with human rights interviewing experience, and learn by reading methodology sections of recent human rights fact-finding reports.
- Learning Objectives:
Through this course, you will understand what fact-finding is, and how fact-finding interviews are used in the human rights field. More specifically, you will develop interviewing skills and knowledge that will enable you to:
Understand core standards and ethical considerations for human rights interviews
Mitigate risks of retraumatization and vicarious trauma
Interview survivors of human rights abuses, and understand best practices for interviewing specific populations
Interview civil society advocates and service providers
Interview government or corporate officials
Navigate remote interviews
Assess and handle security risks for interviews
Obtain data and information from official sources
- Grading:
- A-F or S/N
- Exam Format:
- The assignments are short and practical. They're designed to build your skills in planning and conducting human rights interviews. There is no lengthy written paper assignment, and no final exam.
- Workload:
- Commensurate with other graduate-level courses, though readings are typically shorter.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66846/1223
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2022.pdf
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2023.pdf (Spring 2023)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2021.pdf (Spring 2021)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Fall2020.pdf (Fall 2020) - Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 24 October 2021
Spring 2022 | PA 5890 Section 002: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Politics & Law of Conflict Mgmt & Intervention (66847)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 15 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Online CourseTopics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Tue, Thu 08:15AM - 09:30AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (17 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- Course will be offered REMOTELY (synchronously online). Full title: "Politics & Law of Conflict Mgmt & Intervention." Some knowledge of international relations will be useful as a basis for this course. 50A Humphrey School has been reserved for students to use during the scheduled class time. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mukho017+PA5890+Spring2022
- Class Description:
- This course will invite students to consider the ways in which politics and law inform, undermine, and bypass one another in the realm of conflict management and military intervention. We will draw from a rich set of cases across time and space to examine the notion of "threats to peace and security" as it has evolved. We will, then, turn to the basket of instruments that make up contemporary intervention and conflict-management, starting with prevention and the right to exercise self-defense. We will, then, move into the space of military interventions that have been framed (both strictly and loosely) as means of keeping or restoring the peace. From here, we will enter the arena of more aggressive interventions, those that aim at the breaking, making, or remaking of states. Finally, we will consider the newest frontiers of intervention, those that have been charted in the last decade. Shadowy threats and elusive enemies have led to a variety of new, often controversial campaigns. New kinds of technology that could only have been imagined a few decades ago have made possible unprecedented forms of stealth and interference. And, yet, some of the world's most powerful states find themselves struggling on and off the battlefield. This is the conundrum we will consider in this final section of the course. Even as we consider the politics and geopolitics at hand, we will situate our empirical analysis of each case and/or phenomenon within the larger context of key legal doctrines, debates, and dilemmas. Unlike other survey courses on conflict management, we will not approach the material as a chronological catalog of interventions. Instead, we will engage the material thematically, juxtaposing more contemporary cases with historical ones in order to understand the various evolutions in political, legal, and operational thought.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66847/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 November 2020
Spring 2022 | PA 5890 Section 003: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- 2nd Yr MHR Cohort II (66694)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 0.5 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 15 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- S-N only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Online CourseTopics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/24/2022Mon 11:30AM - 12:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 13102/07/2022Mon 11:30AM - 12:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 13102/21/2022Mon 11:30AM - 12:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 13103/21/2022Mon 11:30AM - 12:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 13104/04/2022Mon 11:30AM - 12:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 13104/18/2022Mon 11:30AM - 12:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 13105/02/2022Mon 11:30AM - 12:45PMUMTC, West BankHubert H Humphrey Center 131
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 20 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- This offering is for 2nd-Year MHR students only. MHR students entering in Fall 2021 should register for PA 5887. Class will meet every other week. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?walsh912+PA5890+Spring2022
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66694/1223
- Syllabus:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2022.pdf
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2023.pdf (Spring 2023)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Spring2021.pdf (Spring 2021)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/walsh912_PA5890_Fall2020.pdf (Fall 2020)
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