Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

This module provides an analytical foundation for a Masters level understanding of humanitarian intervention

This module aims to provide students with a Masters level knowledge of the role that the use of force can play in protecting human rights in cases of extreme humanitarian emergencies. Students apply conceptual material to specific cases of intervention.

The module introduces students to the moral, legal, political and strategic issues raised by UN authorized and non-UN authorized interventions in the post-Cold War era. It then applies to specific cases of intervention (Somalia, Rwanda, Kosovo, East Timor and to Afghanistan).

Students will have the opportunity to develop, practice and test a wide range of transferable skills that will help them to understand, conceptualise and evaluate the case study material. Throughout the course, students should practice and enhance their reading, comprehension and thinking skills, as well as basic numeric skills and self-management skills. In lectures students will develop listening and note taking skills, as well as analytical skills. In seminars students will enhance their analytical skills and will practice listening, explaining and debating skills, as well as team-work and problem solving. Essay writing will encourage students to practice their independent research, writing and IT skills, and the examination will test these skills under time constraint conditions.