The course will focus on the ways that some international organisations make decisions and on the impact of these decisions in policymaking and diplomacy. Mediation and negotiation will be analysed as tools of conflict prevention, conflict management and in the context of post-conflict reconstruction. After an introduction of the organisations, their legal framework and their history, the course will look at the possibility of their use for the prevention of conflict, its management as well for post conflict rehabilitation and conflict transformation. This will be demonstrated using the example of real life cases, where the discussion will focus on their performance, their shortcomings and their potentials.
This course is for 1st year MIA students only.
