Peace, Conflict and Justice
Peace, Conflict and Justice courses at the Trudeau Centre provide undergraduates with an interdisciplinary education in the complex relationships among conflict, peace, and justice. Students will study the causes of global, international, and local conflicts, and integrate analyses of peace-building and peace-making strategies in diverse social, political, and economic contexts. Students further examine the role of justice, and its complex connections to conflict and peace in a densely connected world. Citing the value of field experience, the program integrates study-abroad or service-learning experience into its curriculum. Topics of study include war, revolution, insurgency, ethnic strife, international justice, peace-building, and negotiation theory.
Programs
- Peace, Conflict and Justice (specialist and major options)
First-Year Courses
The Peace, Conflict and Justice program does not offer any courses at the first-year level. The foundation course for the program is PCJ 260Y1 - Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies, offered only to PCJ students at the second-year level. However, MUN101H1 - Global Innovation I: Issues and Perspectives and MUN102H1 - Global Innovation II: Challenges and Solutions provide excellent platforms for the program.
Advice for First Year
While these are not admission requirements, we strongly encourage students to take the following courses as they are program requirements:
- HIS 103Y1 – Statecraft and Strategy or ECO 100Y1 – Introduction to
Economics or ECO 105Y1 – Principles of Economics for
Non-Specialists
- PSY 100Y1 – Introductory Psychology or SOC 101Y1 – Introduction to
Sociology,
