PJST 1101

(3 Credits) 3 Lecture hours, Lecture This course introduces students to Peace and Justice Studies. It offers a conceptual overview of the field in various national, regional, and global contexts. Students will learn about colonialism, settler colonialism, imperialism, civil wars, inter-state wars and conflicts, with a focus on structural violence and how that poses a major challenge to achieving peace and justice. Course material will explore past and ongoing cases of structural violence across the globe by foregrounding and centralizing the quest for anti-racist, anti-imperial, and decolonial peace and justice in their learning.