Post-Conflict Diplomacy and Transitional Justice | Global Diplomacy & Leadership Excellence

$800

Course Description:

This course prepares diplomats to support peacebuilding and justice initiatives in post-conflict settings. Participants will explore tools for reconciliation, legal redress, institution rebuilding, and transitional governance. Through case studies, dialogue design, and scenario planning, students will build skills to address legacies of violence and promote long-term stability.

Course Length:

6 weeks (36 total instructional hours)

Proficiency Level:

Advanced

Prerequisite:

Completion of a lower-intermediate ESL course or equivalent language proficiency

Course Objectives:

  • Define post-conflict diplomacy and transitional justice.
  • Analyze peace agreements and mechanisms for transitional governance.
  • Evaluate truth commissions, reparations, and international tribunals.
  • Assess the role of diplomats in promoting reconciliation and reform.
  • Support local ownership of justice and accountability processes.
  • Coordinate international assistance to post-conflict states.
  • Design dialogue processes that include victims and marginalized groups.
  • Navigate challenges of amnesty, prosecution, and reconciliation.
  • Apply lessons from global case studies of transitional justice.
  • Develop a diplomatic plan to support post-conflict recovery and peace.

Description

Unit 1: Introduction to Post-Conflict Diplomacy

Introduces diplomacy’s role in recovery, stability, and transitional governance.

Learning Objectives:
– Define post-conflict diplomacy and transitional justice.
– Analyze peace agreements and mechanisms for transitional governance.

Content: Introduces diplomacy’s role in recovery, stability, and transitional governance.

Activity: Map global transitional justice mechanisms.

Assessment: Mechanism map rubric and comparison paper.

Unit 2: Principles and Tools of Transitional Justice

Outlines legal, political, and cultural approaches to addressing past abuses.

Learning Objectives:
– Analyze peace agreements and mechanisms for transitional governance.
– Evaluate truth commissions, reparations, and international tribunals.

Content: Outlines legal, political, and cultural approaches to addressing past abuses.

Activity: Critique a recent peace agreement and propose revisions.

Assessment: Peace agreement critique and revision memo.

Unit 3: Peace Agreements and Power-Sharing Models

Analyzes peace frameworks and negotiation outcomes.

Learning Objectives:
– Evaluate truth commissions, reparations, and international tribunals.
– Assess the role of diplomats in promoting reconciliation and reform.

Content: Analyzes peace frameworks and negotiation outcomes.

Activity: Draft a mission report on truth commission participation.

Assessment: Report submission and peer feedback.

Unit 4: Truth Commissions and National Reconciliation

Explores the mandate and limitations of truth-seeking bodies.

Learning Objectives:
– Assess the role of diplomats in promoting reconciliation and reform.
– Support local ownership of justice and accountability processes.

Content: Explores the mandate and limitations of truth-seeking bodies.

Activity: Create a reparations framework with stakeholder input.

Assessment: Framework proposal and instructor scoring guide.

Unit 5: Reparations, Restitution, and Justice for Victims

Reviews material and symbolic responses to injustice.

Learning Objectives:
– Support local ownership of justice and accountability processes.
– Coordinate international assistance to post-conflict states.

Content: Reviews material and symbolic responses to injustice.

Activity: Simulate a hybrid court negotiation between stakeholders.

Assessment: Negotiation rubric and legal analysis memo.

Unit 6: Hybrid Courts and International Tribunals

Covers mixed models of justice and their diplomatic implications.

Learning Objectives:
– Coordinate international assistance to post-conflict states.
– Design dialogue processes that include victims and marginalized groups.

Content: Covers mixed models of justice and their diplomatic implications.

Activity: Facilitate a mock dialogue with affected communities.

Assessment: Dialogue role-play debrief and evaluation.

Unit 7: Inclusive Dialogue and Grassroots Engagement

Teaches strategies for inclusive consultation and trust-building.

Learning Objectives:
– Design dialogue processes that include victims and marginalized groups.
– Navigate challenges of amnesty, prosecution, and reconciliation.

Content: Teaches strategies for inclusive consultation and trust-building.

Activity: Design a reform roadmap for transitional legal systems.

Assessment: Roadmap presentation and content quality score.

Unit 8: Institution Building and Legal Reform

Focuses on reforming institutions for lasting peace.

Learning Objectives:
– Navigate challenges of amnesty, prosecution, and reconciliation.
– Apply lessons from global case studies of transitional justice.

Content: Focuses on reforming institutions for lasting peace.

Activity: Build a stakeholder coordination matrix.

Assessment: Matrix evaluation and group report.

Unit 9: Simulation: Supporting a Peace Process Implementation

Simulates support for a fragile post-conflict settlement.

Learning Objectives:
– Apply lessons from global case studies of transitional justice.
– Develop a diplomatic plan to support post-conflict recovery and peace.

Content: Simulates support for a fragile post-conflict settlement.

Activity: Lead a simulation session for peace implementation oversight.

Assessment: Simulation performance rubric and facilitator review.

Unit 10: Capstone: Post-Conflict Diplomacy and Justice Strategy

Students develop a full strategy for post-conflict diplomatic engagement.

Learning Objectives:
– Develop a diplomatic plan to support post-conflict recovery and peace.
– Define post-conflict diplomacy and transitional justice.

Content: Students develop a full strategy for post-conflict diplomatic engagement.

Activity: Present a country-specific post-conflict strategy proposal.

Assessment: Capstone strategy report and oral presentation.

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