The Certificate in Peace Building, Stabilization, and Humanitarian Affairs is designed to provide an understanding of the principles required for establishing stable and effective states, whose institutions seek to promote freedom, human rights, justice, the rule of law, and economic growth in the context of American foreign policy and ongoing global challenges.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of basic terms, concepts, history, theories, and geography related to peace building, stabilization, and humanitarian affairs.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the principles required for establishing stable and effective states, whose institutions seek to promote freedom, human rights, justice, the rule of law, and economic growth in the context of American foreign policy and ongoing global challenges.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to assess arguments, identify logical flaws, and obtain supporting or corrective information.
- Students will demonstrate the use of clear, effective and persuasive communications.
Curriculum
This certificate requires a total of 22 credits, as detailed below.
- IWP 608 Sources of American Political Thought (2 credits) OR IWP 626 Foundations of Political and Economic Freedom
- IWP 625 Peace, Strategy and Conflict Resolution
- IWP 621 Conflict Prevention and Stabilization: Democracy Building in U.S. Foreign Policy OR IWP 640 Cultural Intelligence for Strategy and Analysis
- IWP 642 Economics for Foreign Policy Makers (2 credits)
- IWP 649 Mass Murder Prevention in Failed and Failing States
- IWP 670 Peace Through Development: Deterring Terror and Building Alliances