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The Maria Grzegorzewska University
Courses in foreign languages
2015-2016
Conflicts Resolution in Multicultural Societies
I (undergraduate – B.A.) √ II (graduate – M.A.) √ III postgraduate
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1st semester √ 2nd semester√
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Ewa Dąbrowa
Urszula Markowska-Manista
Ph.D.
Ewa Dąbrowa & Urszula Markowska-Manista Academy of Special Education,
Institute of Education, Chair of Basic Education
Janusz Korczak UNESCO Chair (Urszula Markowska-Manista)
This course focuses on cultural conflicts in modern societies. Emphasis is placed on:
Poverty, Conflicts, Security and Education
Changes in the modern world and the emergence of conflicts.
Contextualizing Multicultural Societies
Conflict in classic and dialectic theory
Specificity of the cultural conflicts
Reasons of cultural conflicts
Role of the differences in conflicts
Dimension of cultural conflict
Cultural conflicts of the modern world – essences and ways of their solving
Conflict as source of genocide
Dialogue and agreement-constructive role of conflicts
Largest conflicts of last years
Preparing for conflict resolution - methods and principles
Involvement of individuals and organizations in resolving cultural conflicts
Education and conflict resolution.
1. Berberoglu B., Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Class, State, and Nation
in the Age of Globalization, Rowman&Littlefield, 2004.
2. Busumtwi-Sam James, “Development and Human Security: Whose
Security, and from What?”, International Journal, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Spring,
2002), pp. 253-272.
3. Education and conflict: research, policy and practice
http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/EducationSupplement/full.pdf
4. Winslade, J., Gerald Monk, Narrative mediation: A new approach to
conflict resolution, 2000.
5. Moghaddam F.M., Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations:
Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context, Amer
Psychological Assn, 2007.
6. Arendt H., The Origins of Totalitarianism, New York: Harcourt, Brace
and Co, 1951.
7. Harff B., Gurr Ted R., “Toward Empirical Theory of Genocides and
Politicides: Identification and Measurement of Cases since 1945,”
International Studies Quarterly 32, 1988, pp. 359–71; 1996 “Victims of
the State: Genocides, Politicides and Group Repression from 1945 to
1995,” in: Jongman A.J. (ed.) Contemporary Genocides: Causes, Cases,
Consequences, Leiden: PIOOM/University of Leiden: pp. 33–58.
8. Kiernan B., Blood and Soil. A World History of Genocide and
extermination from Sparta to Darfur, Yale: Yale University Press 2007.
9. Ross M.H., Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict, Cambridge
University, 2007.
10. Sengstock M.C., Voices of Diversity, Clinical Sociology Research And
Practice, 2009.
11. Wagschal U., Schwank N., Trinn Ch., Croissant A., Culture and Conflict
in Global Perspective, Bertelsmann Stiftung 2010.
12. Other publications will be proposed during the seminar
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Basic knowledge of problems in the global world
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Urszula Markowska-Manista: [email protected]
Ewa Dąbrowa: [email protected]