Peace Psychology

Pre-requisites: No prerequisites.

Course objectives: Peace psychology is a course that helps psychology students to understand the complexity of social conflicts and to recognize, correctly interpret and analyze conflicts in different areas and contexts.

Course description: 1. Social conflicts: the concept, types, functions, structure, dynamics 2. Psychological dimensions of conflict 3. Ways of resolving conflict: negotiation and mediation 4. Reconciliation 5. Conflict prevention 6. Assumptions and processes of building sustainable peace

Learning Outcomes: The course enables students to use basic skills in resolving conflicts, their prevention and peace building, and provides orientation for further research in this field of psychology.

Peace Psychology

Pre-requisites: No prerequisites.

Course objectives: Peace psychology is a course that helps psychology students to understand the complexity of social conflicts and to recognize, correctly interpret and analyze conflicts in different areas and contexts.

Course description: 1. Social conflicts: the concept, types, functions, structure, dynamics 2. Psychological dimensions of conflict 3. Ways of resolving conflict: negotiation and mediation 4. Reconciliation 5. Conflict prevention 6. Assumptions and processes of building sustainable peace

Learning Outcomes: The course enables students to use basic skills in resolving conflicts, their prevention and peace building, and provides orientation for further research in this field of psychology.

Literature/Reading:

• 1. Popadić, D., Plut, D., Kovač-Cerović, T. (urednici) (1996): Socijalni konflikti: karakteristiuke i način rešavanja. Beograd: Most
• Popadić, D., Mrše, S., Kovač-Cerović, T., Pečujlić-Mastilović, S., Kijevčanin, S., Petrović, D., Bogdanović, M. (1998). Pametniji ne popušta. Beograd: MOST, CAA.(deo)
• Popadić, D. (urednik) (2000), Uvod u mirovne studije. Beograd: MOST
• Priscilla Hayner: Neizrecive istine. Samizdat B92, Beograd, 2003. (deo)