SS476 covers the entire life-cycle of civil conflict from onset, to dynamics, to termination. Through the use of a rich theoretical and empirical literature on conflict and a range of political science methodologies, it examines questions such as: what causes civil wars? Why do certain patterns of violence occur in civil wars? What makes civil wars so hard to end? What is the impact of third parties on termination of civil wars? The course emphasizes the theory and practice of civil war settlement and termination with particular attention to the role of third parties.
