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| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination Some Aid allowed Own project report and personal notes Description of Examination: Final Examination Project Report and oral examination. Description of Examination: The student is tested on the specific themes and topics related to the student's individually prepared project report. Questions are broad and discussion oriented. The project report is evaluated in relation to the core areas of competence of the course. The oral examination may go beyond the content of the project to assess the student's grasp of the overall course syllabus, with particular emphasis on its relevance to the student's project. Weight: Project report 60% Oral examination: 40% 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Active participation in class activities and discussion. Successful completion of 1) personal communication and conflict style self-assessment and 2) political culture assessment. Both assessments must be evaluated "passed" prior to final examination. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, small group discussions, exercises, assignments, and an individual project report. This course is offered every second year in block 4. Next time will be in 2010. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 4 Week Structure: A Week Structure: To be assigned to minimize scheduling conflicts. Lectures, exercises and assignments are distributed within the Block. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 400023 Conflict Management It is recommended to have knowledge, skills, and competences from or equalling the course "Conflict Management" (no. 400023) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | A maximum of 50 students. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course design and objectives have been constructed to response to the unique challenges and learning opportunity that a broadly international student population creates. This course operates at two distinctly different levels: the personal level, and the process level. The emphasis on the personal level comes from the recognition that the natural resource management professions involve an inevitable component of conflict-laden decisionmaking. Most MSc candidates working with natural resource management, planning, development, and e.g. landscape architecture must collaborate across disciplines with representatives from other educations and sectors. Often they act in conflicted situations be it as part of political decision making, public or private management or in relation to an involved, often antagonistic general public. Constructive management of complex and conflict laden problems is one of the key demands to actors in contemporary natural resource management - whether taking place in a public or private setting. Being skilled in this arena is part of an overall natural resource management competence. The second level that this course operates on addresses culturally appropriate process design. The participants in this course will come from many different countries with many different political systems. It is not possible to teach them a universal approach to conflict management that will be equally successful in all of the countries in which they may be employed. The second major focus of the course is therefore to develop in the students the awareness of political culture and the ways in which that context must inform their efforts to design processes that can integrate complex scientific issues and sensitive social values is a way that leads to innovative outcomes in natural resource decision making. The course uses concrete cases from natural resource management in Euro-American as well as developing countries contexts. Through exercises and project work the students can try various tools and approaches to conflict assessment and development of management strategies. A series of broad principles will be a focal point of the course, but the students' core learning task will be to apply those principles in a flexible and integrative fashion to a case of their choosing. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| The course is composed of alternating lectures, exercises, and discussions. The lectures give overview of theory/principles, examples of application in practice and make connections between different parts of conflict management. Exercises are made as well as written course assignments where theory and experiences are translated into practical analysis and advice. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course intends to develop the students personal conflict management and facilitation skills. A specific focus will be held on environmental conflict - as found in various cultural and socio-political contexts around the World. The students will learn how to assess such environmental conflict situations. Based on the assesment students will learn how to make strategies and design culturally sensitive processes for decision making and public involvement. After completing the course, the students should be able to: Knowledge Be aware of their own personal communication and conflict style, and recognize the ways that their style can impact their professional effectiveness (this extends the discussion of personal communication effectiveness begun in 400023 Conflict Management.) Recognize the behavioural incentives that embedded in different public decision process designs. Skills Examine the political psychology of different nations/cultures and recognize its impact on process design. Competence Able to design comprehensive public processes that can address contentious environmental problems in the specific legal and cultural contexts in which they arise (typically the student's country of origin.) The high degree of cultural sensitivity woven into this course also provides a foundation for students whose career interests are leading them toward international projects. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||||
| Deutsch. M and P.T. Coleman 2000 The handbook of conflict resolution: theory and practice Daniels, S.E. and Walkers, G.B., 2001: Working through environmental conflic: The collaborative learning approach Fisher, R., Ury, W. and Patton, B. 1997. Getting to yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in Course material: Conflict management selected reading 2008. Deutsch and Coleman is an anthology of theory and research on emerging topics in the field of conflict management. While it contains cutting edge theory, it lacks the integrative framework needed to serve as a sole text. The Daniels and Walker (2001) and Fisher et al (2003) texts are required in 400023. They continue to be used in this Advanced Course--but more in a supporting role--and all students are expected to have a working knowledge of them. Selected scientific articles and book chapters are used to extend certain theoretical points a: | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||
| Steven E. Daniels, steve.daniels@usu.edu, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 3528 Jens Emborg, jee@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Forestry, Phone: 35331744 | |||||||||||||||||||
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