Available Courses
Course No: PCS 701
Course Title: Concepts
and Methods in Peace & Conflict
Studies
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Compulsory for all students
Description: This course will introduce students to the key concepts and debates in the study of peace and
conflict. It will also examine key peace traditions.
Course No: PCS 702
Course Title: Principles of Conflict Management
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Compulsory for all students
Description: Overview of the major techniques of conflict management and resolution relevant to ethnic,
religious and political conflicts; the effectiveness of these techniques. Particular attention is
devoted to the role of third parties in conflict resolution. Consideration is also given to the
concept of peace-building and the practical work of local mediation and facilitating political
discussion.
Course No: PCS 703
Course Title: African Approaches to Conflict Management
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Compulsory for all students
Description: The course will examine different traditional methods of handling conflicts in Africa with a
view to identifying how they are different to or similar to western approaches.
Course No: PCS 704
Course Title: Problems of Peacemaking and Peacekeeping
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Compulsory for all students
Description: The course will focus on the problems militating against peacemaking and peacekeeping
initiatives around the world. This is with a view to identifying better strategies for managing
African conflicts. Great emphasis shall be placed on the roles of the UN, ECOWAS and
NGOs.
Course No: PCS 705
Course Title: The Global Refugee Regime
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 01
Description: This course seeks to undertake a detailed analysis of the causes, patterns, nature, texture and
consequences of the Refugees regime in our global village. Focus will be on the end of the
cold war and the negative consequences of the re-drawing of national, ethnic and cultural
boundaries, political, social, cultural and international factors that encourage the growing
phenomenon of the refugee regime in contemporary times, the status of women and
children (as the most vulnerable groups within this context); response of the international
community, in particular western powers, to refuge situations. Case studies.
Course No: PCS 706
Course Title: War Crimes and War Guilt
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 01 and 02
Description: This course is intended to expose students to the various international modalities for the
detection of war crimes and war guilt. The overall aim is to examine the state of the art,
in terms of mechanisms and strategies being developed by UN et. al. to unmask war crimes
and apportion guilt; the phenomenon of child (including female) soldiering and its use as a
defensive shield, patterns and trends and consequences for future war fares and warring
factions and/or groups. Case studies.
Course No: PCS 707
Course Title: Disarming Ethnic Guerillas in Post Conflict States
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 01 and 02
Description: This course is intended to introduce students to modalities for disarming ethnic guerillas and
warring militias as well as mechanism for peacekeeping and peace-enforcement; origins,
funding, patterns of support etc. of ethnic guerillas and implications for the process of
disarming in terms of the nature, character, status of the bodies empowered to disarm and/or
supervise the process of disarming; Confidence legitimacy and coalition-building and the
nature of post-conflicts politics.
Course No: PCS 708
Course Title: Ethnic Violence and Conflict Resolution
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 02
Description: Ethical and Philosophical issues in obedience, peaceful coexistence, rebellion and ethnic-
driven violence; pattern of resource allocation/distribution; character of power-sharing;
theories of political violence; behavioural approaches, the contributions of Marxism and
imperialism; the organisation, objectives, motivations and actions of ethnic and other
groups involved in low-intensity operations; modalities, patterns and processes of conflict
resolution; the varying contents of conflict, bargaining, negotiations and resolution; conditions
for minimising insurgency and counter-insurgency. Case studies.
Course No: PCS 709
Course Title: Inter-Religious Conflicts in Nigeria
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 02
Description: This course will critically examine a number of issues in Christian-Muslim relations: the
Shariah controversy in Nigeria. Nigeria's membership of the O.I.C. and similar organisations.
It will also study the religious and political undertones of the riots in Kano, Kafanchan, Bauchi,
Zango Kataf; the reaction of Muslims and Christians to some government policies, the Biblical
and Qur'anic principles guiding relations with people from other faiths.
Course No: PCS 710
Course Title: Case Studies in Environmental Conflicts
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 04
Description: The problems relating to the use of space within the urban and rural settings. Environmental
Sanitation, noise pollution, nomadic Fulani vs. Farmers' conflicts, oil spillage, dumping of
industrial waste etc.
Course No: PCS 711
Course Title: Advanced Seminars in Conflict Bargaining in International Relations
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 01
Description: Theories of conflicts, including Marxist, psycho-analytic and functionalist theories; games
theory and bargaining; nuclear strategy and the balance of power and terror in international
relations, conflict resolution among African, European and American states. Case Studies.
Course No: PCS 712
Course Title: Conflict of Laws
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 02
Description: Nature and scope of conflict of laws, internal and international conflicts, application of
customary law rules in Nigeria; general principles of conflict of laws ( I ) Jurisdiction and
exemption from jurisdiction from the courts, (ii) exclusion of foreign law/State laws; (iii)
domicile and nationality. Choice of law problems in marriage and matrimonial causes,
Succession, contracts, torts; recognition and enforcement of foreign/State jurisdictions. The
need for a uniform legal system. Law of war.
Course No: PCS 713
Course Title: Introduction to the French Language - Speech and Conversation
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Compulsory for all students
Description: To initiate students of Peace and Conflict Studies in French Language and Structure with a
view to undueing the students' vocabulary in politics, culture, religion, the occupations etc in a
wide and global sense.
Course No: PCS 714
CourseTitle: Language and Communication in Peace and Conflict Resolution
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for all students
Description: Language in the thinking processes and thought expression; uses and abuses of language as a
means of communication in different socio-linguistic contexts; the Sapir-Whorfian hypothesis
of the influence of language on the perception of reality; linguistic dimensions of ethnicity and
feature of powerplay between majority and minority language speakers; issues in identity,
security and insecurity; language in legal arbitration and the administration of justice of
conflicts within case studies of ethnolinguistic conflicts and resolutions of language planning
frameworks as in the former Soviet Union, India, South Africa, Switzerland etc.
Course No: PCS 715
Course Title: Independent Research Project
Unit No: 6 Units
Status: Compulsory for all students
Description: This is a programme of individual research bearing in the student's field of specialism.
The focus of the work must be on generating new ideas on the resolution of African Conflicts.
Course No: MSS 701
Course Title: Theories of War and Peace
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 01 an 02
Description: Contending theories of war and peace focussing on the psychological cum anthropological
nature and behaviour of man, internal organisation of State qua State, and the anarchy of
interstate relations.
Course No: MSS 713
Course Title: Laws of Armed Conflicts
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 01 and 02
Description: Principles and problems of the laws of armed conflicts and of the humanitarian of war: relevant
international instruments e.g. Hague relations, Geneva Conventions and the Protocols.
Additional to them, the UN Charter etc, Status of Civilians, POW, journalists, spies,
combatants before, during and after the conflict or hostility; role of international organisations, treaties and the ending of war.
Course No: SOC 703
Course Title: Law and Social Change
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Elective
Description: An intensive examination of the relationship between the legal system and other institutions in
the society with particular attention to the Socio-historical development of various societies.
Factors accounting for the breakdown of the traditional legal system.
Course No: SOC 724
Course Title: Sociology of Deviant Behaviour
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Elective
Description: Survey of theories of deviant behaviour with special emphasis on cross-cultural studies.
Attempt is made to evaluate extant theories of deviance in the light of empirical data on
deviance from industrialised and non-industrialised or emergent societies.
Course No: MLR 706
Course Title: Collective Bargaining and Corporate Strategies
Unit No: 2 Units
Status: Required for FS 03
Description: Demand for Unionisation; structure of Nigerian Trade Unions; trade union wage politics;
Bargaining theories ; the economics of industrial action; indigionisation and mulit-national
companies; employers organisations, the state and economic planning; theories of
employment; inflation and wage bargain.
Course No: ADE 884
Course Title: Industrial Conflict and Resolution of Conflict
Unit No: 2 Units
Status: Required for FS 03
Description: Industrial conflict, nature and patterns of conflict, conflict in industry: Causes and
consequences, management of conflicts. Role of labour and management in conflict
management; statutory conflict procedure; strike and public policy.
Course No: HIS 712
Course Title: Nigeria: Problems of Building a Nation
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 02
Description: This course is designed to examine the problems of nation building in Nigeria since 1914.
These problems, which include multi-nationalities, differing languages and culture, unequal
economic, social, education developments, the nature and organisation of party politics and
so on are to be studies within their historical context such that while focussing on the problems
students will also deepen their genuine knowledge of this period in Nigerian History.
Course No: MPP 703
Course Title: Psychology of Conflict Management in Industries and Organisation
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 03
Description: Organisation and its environment. Formal and informal organisation structures. Conflict and
reaction to conflict in organisation. Principles of intervention in organisation. Strategies and
adjustment to organisational change.
Course No: MPP 704
Course Title: Psychological Principles in Bargaining and Negotiation
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 03
Description: Psychological principles of bargaining. Dynamics of bargaining, union-management
relationships; elements of worker participation.
Course No: MPP 716
Course Title: Environmental Psychology
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 04
Description: Psychological analyses of noise, heat and air pollution. Psychological effect of industrial
waste on the environment. Human behaviour on the environment.
Course No: PSY 782
Course Title: Social Conflict and Social Change
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 02
Description: Strategies for producing, and consequences of change. Topics could include: effects of change
on the individual, the collection and use of data as strategies for the production of change;
socio-technical intervention strategies (e.g. Ajaokuta, etc) conflict as a change strategy.
Course No: GEO 715
Course Title: Land Resources Analysis
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 04
Description: Economic Analysis of existing natural resources complexes in different regions: the
classification of land types and assessment of their development potentials, river basin
planning, water resources development; perceptions of the natural environment
Course No: LAC 718
Course Title: Cross-cultural Communication
Unit No: 3 Units
Status: Required for FS 02 and 04
Description: This course is designed to provide an insight into cultural contrasts and cultural universals as
manifested in communication. It utilises different models all of which project time and space
as exhibitors of cultural difference and similarities. In essence, the course is concerned with
observation and analysis of what happens to given cultural variables as we move from one
culture to the other, and as exponents of different cultures interact.
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