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International Affairs


INAF U4420y Oil, Rights and Development 1 pt. This multi-layered role-playing simulation, based on a fictitious country, allows exploration of the challenges associated with initiation of a major industrial venture in a developing country as regards any or all of the following: macro-economic and political factors; identification of priorities; environmental management; complications arising from ethnic and religious conflicts; health management (including HIV/AIDS); community development aspects; reconciliation of the interests of a wide variety of stakeholders; media management; achievement of the largest possible Circle of Consensus. The simulation is conducted over two consecutive days and some 50 to 80 participants role-play up to twenty separate entities, including an international industrial company and its competitor, government factions, opposition groups, a local community and wide varieties of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and of media. As in real life, some more general knowledge of the situation is available to all entities, but each one has sole access to information (which may overlap with that of others) which is unique to its own perspective. The emphasis is therefore on sharing and on cooperation to make progress against tight deadlines, on managing information of various degrees of reliability and of balancing conflicting demands. There is no "single right answer" but through the process participants have an opportunity to explore the interplay of a very wide range of factors and develop strategies which are based on a holistic appreciation of the problems involved and on creation of alliances which are by no means obvious at the beginning of the simulation. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: Human Rights.

INAF U4759y Human Rights Practicum 1 pt. The Human Rights Practicum is a forum where human rights practitioners and academics share with students their professional experiences and insights on the modern development of international human rights law, policy and practice. It plays an important role in the Human Rights Concentration as a means by which students are able to examine current trends in the human rights field and remain informed about the different roles that human rights actors play in a variety of contexts. The Practicum is designed, therefore, to enhance students' abilities to think critically and analytically about current problems and challenges confronting the field, and to do so in the context of a vibrant community of their peers. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs.

INAF U6041y Corporate Social Responsibility: A Human Rights Approach 3 pts. This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to learn about the growing importance of human rights and their impact in the world today. Through an in-depth examination of the field of business and human rights students will gain an understanding of the existing and emerging international human rights framework relevant to business, learn ways in which business and human rights intersect, and be exposed to the range of methods and tactics being employed by human rights advocates and businesses to address their human rights impacts. By the end of the course, the student will have a firm grasp of the current business and human rights debates, and be able to critically evaluate the efficacy of applying human rights standards to corporations and the effect of corporate practices on human rights. Classroom discussion will include a review of trends in human rights; the development of human rights principles or standards relevant to corporations; human rights issues facing business operations abroad; the growing public demand for greater accountability; strategies of civil society advocacy around business and human rights; collaborative efforts between business and non-profit organizations; and other issues managers must deal with. Through guest lectures, students will have the opportunity to engage first hand with business managers and advocacy professionals dealing with these issues. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights.

INAF U6151y Human Rights and Children 1.5 pts.

This course is designed to introduce international law and standards on children's rights, analyze the ways in which they have been implemented (or ignored), and consider ways in which these rights can be achieved. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the leading international treaty on children's rights, has been in effect for twenty years and sets forth states' obligations to enforce these rights. The course will focus on five substantive areas: children and armed conflict, including the use of children as soldiers and attacks on education; worst forms of child labor, including child trafficking; juvenile justice; right to health; and migrant children. Class discussions will include how to identify violations of children's rights, how to form a strategy to eliminate or ameliorate them, how to raise national and international consciousness of these abuses, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies and advocacy undertaken. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6406x International Response to Landmine Challenge 1.5 pts. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction effectively seeks to permanently eliminate landmines. The origins, negotiation, and implementation of this December 1997 international agreement forms the substantive core of this course. The course will continue by examining the operationalization of the Convention. What programs have been implemented and which have proved to be successful? What is the geographic scope of the humanitarian threat posed by landmines in October 2004? What roles are states, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations playing? As a practical example of global humanitarian intervention by the international community, what challenges remain and how best can they be tackled? Finally, how "successful" has the Ottawa Convention been? COURSE START DATE 10/28/11; COURSE END DATE 10/29/11SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6490y International Humanitarian Law 1 pt. The overall aim of the course is to help students to understand the system of international humanitarian law and to obtain the professional skills and insight to use that knowledge in the context of complex humanitarian operations. Upon completing the course, students should understand the historical development and system of international law applicable in armed conflict situations, be familiar with the basic principles of international humanitarian law applicable to all armed conflicts including the basic rights of those who support victims in wars and conflicts, be able to analyze specifically the law guiding humanitarian operations, understand the rapid development of the law in responding to changes in warfare strategies in tactics and understand basic responses to serious violations of the law. Course dates: April 13th & 14th, 2012SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Short Courses.

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FSa 9:00a - 5:00p
1401 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

H. Fischer

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INAF U6495y Politics & Practice of Humanitarian Assistance in the new Millenium 1.5 pts. Humanitarian agencies became major players in the intra-state conflicts that characterized the 1990s. However, this prominence also led to critical examination, both from within and outside these agencies. The dilemmas of field workers led to new questions: How can the challenges presented by the fragmentation of state authority be addressed? Is there a way to link relief to development? Is there a relationship between humanitarian assistance and conflict resolution/peace-building activities? How can relief agencies manage their relations with the parties to a conflict? How do human rights and humanitarian aid intersect? The experience of the 1990s has made it clear to humanitarian agencies that technical skills were no longer sufficient - their staff also needed political and analytical skills to navigate in insecure environments. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs.

INAF U6497y Humanitarian Crisis-East Congo 1 pt. The overall aim of the course is to help students to understand the situation in Eastern Congo and how humanitarian organizations intervene. Upon completing this course students should: 1. Understand the historical development and current status of the conflict in Eastern Congo. 2. Be familiar with the basic operations, dilemmas, as well as achievements and shortcomings of several humanitarian NGOs active in Eastern Congo. 3. Understand the breakdown of state or better administrative institutions, in particular the education and health systems. Course dates: March 30 & 31, 2012SIPA: Africa. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Short Courses.

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F 1:00p - 5:00p
1401 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG
Sa 10:00a - 2:00p
1401 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

D. Dijkzeul

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INAF U6561y Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Development 1.5 pts.Not offered in 2011-2012. Course objectives are to to become acquainted with conflict environments and the broad range of actors and approaches, notably within the UN, involved in promoting development in crisis and post-conflict situations; To engage the students in the policy and programme elements of a development-oriented response to conflict and post-conflict and to introduce them to the research and policy development and programming methods of the United Nations or other international organisations; to introduce students to what it feels like to work with these issues daily, within the UN or other work environments, and to guide them through the complexities of the ogranisations' policy-setting and decision-making arrangements; to become familiar with the case studies, and through this, develop practical understanding of the issues and the tools available to the international community. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Short Courses.

INAF U6751x and y International Human Rights Law: Politics and Relevance 3 pts. This course introduces students to international human rights law (IHRL). In what sense are internationally-defined human rights "rights" and in what sense can the instruments which define them be considered "law"? How do we know that a claim is actually a "human right"? What are the relations among international, regional and national institutions in establishing and enforcing (or not) IHRL? Does IHRL represent an encroachment on national sovereignty? Is the future of IHRL regional? What enforcement mechanisms can we use, and who can decide upon their use? Finally, what redress is there for human rights violations, and how effective is it? In this class, we will learn the law, but we will also explore tools for assessing when, where and how law matters. Developments in human rights and the environment, gender analysis, inter-sections between human rights and humanitarian action and corporate accountability will be explored. The current specific question of the US and its place in and under international human rights law will also be considered SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights.

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6751

94272
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W 4:10p - 6:00p
409 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

B. Apple

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INAF
6751

12447
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M 1:00p - 2:00p
418 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG
W 10:00a - 10:50a
201A PHILOSOPHY HALL

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INAF U6760y Managing Risk in Natural and other Disasters 3 pts. Natural and technological disasters occur when natural and technological processes inflict harm on a vulnerable society during extreme events. Natural disasters include draughts, floods, storms, landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other natural processes. They are normal, albeit extreme events of the Earth's dynamics. Technological disasters are caused by "normal" failures of technical systems. "Normal" is used here in the sense that generally the occurrence rates and magnitudes of failures and related events can be statistically quantified in advance but are highly uncertain (and sometimes actuarially impractical, e.g. for terrorist attacks). The natural and man-made events become disasters only when they affect exposed vulnerable societies. Vulnerability, or lack of resilience, can be caused by many factors such as concentration of population and assets when placed in harms way. Vulnerability differs fundamentally between more developed countries (MDCs) and less developed countries (LDCs). In LDCs, vulnerability is often associated with poverty, inequity, lack of information, or greed that may place people or entire populations into harm's predictable way. Public and private institutions may lack the political capacity, the will, or the resources to build sufficient disaster resilience by persistent assessment, planning and sustained risk mitigating actions. Are disasters the result of an unresolved dichotomy between long-term persistence of natural and cultural processes, vs. the short-term horizon of political perceptions and decisions? Are disasters scientifically "predictable"? How do urbanization and industrialization increase human vulnerability to natural and technological hazards or even create new hazards? How do the effects of disasters differ in less vs. more developed countries? How can the risks be managed? We assess science, technical, policy and humanitarian needs and opportunities for pre-event mitigation and preparedness and post-event relief and recovery. We explore the role of global economic development to the rapidly increasing risk exposure. Some of this development is unsustainable. Some development is promoted via loans to developing countries for large infrastructure projects. Many of these projects are not properly assessed for the existing hazards to which they will be exposed, or for the new risks they generate. How can external disaster relief best serve indigenous needs and help to build the locally needed resilience and coping capacity? Under what conditions can disaster mitigation become a local and global cultural value with equitable burdens and effects? Can disasters be managed without first solving all other societal ills? Can science and engineering make a unique contribution to reduce risk exposure and directly build local capacity and disaster resilience, without having to submit to sometimes oppressive or uncivil political norms? Students are challenged to find their own answers to some of these questions based on introductory information provided, and their own research and reasoning. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: E&E- Environment Policy. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs.

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17148
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MW 11:00a - 12:50p
409 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

K. Jacob

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INAF U6802y International Law 3 pts. This course introduces students to the basic doctrines of public international law and considers their relationship to both international relations theory and a range of problems in current international politics. The aim of the course is to provide a framework to understand the normative dimensions of international relations. Students are asked to consider the theoretical arguments, processes and frameworks that provide the structure of international law, and to analyze their practical application to world issues of current concern. A problem-oriented approach to various case studies will be used in both lectures and discussion sessions, including situations in the former Yugoslavia, East Timor, Africa and Iraq. In this way, the course attempts to integrate method, substance, concepts and domestic application of the international legal system. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP.

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6802

27751
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Tu 2:10p - 4:00p
405 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

Y. Ergas

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INAF
6802

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W 6:10p - 8:00p
407 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG
Th 1:00p - 2:00p
405 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

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INAF U6807y International Conflict Resolution: Theories & Methods 3 pts. Aims to expose students of international conflict resolution to the different theories and approaches within the field. Provides a basic framework for considering the evolving field of international conflict resolution, while encouraging students to engage in their own exploration of the issues involved in resolving deadly international conflicts. Many of the prominent practitioners, scholars, and researchers in the field make presentations on their work to the class. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U8094y Labor Rights in a Global Economy 3 pts. The present period is marked by increasing cross-border flows of goods, services, and capital; transformations in corporate organization; transitions in political regimes and social systems; and new patterns of labor migration and trafficking. These changes raise many pressing questions about the regulation of workplaces and labor markets from the local to the global levels. Major themes in the seminar include: Which regions and social groups are the winners and losers in the global economy? What is the relationship between labor rights and economic development? Can we design regulatory institutions to enhance democracy, equality, and compliance with labor rights at the domestic, regional and international levels? What is the relationship between public and private enforcement of labor rights and standards? Topics include: comparative models of labor law in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia; core international labor rights; linkage of labor rights with trading systems; enforcement of cross-border labor rights by U.S. courts and executive officials; multinational corporations and codes of conduct; the "living wage" movement; transnational union organizing; cross-border networks of labor migration and trafficking; and household labor and the informal sector.

SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track.

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27208
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Tu 4:10p - 6:00p
502 GREEN HALL LAW BUILDING

D. Warren

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INAF U8178y Rethinking Human Rights 3 pts. The course is aimed at graduate students in all Columbia schools and programs who have substantial expertise or experience in human rights. It seeks to discuss problematic, troubling, or controversial topics within human rights theory, discourse and practice, as a way of forging new understandings, new ideas, and new practices. The course is built around discussion of selected writings that bring to the surface contested and controversial issues. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights.

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INAF
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79698
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M 2:10p - 4:00p
902 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

E. Barkan

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INAF U8370y Labor in the Age of Globalization 3 pts.Not offered in 2011-2012. This course analyzes the challenges for labor facing increasing capital mobility, including the challenges of political and economic liberalization, increasing diversity of the workforce, labor mobility across borders, and the weakening of traditional strategies of labor organization and methods of labor regulation. The course focuses on labor politics attempting to address these new challenges, bringing together inter-disciplinary theories and empirical research comparing the experience of advanced democracies (especially the US) and developing countries. The theories are applied to understand labor responses to current processes of economic liberalization, expansion of the informal sector, changes in the workforce-including both its diversity and diverse national origin and citizen status, as well as the transformation of institutions (local, national and global) regulating work. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: Human Rights.

INAF U8538y The Prevention of Genocide And Mass Killings: Understanding Political Violence 3 pts. This course is an attempt to sharpen the understanding of genocide as a phenomenon through the analysis of four cases: Metz Yegh?rn (Armenian genocide), Shoa (Holocaust), Cambodia (Khmer Rouge), and Itsembamboa (Rwanda). While different in many aspects, these phenomena offer an extraordinary opportunity to analyze systematically the cause and interactions that made genocides possible during the last century. Unfortunately, genocidal trends are increasing and the very possibility of genocide is upon us all. In order to identify relevant insights from the four cases the students will be invited to analyze the cases through five main areas of inquiry: Politics; Military Affairs; Diplomacy; Intelligence; Media. The course will have a constant reference to current trends and the necessity to effectively use early warnings systems to generate proper responses. SIPA: Africa. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U8556y Preventive Diplomacy/Conflict Resolution:UN 3 pts. Instructor Permission Required From Conflict Peavention to Peacebuilding is an initiative of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) developed in collaboration with the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations. The objective of the course is to explore theories of conflict, conflict prevention and post-conflict peacebuilding with the practice of the United Nations and thereby provide an opportunity for students and practitioners to reflect on their experience and enhance their understanding of this field. The intended result is to equip the learners with the necessary analytic tools and practical perspectives to enhance peacework in the types of situations the international community is likely to face in the coming decade.

The events of the last couple of years, including the experience of terrorism on US soil, the bombing campaign, war and regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the war on terrorism has radically altered the prevention and peacebuilding landscape and the priorities of national governments and international organizations. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: UN Studies.

INAF U8690y Managing Humanitarian Emergencies This course focuses on the actual management problems of humanitarian interventions and helps students obtain the professional skills and insight needed to work in complex humanitarian emergencies, and to provide oversight and guidance to humanitarian operations from a policy perspective. It is a follow-up to the fall course that studied the broader context, root causes, actors, policy issues, and debates in humanitarian emergencies. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Management.

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M 9:00a - 10:50a
407 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

G. Dunn

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INAF U8738y Peacemaking/Peacekeeping 3 pts. The course will explore the major conceptual and operational transitions which have occurred in the character and responsibilities of UN Peacekeeping over the past 16 years. United Nations Peace Operations have evolved significantly since the end of the Cold War. In 2006 over 90,000 peacekeepers were deployed in 16 missions mostly in Africa and the Middle East. The UN Summit of world leaders in December 2005 adopted the concept of The Responsibility to Protect - a new global norm placing human rights over traditional concepts of sovereignty. Yet the humanitarian and political crisis in Darfur underscores the profound gap between principle and implementation. The Summit also established the UN Peacebuilding Commission reflecting a growing awareness that rebuilding collapsed states will require significant civilian as well as military engagement over a longer timeframe than heretofore envisaged for UN operations. There is also a new willingness to work in partnership with regional organizations. We will conclude the course by assessing the capacity and political will of UN member states to meet these challenges as well as to develop a strengthened response to the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea and the threat of international terrorism. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Intl Org. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Middle East. SIPA: ICR. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: UN Studies.

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11848
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Tu 11:00a - 12:50p
901 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

J. Hirsch

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INAF U8785y Gender, Politics, and Development 3 pts. This course explores the multiple constructions of gender in development and political discourse, and how these constructions in state policy. The emphasis in the readings and discussion will be on understanding how differentiated gender roles inform international politics of development, through economic and political strategy, institutional structure, civil society and state-based institutions. We will interrogate feminisms and their sociocultural contexts, and examine various forms of development theory, institutions, economic segments, and case studies. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Gender Policy.

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17498
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M 2:10p - 4:00p
1401 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

E. McGill
M. Weisgrau

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INAF U8885y Conflict Assessment 3 pts. Instructor Permission Required International actors often apply different methodologies to assess conflicts. These methodologies help them determine the best ways to address a conflict and maximize their opportunities to prevent or alleviate crises. This course examines how international actors including the World Bank, UN agencies, bilateral donors and NGOs, analyze conflict and the interaction between conflict dynamics and their own engagement in a given country or region. The class will explore how analytical frameworks can be used to assess the impact of development, humanitarian and peacebuilding programs on existing conflict factors and dynamics. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the concept of conflict assessment, its development and implementation; exploring different approaches to conflict assessment, including an examination of different implicit assumptions and theories of conflict. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ICR.

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Tu 6:10p - 8:00p
901 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

F. Mancini

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REGN


REGN U6149y Energy, Corporate Responsibility & Human Rights 3 pts. This course will focus on energy companies' practices, and their impact. These practices will be examined in part through the prism of Central and Eastern Europe with particular focus on the land of the Rose Revolution, Georgia, through which the strategic multi-billion dollar oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan to Turkey and the West are to be constructed. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: E&E- IEMP. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Russia.

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TuTh 4:10p - 5:25p
901 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BLDG

J. Radon

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REGN U8177y Human Rights in Post-Communist Eurasia 3 pts.Not offered in 2011-2012. This course should contribute to the understanding of continuity & change in the region as regards human rights and influences on their fulfillment. Why, for instance, does democracy fade as surveys shift farther east? While authoritarian violations of human rights surge in partly free "managed" or "electoral" democracies;" & outright dictatorships, the most repressive being in Central Asia? SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Russia.


Sustainable Development


SDEV U6235y Climate Change, Development, and Human Rights 3 pts. The fundamental behavior of the Earth's climate system is now very well understood including, in a first order way, the spatial and temporal scales of natural variability that occur, from the rhythmic change of seasons to irregular El Nino cycles, longer period changes and the distribution and frequency of extreme events like cyclones. From this basis it is possible to predict what form of human activity can cause perturbations to the climate system in terms of climate zone spatial distribution and variability, including extremes. Where there is little or no consensus is in the consequences for human development and human rights that climate changes will bring about. Throughout the world the outcomes of climate change will be very uneven with some no doubt benefiting and others suffering, even in the same regions. The potential for vast global inequities in direct and indirect effects (resulting from mitigation and adaptation programs) of global climate change appears very real. The course will explore the critical nexus between climate change, economic and political development and human rights. SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: EPD. SIPA: E&E- Environment Policy. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: E&E- Energy Policy.


SIPA


SIPA U0010x and y (Section 5) Concentration: Human Rights All SIPA candidates are required to register for one of the policy concentrations in each semester of matriculation at SIPA. The concentration registration will be for zero academic credits and will not affect or be affected by fees or financial charges. SIPA: Human Rights.

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E. Barkan

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Population and Family Health


POPF P8620y Protection of Children in Disaster & War 1.5 pts.

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.

For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: Electives.

POPF P8642y Program Evaluation in Humanitarian Settings 1.5 pts.

SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: Electives.

POPF P8673y Refugee Reproductive Health 1.5 pts. This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.

For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses SIPA: EPD. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Gender Policy. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: Electives.

POPF P8679y Investigative Methods in Complex Emergencies 3 pts.

This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.

For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: Electives.

POPF P8683y Psychosocial and Mental Health Issues in Forced Migration 1.5 pts. This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street.

For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: Electives.

POPF P9630y Applying Ethical and Human Rights Practice in Public Health 1-2 pts.

SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Humanitarian Affairs. SIPA: Electives.

Sociomedial Sciences


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SOSC P9719y Critical Perspectives on Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health 3 pts. This course prepares students to engage in theoretically-grounded research on contemporary issues in health, particularly reproductive and sexual health. We examine contemporary social science approaches to the analysis of gender, exploring their relevance to the development of researchable hypotheses on a range of topical issues. Through readings in social theory and ethnography, students will master key concepts and ideas, including structure and agency, gender stratification, social constructionist approaches, and bargaining theory. Students will critically employ these concepts both in the analysis of existing research work in areas such as fertility, HIV and STIs, and other topics and in the development of a critical literature review on a topic of their own selection. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.


Law


LAW L6269x or y International Law 4 pts.

This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6271x or y Law and Legal Institutions in China 3 pts.Not offered in 2011-2012.

This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

SIPA: East Asian. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6276x or y Human Rights 3 pts.Not offered in 2011-2012.

This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L6521y Disability Law 4 pts. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8006y Domestic Violence & the Law 2 pts.

This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Gender Policy. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8816y Transnational Business & Human Rights 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: IFEP- Finance. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L8997y Civil Liberties & the Response to Terrorism 2 pts.

This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9060y Immigration Law & Policy 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search

SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9153y Topics in Law & Sexuality 3 pts. This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Gender Policy. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9164y S. Labor Rights in a Global Economy 3 pts. This is a Law School course.

For more detailed course information, please go to the Law School Curriculum Guide at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/courses/search SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9183y Nuremberg Trials & War Crimes Law 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9192y Welfare Law: Legal Issues & Policy Choices 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9219y Critical Race Theory 3 pts. This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9220y Race & Poverty Law 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: United States. SIPA: USP- Urban Policy Track. SIPA: USP- Social Policy Track. SIPA: Electives.

LAW L9377y Enforcing International Law 2 pts. This is a Law School course.

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SIPA: MIA- Interstate Relations. SIPA: Human Rights. SIPA: ISP. SIPA: UN Studies. SIPA: Electives.
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