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PAX 635 Global Challenges, Local Struggles, and Transnational Solidarities (3 SH)
This course focuses will focus on social and global processes of transformation by exploring global challenges, local experiences and expressionsstruggles, and transnational solidarities that emerge in response to these those challenges. It will be concerned with institutions, relations of power, and the relationship between power and the production of justice and peacebuilding theories and practices. It will pick up where Foundations 1 left off, aiming to add to students’ comprehensive overview of justice and peacebuilding practice and its multi-disciplinary, multi-level aspects.
Whereas Foundations 1 centered on personal, interpersonal, small group and organizational transformation analysis, theory and practice, this course will equip students to further develop their knowledge and skills for dealing with conflict and situations of injustice and building sustainable peace. Particular focus will be given to social, state, and political change with increased sensitivity to race, gender, ecology, and other political economy traditions. Particular attention will be given to the colonial legacies and decolonial possibilities in justice and peacebuilding, exploring decoloniality as both an epistemic and a political project.
Action and struggle for justice and peacebuilding are always found in peoples’ local, place-based experiences, but to gain understanding in order to effect change, we have to explore their global features. To do this we will examine the intersections and overlaps among the local and the global, including the transnational solidarities that connect local struggles around the world. Students will become familiar with theories and frameworks that help explain the causes and dynamics of larger-scale conflicts, injustice, and structural violence. Students will work individually and in small groups to apply these ideas and skills to cases that progress in complexity from the community to the national and global levels (and back again). Students will also continue to develop their self-awareness as well as their capacity for professional judgment and reflective practice with attention to vocation, values, ethics, faith and spirituality.
This course is required for all MACT and MARJ students.
Please note: for the 2021-22 year academic year, PAX 635 plus a 3 credit hour course from an approved list will satisfy the PAX 634 Foundations 2 requirement.
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PAX 640 STAR Level 2 (2-3 SH)
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PAX 687 Gender & Caste (3 SH)
Caste is an ancient concept that has taken newer forms. In today’s context, it has transformed itself into something dehumanizing. Gender is another aspect of our lives that determines our social order. Being on the lower rung of caste and gender leaves one most vulnerable. This course will look at the intersection of gender and caste and its implications. This course will be offered spring 2022.Gender being a social construct plays a pivotal role in determining and maintaining social order. Though the fluidity of gender roles is increasing the core expectations of society continue to promote a rigid social infrastructure that not only promotes but also protects gender based discriminatory practices.
Caste is an ancient concept of social stratification. It adapts to different concepts and manifest itself in newer forms. The core principles and practices of this system is deeply entrenched in society and dominates popular discourse. In practice, it has found ways and means to justify itself and stay relevant. Its attachment to the politics of identity and domination have been causes for concern over generations. In today’s context it continues to transform itself to promote and continue its dehumanizing practices.
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PAX 688 Justice, Peace and the Biblical Story (3 SH)
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