Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3211: Nonviolence: Power and Politics

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

Nonviolence: The Historical Overview of a rising Concept
What is nonviolence? From conceptual monolith to dimensions (defining peace, violence, and nonviolence)
Nonviolence: Civil Disobedience, Passive Resistance, and No Resistance
Nonviolence and Power: Personal or People Power?
Is civil disobedience legitimate?
Overthrowing Dictators with Nonviolence
Nonviolence as Tool to ‘Democratize Democracy’
Nonviolence in the institutions: political parties and policy change
Nonviolence as defence and Anti-Terrorism
Can nonviolence work in global politics? Evidence from the European Union (Is the EU a credible normative power committed to nonviolence? From the Ventotene Manifesto to the EP resolution on human rights)

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
24	126

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled learning and teaching activities	12	Lectures will provide key themes
Scheduled learning and teaching activities	12	Seminars will involve group discussion
Guided independent study	46	Reading and preparation for seminar discussion
Guided independent study	80	Research and writing of essay, learning log

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/

http://www.aeinstein.org/

www.unpo.org

http://wagingnonviolence.org/

www.npwj.org/

www.justvision.org/encounterpoint

http://www.brad.ac.uk/library/special/cwlMR.php