INCM 9610 - Culture, Ethics, & Leadership in International Conflict Management

1 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 1 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the Ph.D. program.
This course will focus on the interrelated aspects of culture, ethics, and leadership in international conflict management. Culture generally refers to the learned beliefs, values, rules, symbols, and traditions common to a group of people, the shared qualities that make them distinct. Ethics, on the other hand, is universal, based on a usually inborn empathy and sense of fairness, and is concerned with enabling individuals to flourish, to fully realize their capabilities. Leadership in this context refers to practices of managing conflict in some mutually advantageous (“win-win”) way and doing this in an exemplary way, modeling a way that two different groups can each flourish as a result of trusted leadership.