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Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (29.09.2020)
Tomáš Karásek (tomas.karasek@fsv.cuni.cz), office hours: Thursday 11:00-13:00, online (meet.google.com/oty-imtb-eou; to register for a specific hour, please go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JdduY0BzfW22QubuHYBMNzW_BQzzwhe3c302QTHwHrE/edit#gid=0) - - - In summer semester, the course is taught by Dr Tomáš Kučera - please check the details in Moodle at http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4002. Course description for winter: The course aims at introducing main concepts related to security and armed conflicts. The opening two lectures present important milestones in the development of the conceptualization of security, and outline basic theoretical perspectives on the role of conflict in politics and social relations. The following two lectures focus on important topics of security studies: the functioning of security systems and the issue of security threats. The rest of the course tackles conflict-related issues, mostly those connected to armed conflicts. First the typology of political and armed conflicts is introduced, followed by the reflection on the origins of conflict and conflict prevention. Other topics include the role of non-violence in a political conflict, methods of conflict management and resolution, intractable conflicts and post-conflict reconstruction. The course consists of six lectures and six seminars. Each lecture will present one of the themes specified bellow as a combination of general concepts (e.g. necessary defence or a just war) and concrete examples from the history of armed conflicts with a primary focus on the post-Cold War period. Oxford-style debates with a discussion over presented concepts and compulsory readings will follow during the seminars. The goal of the opening debate is to outline the extreme positions of discussed problem whose nuances will then be analysed during the debate among the participants and the lecturer. To register for the seminar tasks, please go to http://doodle.com/poll/twwvfe75cgzwp2zu by October 5, 2018. Course description for summer: The ethics of armed conflicts is a subject that has experienced a revival in the last nearly four decades. Based on a tradition dating back to St. Augustine and Aristotle, the ethics of war experienced a renewed interest during the 1970s due to Michael Walzer’s seminal book, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, and to the Vietnam War which motivated Walzer, and others, to question if and under what conditions war and the use of lethal violence can be morally permissible. The ethics of armed conflicts is also a subject of utmost importance today. Statements addressing the justice of both the resort to force and conduct in its execution are prevalent in the media and in on-going political debates. The legitimacy of the Iraq War, the humanitarian intervention in Libya, targeted killing of Taliban and al-Qaida leaders around the world, or e.g. the question of soldiers’ obligations in peacekeeping missions became issues that divide international public opinion and put strains on international politics. The aim of this course is not to give prefabricated answers to such moral questions. Instead, the goal is to explore the moral arguments, assumptions and principles that underlie the range of answers and thus make students engage critically with these questions and arguments in relation to specific cases. |
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (31.08.2023)
Winter semester: Please check the course syllabus for WS 2023 in the file section above.
In the Summer Semester, the course Ethics of Violence will focus on ethical issues in armed conflicts. The ethics of armed conflicts is a subject that has experienced a revival in the last nearly four decades. Based on a tradition dating back to St. Augustine and Aristotle, the ethics of war experienced a renewed interest during the 1970s due to Michael Walzer’s seminal book, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, and to the Vietnam War which motivated Walzer, and others, to question if and under what conditions war and the use of lethal violence can be morally permissible. The ethics of armed conflicts is also a subject of utmost importance today. Statements addressing the justice of both the resort to force and conduct in its execution are prevalent in the media and in on-going political debates. The legitimacy of the Iraq War, the humanitarian intervention in Libya, targeted killing of Taliban and al-Qaida leaders around the world, or e.g. the question of soldiers’ obligations in peacekeeping missions became issues that divide international public opinion and put strains on international politics. The aim of this course is not to give prefabricated answers to such moral questions. Instead, the goal is to explore the moral arguments, assumptions and principles that underlie the range of answers and thus make students engage critically with these questions and arguments in relation to specific cases. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Kučera, Ph.D. (16.09.2023)
Winter semester: Please check the course syllabus for WS 2023 in the file section above, for Moodle connect here https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=7528. Please note that the course will start on October 10! Summer semester: The course is devided into lectures and seminars. The aim of the lectures is to introduce basic concepts, assumptions and problems in ethical thinking on armed conflicts. This introduction is followed with six seminars in which concrete cases are examined. Students will split into six groups, each group studying two cases. The seminars then will take the form of a trial with one group of students acting as a prosecutor and another group playing the role of a defendant and the rest of the class being a jury. In contrast with criminal courts, however, these trials will not be based on a cogent law but, rather, on (informed) moral intuition of the participants. Moodle (https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=4002) The e-learning platform ‘moodle’ is an essential part of this course. Every participating student is expected to enrol into the moodle-page of this module (http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4002) and regularly check its content. Moodle will provide a platform for 1) communication between the course convener and students, 2) distribution of the required reading, 3) mid-term examination.
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Poslední úprava: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (31.08.2023)
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