Mondays, January 27 - February 10 | 3 weeks | 1 - 3 pm | $35

Instructors: Dr. James Adams

Did you know that local community and international conflicts and interventions share many of the same peace and conflict dynamics? Get a unique orientation on peace and conflict basics using a stabilization and peacekeeping operation framework. Adams shares his observations based on years of on-the-ground experience with the United Nations and other international organizations in conflict zones.

Adams guides the class to a better understanding of key peace and conflict dynamics. The class begins with short lectures on different approaches and looking at core intervention components followed by discussions on human dynamics and scale, a war to positive peace continuum, and missing pieces. Learn about constructive balance and a broader perspective toward peace and conflict circumstances, and to a better understanding of peace and conflict basics and peacebuilding possibilities.

This course also introduces you to key concepts: constructive conflict; sustained dialogues; public peace processes; peacekeeping; peacemaking; peacebuilding; the violentization process; a war to sustainable peace continuum; and restorative justice. Discover your own conflict circumstances and how to better discern such dynamics at community, societal, and global levels generally, as human fundamentals apply at all levels. Students will be better able to contribute to a more informed and constructive national discourse and improved human relations.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Dr. James Adams is a Viet Nam veteran with a BA in International Relations. He served in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office as Assistant Director of the Mayor’s Citizen’s Assistance Center. Beginning in 1993, Adams has worked as a humanitarian officer, operations officer, and civil affairs officer in Africa, Kosovo, and Afghanistan with NGOs, IOM, the United Nations, and USAID. Assignments include Head of Office (COP), refugee/internally displaced persons operations, regional coordination, humanitarian, civil, and minority affairs, and local governance stabilization and democratization. Adams holds a MSc. And Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis & Resolution. His doctoral field work was done in Bosnia. He is the author of “Analytic Reflections from Conflict Zones: A Cautionary Tale for A Polarizing America and World” (2021). His next book, “Peace and Conflict Basics: Citizens Edition”, is coming out soon.

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