和平与发展研究专业关注促进和平，人权和可持续性的方法。它涉及对导致国际和地方冲突，社会错位和环境恶化的权力和机会不平等的批判性分析。学生将研究种族主义和性别暴力，环境危机，强迫移民，贫困，资源冲突和代际不平等的结构性原因。相互关联的解决方案网络包括赋权和自决，可持续生活，建设性发展，缔造和平与建立和平。这些要求了解识别，测量和解决冲突与环境恶化的理论和方法。对传统发展实践的假设和失败进行了严格评估。学生将在地方，国家和国际各级的跨学科和应用框架内运用社会理论。该专业包括三个领域：1）结构性不平等，社会正义
The Peace and Development Studies major is concerned with methods for promoting peace, human rights and sustainability. It involves a critical analysis of inequalities of power and opportunity that lead to international and local conflict, social dislocation and environmental degradation.<br><br>Students will examine the structural causes of racist and gendered violence, environmental crises, forced migration, poverty, resource conflict, and inter-generational inequity. The inter-related network of solutions includes empowerment and self-determination, sustainable living, constructive development, peacemaking and peace building. These require understanding of the theories and method for identifying, measuring and resolving conflict and environmental degradation. The assumptions and failings of traditional development practice are critically assessed. Students will engage social theory within an interdisciplinary and applied framework, at local, national and international levels.