Global Peace,
Human Rights, and Justice StudiesGlobal Peace,
Human Rights, and Justice StudiesProfessors—Anton, Aviel, Felsteiner, Kardush, Issel, Lunine, Medcalf, Rischin, Shapiro
Associate Professors—Barbosa, Graham, Ovrebo, Trautman
Assistant Professor—Lovaas
Lecturers—Bagakis, Epstein, Ginger, Robertson
Minor in Global Peace, Human Rights, and Justice Studies
The world is a dangerous place, fraught with the specter of nuclear war and ecological devastation and threatened by the inability of governmental and financial powers to create just and effective solutions for deepening social problems as well as for the conflicts of peoples and nations.
Knowledge is a powerful tool; it has shown that each individual can make a difference. Global Peace, Human Rights, and Justice Studies provides an organized study of the international law of human rights and the ways it can be used by the citizens of the world in pursuit of basic human rights; a study of the causes of domestic and social violence, civil war, and war between nations; and a study of the various methods that have been and are being developed for the non-violent resolution of conflicts at the personal, group, national, and international levels. The program emphasizes the need for justice in the distribution of the world's goods as a condition for a peaceable and sustainable world.
Students and faculty in this all-university, interdisciplinary minor cooperatively study and explore in depth the problems, issues, challenges, and opportunities to prevent war and to make this a just and peaceable society and world.
The Minor in Global Peace, Human Rights, and Justice Studies provides problem-solving skills relevant to students whatever their major course of study. These are the skills for analyzing and redressing the underlying causal roots of violence, including poverty in the midst of plenty, racism, sexism, imperialism, fear, and environmental degradation. These are the skills that empower people to work more effectively to protect human rights and create systems of social justice. Without jobs and justice there can be no peace.
The Global Peace, Human Rights, and Justice Studies Program works cooperatively with the following institutions in developing internships, sponsoring programs and conferences, and engaging in other educational projects in pursuit of peace and justice.
The Center for the Covenant, College of Humanities, SFSU
The center was formed to promote awareness, understanding, and use of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which became international law in 1976 and was ratified by the U.S. in 1992.
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley, California
Since 1965 the institute has been providing information on law and history to scholars, activists, and the media; and working for jobs, justice, and peace.
SFSU Urban Institute
The purpose of the center is to develop strategies and practical programs to address critical economic, social, and educational problems in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
On-line course descriptions are available.
| Core | Units | |
| GPS/IR 315 | Introduction to Global Peace Studies | 3 |
| Units in conflict resolution selected from: | 3-4 | |
| IR 432 | Model United Nations (4) | |
| PSY 547 | Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution | |
| COMM 531 | Conflict Resolution (4) | |
| Units in international law and organizations selected from: | 3-4 | |
| GPS/PHIL 375 | Peace, Law, and Human Rights | |
| IR 334 | International Organizations: New World Order (4) | |
| Units selected in the philosophies of peace and non-violence: | 3 | |
| HUM 366 | India's Gandhi | |
| PHIL 435 | Human Rights in Global Perspective | |
| PHIL 502 | World Religions | |
| Electives | ||
| Units chosen on advisement from the following: | 7 | |
| ANTH 321 | Endangered Cultures | |
| GPS/PHIL 375 | Peace Law and Human Rights in the U.S. (If not taken in the core.) | |
| HED/URBS 582 | Homelessness and Public Policy | |
| HIST/JS 317 | The Holocaust and Genocide | |
| HIST 428 | History of the United States since 1945 | |
| HIST 464 | American Ethnic and Race Relations I: 1740-1890 | |
| HIST 465 | American Ethnic and Race Relations II: 1890-Present | |
| HUM 366 | India's Gandhi (If not taken in the core.) | |
| IR 330 | World Law (4) | |
| IR 334 | International Organizations: New World Order (4) (If not taken in the core.) | |
| IR 432 | Model United Nations (4) (If not taken in the core.) | |
| PHIL 435 | Human Rights in Global Perspective (If not taken in the core.) | |
| PLSI 552 | Individual Rights in the Constitution (4) | |
| PSY 547 | Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution (If not taken in the core.) | |
| SOC 461 | Ethnic Relations: International Comparisons (4) | |
| COMM 461 | Issues in Free Speech (4) | |
| WOMS 531 | Women and International Development | |
| GPS 699 | Individual Study (1-3 units) | |
| The following electives are available for field study or
internship, on advisement: CHS 695, IR 640 (1-5), PHIL 680 (1-3), WOMS 698 (1-3) |
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| Program total | 22-24 | |