Courses

Identity-based conflicts rooted in ethnic or religious differences pose distinctive challenges for third-party mediators and other advisers. The course will outline strategies for addressing these issues, including responding to leaders who enflame identities, approaching the touchy issue of religion—both your own and local people's, building relationships through dialogue and ritual, and making use of indigenous or traditional reconciliation measures.

Understand the roles of arms control and nonproliferation regimes, as well as the U.S. strategic posture, in confronting the challenges of nuclear weapons, with a special focus on the growing role of China as a regional and world power, and the dangers of North Korea’s nuclear weapons capability at a time of regime transition.

This course provides an in-depth look at the threat posed by the spread of nuclear weapons, current approaches to halting this spread, and ways to correct shortcomings in the current international nonproliferation regime.  The course will also examine new ways to strengthen the nuclear control regime, address the challenges of North Korea and Iran, and reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism using simulations, analysis, and group discussions.