{"id":663,"date":"2013-09-03T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T15:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lamp1.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=663"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:22:16","slug":"a-focus-on-peace-and-conflict-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2013\/09\/03\/a-focus-on-peace-and-conflict-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"A focus on peace and conflict studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Professors from three disciplines across campus collaborated recently to develop a minor in peace and conflict studies. This fall, Missouri Western began offering the minor, thanks to the efforts of Joanne Katz, professor of legal studies; Dr. David Kratz Mathies, assistant professor of philosophy; and Dr. Ed Taylor, assistant professor of political science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a real benefit to our students because we all bring in different perspectives,\u201d Dr. Taylor said. Dr. Kratz Mathies noted that several religions focus on peace activism, Katz has been involved in restorative justice programs, and Dr. Taylor, whose dissertation focus was conflict studies in Northern Ireland, brings the perspective of how governments can solve conflicts without violence.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Taylor said in his discipline of international relations, his college courses focused a lot on war, but not how to stop wars and the aftermath of war. As an undergraduate and graduate student, he wanted to take courses that focused on non-violent resolutions, but he couldn\u2019t find any. \u201cI am happy that we will expose Missouri Western students to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The courses in the minor, said Dr. Kratz Mathies, cover the entire spectrum of conflict resolution from interpersonal to international relationships. Classes will discuss the causes of conflict between people and the mechanisms for resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen David suggested this, it was fabulous,\u201d Katz said of the minor. \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to say this is important for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brings a different set of skills that students can take to any job,\u201d Dr. Taylor said. \u201cIt\u2019s very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professors from three disciplines across campus collaborated recently to develop a minor in peace and conflict studies. This fall, Missouri Western began offering the minor, thanks to the efforts of Joanne Katz, professor of legal studies; Dr. David Kratz Mathies, assistant professor of philosophy; and Dr. Ed Taylor, assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}