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There are plenty of Kenyon courses that discuss how to build a more just society and a better world but what about when it all goes wrong? The seminar “Civil Wars and Failed States,” taught remotely this semester by international relations and human rights expert Jackie McAllister, examines how a functioning country can descend into chaos. “It’s an interesting puzzle, because getting people to go kill other people is actually really hard to do,” McAllister said. “How do you break them down enough to do it?”
With case studies ranging from Yugoslavia to Sudan to Iraq, students explore both the conflicts themselves and international responses in the forms of peacekeeping and humanitarian aid. In-class visits by authors of the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency manual provide “not just the academic, but also the practitioner and policymaker perspective in the class,” McAllister said.
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