Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2116: South Asian Conflict Studies

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Basic reading:

Dietrich, W., 2015.  Elicitive conflict mapping. Springer Fachmedien.

GOODHAND, J., KORF, B. and SPENCER, J. (2011). Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka. London: Routledge.

MACGINTY, R. (2010). Hybrid peace: The interaction between top-down and bottom-up peace. Security Dialogue. 41. p. 391-412.

RAMSBOTHAM et al, ‘Contemporary Conflict Resolution’

RICHMOND, O (2011), A Post Liberal Peace, Routledge

SPENCER, J. (1990a). Sri Lanka, history, and the roots of conflict. London: Routledge.

SPENCER, J. (2007). Anthropology, politics and the state: democracy and violence in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

THIRANAGAMA, S. (2011). In my mother’s house: Civil war in Sri Lanka. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

VENUGOPAL, R. (2009). The making of the Sri Lankan post-conflict economic package and the failure of the 2001–4 peace process. Oxford: CRISE. Working Paper 64.

WALKER, R. (2010). Violence, the everyday and the question of the ordinary. Contemporary South Asia. 18 (1). p. 9–24.