Undergraduate Courses
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Academic Year 2024-2025
2429. Political Violence
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: POLS 1202 or 1402.
Grading Basis: Graded
The forms, causes, and consequences of political violence including terrorism, insurgency, and civil war. Addresses why individuals and groups take up arms; how and why nonstate actors employ specific strategies of violence; how states fight back; and how conflicts end. Formerly offered as POLS 3429.