Information about the Peace and Conflict Studies minor (available prior to Fall 2025)
Starting in Fall 2025, the School of Peace and Conflict Studies will be offering two minors: Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Management, and Environment, Peace and Justice. The minor in Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Management is a revised version of our Peace and Conflict Studies minor that we offered in previous years.
As of Fall 2025, students will no longer be able to add the Peace and Conflict Studies minor, but can instead pick up Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Management. Students currently enrolled in the Peace and Conflict Studies minor are not affected by the change - the name and requirements for the minor will stay the same for those who picked up that minor prior to Fall 2025, and you will be able to complete those requirements under that name. However, you do have the option of switching over to the revised minor if you wish.
The new name for the minor (for those signing up in Fall 2025 or later) is Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Management. The total hours for the minor has been reduced from 21 credit hours to 15 credit hours. Negotiation has been added to the core courses required for the minor, while the following classes have been moved from core courses to electives: Gender, Power and Conflict; Nonviolence Theory and Practice; and Conflict Theory. Career Pathways in Peace and Conflict Studies was removed from the elective list, and we have added some of our newer courses as electives.
Comparing the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor with Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Management
Minor in Peace and Conflict Studies (for students who added the minor prior to Fall 2025)
Core (15 hours):
- Intro to Conflict Management
- Gender, Power and Conflict
- Nonviolence: Theory and Practice
- Conflict Theory
- Mediation
Electives (6 hours) - choose from:
- May 4th 1970 and Its Aftermath
- Strategic Planning
- International Conflict Resolution
- Cross-Cultural Conflict Management
- Conflict in the Workplace
- Career Pathways in Peace & Conflict Studies
- Environmental Conflict Resolution
- Internship (ELR)
- Special Topics in Peace & Conflict Studies
- Reconciliation vs Revenge
- Variable Content Seminar in Peace & Conflict Studies
Total: 21 hours
Minor in Negotiation, Mediation and Conflict Management (for students who add the minor Fall 2025 or later)
Core (9 hours):
- Intro to Conflict Management
- Mediation
- Negotiation
Electives (6 hours) - choose from:
- May 4th 1970 and Its Aftermath
- Strategic Planning
- International Conflict Resolution
- Cross-Cultural Conflict Management
- Conflict in the Workplace
- Environmental Conflict Resolution
- Internship (ELR)
- Special Topics in Peace & Conflict Studies
- Reconciliation vs Revenge
- Variable Content Seminar in Peace & Conflict Studies
- Gender, Power & Conflict
- Nonviolence Theory and Practice
- Conflict Theory
- Community Organizing
- Study Away (ELR)
- International Experience (ELR)
Total: 15 hours