MITRA4421 – War, Peace and the Nobel Peace Prize

After you have taken this course you are expected to be able to:

• Have gained an overview of and be able to discuss major trajectories and processes related to the history of war and peace in the 20th and 21st centuries
• Have gained an overview of and be able to discuss the most important historiographical approaches to questions of war and peace in the 20th and 21st century
• Have gained an overview and be able to discuss interdisciplinary perspectives on war and peace and to sketch out the basic theories that explain the nature of international relations, including their relevance and implications for the interpretation of historical events
• Discuss in some detail the position of the Nobel Peace Prize within international history
• Work with others in small groups, including providing constructive and structured comments to other students’ contributions.
• Develop a small, individual research project
• Demonstrate oral presentation skills

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

The course is available to all students accepted to Modern International and Transnational History (master), Peace, Conflict, and Democracy (master), Historie (master) and European History (master)

Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.

Two seminars are dedicated to on-the-spot workshops at the Library of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and will be centred on working with primary sources and designing and writing a seminar paper.

Students are expected to actively participate in teaching, and prepare for each meeting.

Students have to submit a sketch of the term paper project for confirmation to qualify for the exam.

Resources and information in this course will be given in Canvas.

The course is assessed by a term paper. Your paper must not exceed 6000 words, notes included. Attachments and/or bibliography are not included in the word count.

The assignment is specified on the Canvas page for the course.

The examination of this course is integrated in the teaching of the course and it is therefore not possible to sit for the examination other than by being admitted to the course.