PSY2506 – Green Mediation: Conflict, Collaboration, and Change Towards a Sustainable Future

• Know some of the prototypical conflicts in climate change mitigation, the parties involved and their positions
• Identify causes of conflicts related to resources, ideology, and identity
• Understand the social and cognitive dynamics behind these conflicts, including underlying interests and needs, perceived threats and opportunities, social norms, and heuristics/biases
• Examine the roles of cooperation and competition in the escalation of conflicts
• Describe the "tragedy of the commons" and the conditions for cooperation in this dilemma
• Distinguish the issue level from the relational level in the analysis of conflict

Skills:

• Analyze conflicts through the lenses of different conflict models
• Identify integrative potential in conflicts that facilitate win-win solutions.
• Principled negotiation
• Trust-building through cooperation
• Practical know-how in negotiation, mediation, and collaborative processes
• Fostering mutual recognition and tolerance
• Develop sound judgment in situation assessment

General competencies:

• Reflect on values and standards in conflict management approaches
• Awareness of one’s own role and how one’s identity, ideology and values impact one’s feelings, decisions and actions
• Thinking strategically about when, where and how to engage, and when to disengage

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The teaching will consist of lectures and seminars.

Compulsory activity

The seminars will be compulsory, with attendance 10/12 times.

There will also be a compulsory oral presentation that has to be passed to get access to the exam.

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Absence from compulsory activity

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If you are sick or have another valid reason for not attending the regular exam, we offer a postponed exam later in the same semester.

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