About Conflict Resolution in Cross-cultural Perspectives
The course illuminates the ordering of human societies; focuses on how societies, without court, negotiate, settle and resolve disputes, and how they bring order without the formal law enforcement mechanisms; introduces the methods and theoretical approaches employed by legal Anthropologists; discusses legal pluralism in contemporary societies; analyzes ethnographic case studies of disputes settlement/resolution mechanisms particularly of sub-Saharan African societies; encourages students to engage in actual fieldwork on the analysis of conflict management or settlement mechanisms in the diverse cultures of Ethiopia.