Hi, I'm Eric Lepp, I'm a Visiting Assistant Professor at Conrad Grebel University College
at the University of Waterloo. I teach on the Peace and Conflict Studies
201 class, that's the Roots of Conflict, Violence, and Peace.
PACS 201 is a course that is open to anyone and everyone at the university. We look at
different disciplines and the ways they encounter and view and frame peace,
conflict and violence, so
we look at things like nature and nurture, debate psychology versus biology,
we look at large political systems sort of the
realist perspective versus a more global governance cooperative approach. We look at the idea of conflict resolution
versus conflict transformation and the dynamics between those two and we look at
non-violence as an approach to building peace in our everyday lives. So we look at things like
climate change we look at things like
indigenous perspectives on peace, we look at
gendered and feminist approaches to building peace
and so we marry all these different things in this large survey course and
have a lot of fun doing it. And the
purpose behind this course is to let us as students and as the teacher to try and learn and figure out
how we can live in a more peaceful world.
