EDUC42940 Development & Societal Transition in complex, post-conflict situations

Academic Year 2021/2022

This module is an option for those registered for the UCD MSc. in Sustainable Development in partnership with UN SDSN; it takes its basis and direction from SDG16; Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions.
Dramatic and far-reaching changes have taken place over the two decades in how the international community views and responds to the incredibly complex development issues and challenges presented by societies emerging from conflict and related disaster. ‘Post-conflict’ societies as they are often termed require multi-sectoral, multi-agency action on a scale that is easily underestimated, misunderstandings can occur with disastrous consequences due to misjudgements of the temporal, spatial and systems dimensions of the transition to normalcy.
Those with a critical interest in development and reconstruction work within the framework of SDG 16, need a deep understanding of societies in post-conflict transition and, more specifically, of the roles, practices and value systems of a variety of key actors and institutions at the supranational, national and sub-national levels within this transition process.
This module provides an introduction to the core understandings and capabilities necessary to engage successfully in comprehensive-approach framed transitional analysis, principled crisis response action, and effective post-intervention review and policy learning.
This module will be delivered online in 2020/21.
All students registered to this module have full access to all of the digital resources on the SDG Academy and access to the UN SDSN Network.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Not recorded
Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Tutorial

12
Seminar (or Webinar)

12
Specified Learning Activities

40
Autonomous Student Learning

70
Online Learning

10
Total

144
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module is designed to be participatory, interactive and hands-on. The module is taught in a way that facilitates and encourages the development of capability, in context and in collaboration with others in the module group.
The online nature of the course requires a willingness on the part of the student to develop familiarity with the use of learning technologies to support individual and small-group based learning on-line and/or at-distance. This includes an openness to posting work and commenting on the work of other participants in mediated course fora and other spaces that are private to the course and having an interest in developing the skills and capabilities to learn and share learning through online activities and events.
Essentially; the module which has its roots in the values and principles of SDG 16 is designed to be driven by relevant input, and strongly activity-based. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Portfolio: A portfolio of outcomes to tasks and activities based on the week-to-week work of the programme and compiled for a final, reflective summary. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded Yes

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Assessment in this module is based in continuous, task-based learning with learning opportunities built into activities across every session of the course. Feedback to these tasks is informal, kinetic, and in-context. The formal module assignment is designed in such a away that it reflects both the necessity to study and understand the complexities of working for sustainable development within fragile and unsettled contexts, and the individual interests of the student. To this end a portfolio of work is developed over the course of the module, representing a balance between these. This portfolio is critiqued on completion and feedback made available in written or oral form to the individual student, as appropriate.

Name Role
Professor Patrick Paul Walsh Lecturer / Co-Lecturer