{"id":11330,"date":"2025-06-09T13:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=11330"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:05:37","slug":"conflicts-and-struggles-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/tr\/previous-courses\/winter-2021-22\/conflicts-and-struggles-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicts and Struggles for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-93552f31\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Conflicts and Struggles for Peace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b1648cf9 gb-headline-text\"><em>in the Age of Social Cohesion Crisis<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#ali-yalcin-goymen-anchor\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#ali-yalcin-goymen-anchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AL\u0130 YAL\u00c7IN G\u00d6YMEN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As Wendy Brown&#8217;s seminal work Undoing the Demos masterfully sums it up, we live in an era of crisis \u2013 the crisis of social cohesion. This crisis makes people vulnerable to economic conditions and creates a social environment where seeds of hate, misogyny, xenophobia, etc. grow fast. Some nations are so polarized; they already seem to be on the verge of a civil war. A new type of political leadership emerged to exploit the masses&#8217; dissatisfaction, and people lose their intention to coexist with their fellow citizens. As such, conflicts have become the rule of governance in the authoritarian phase of neoliberalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course aims at pointing out this authoritarian tendency from a critical peace studies perspective with a special regional focus on the political developments in Turkey. Our study of social conflicts and peace in Turkey will start by introducing different approaches to this topic and looking at neuroscientific, anthropological, and philosophical theories on the nature of conflict and peace. This investigation will provide us a solid foundation to be able to determine the historical conditions of conflict and peace in the era of crisis of social cohesion. In this regard, the essence of neoliberalism will be reviewed from the perspectives of both political economy and post-structuralist theories. After clarifying the conditions of the road to contemporary tyranny, the phenomena like social cohesion crisis, economization and elucidation of public sphere, and friend-enemy politics will be dealt with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the last years, we also witnessed some successful struggles against the authoritarian current. Black Lives Matter from the Global North and Peasants!&#8221; Strikes from India are significant examples that could bring different demands of the left in Turkey and elsewhere with a focus on the needs of people who have suffered under the neoliberal rules for a long time. These movements were also successful in presenting that the old #normal\u201d was the problem and the solutions to our current crisis lie beyond the old bourgeois normativity. That is why they will be evaluated as democratic and peaceful sprouts of future society. Throughout the course, special attention will be given to Turkish case, and examples such as the poisoning attitude of Turkish government against its female, LGBTQ, and Kurdish citizens will be analyzed.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-3abba40a gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/conflicts-and-struggles-for-peace-syllabus-W21.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"conflicts-and-struggles-for-peace-syllabus-W21 g\u00f6m\u00fcs\u00fc.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-130bf015-c659-4bc6-a3be-cabebd83de84\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/conflicts-and-struggles-for-peace-syllabus-W21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conflicts-and-struggles-for-peace-syllabus-W21<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">18.10.21 &#8211; 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