Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro

Violence, War and Trauma

when 27 June 2023 - 1 July 2023
language English
duration 1 week
credits 4 EC
fee EUR 480

This course will examine the classification of violence; its forms and motivations; governance and regulation of violence; and its physical, psychological and political effects and uses. It will address questions such as: whether all violence can be considered political; the changing social construction of violence; how a context of violence tends to bifurcate thinking and ways of knowing; how violence becomes enculturated; and whether it can be seen as a form of communication. It considers individual and collective state and non-state violent actors; normative and legal definitions and contexts of violence; and how violence is legitimized or de-legitimized. The effects of violence are considered in historical perspective, the effects of war on populations, the aftermath of political violence for combatants, the changing understandings of the impact of violence on individuals, the use of suffering and the politics of victimhood and contemporary understandings of trauma.

Course leader

Prof. Marie Breen-Smyth (University of Massachusetts, USA)

Credits info

4 EC
Students who complete the course requirements may transfer the course credit to their home institution (4 ECTS).*

*Please note, it is the student's responsibility to verify with your home institution that you are allowed to transfer ECTS credits.

Fee info

EUR 480: Full Tuition: 480 EUR (worldwide)

*Former CFCCS Summer School participants qualify for the special tuition discount.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.
EUR 250: Reduced Tuition: 250 EUR

To qualify for Reduced Tuition, Summer School applicants need to be citizens of and to currently reside in one of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Israel, Kosovo, Palestine, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Turkey.

*Former CFCCS Summer School participants qualify for the special tuition discount.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.