Course description
This course provides students with mechanisms and techniques to understand non-violence, its roots and areas of application at the educational, social and professional levels and in conflict management and building relationships. This course aims at enabling students acquire the skills of analyzing non-violent concepts, based on methodological and intellectual standards, in comparison to the concepts of violence. In this course, students will be able to gain general knowledge about the origins of the concept of violence and about the violence and the human nature theories, in order to discover the meaning of the ‘real self’ and ‘false self’. The course also includes theoretical and practical skills about the pillars of non-violent communication, the philosophical, sociological, psychological and educational roots of communication, as well as the components of violence in communication. This course was developed to allow students experience their communication skills.
Students will prepare two to three articles about the non-violence philosophy.