Courses offered

• International Humanitarian laws and implementation: The course enables the scholars to understand the international legal rules and principles relating to armed conflict. It strongly focus on International rules concerning the legality of the use of arm forces and the rules governing the conducts of parties during armed conflict as well as its implementation and monitoring thereon. In addition, this course will examine the UN laws relating to the conduct of armed conflicts, problems of enforcement of humanitarian law; war crimes; humanitarian intervention; protection of refugees; and the role of humanitarian organizations.

• International Criminal Law and Court System: This course provides an overview of the establishment of International Criminal Court (ICC), its jurisdiction and how victims should address a complaint, presentation of evidences, the participation of victims in trials; the protection and safety of victims and witnesses. It also highlights the execution of punishment for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in order to put an end to the impunity through various ad hoc criminal tribunals.
  Besides these, international treaties against crime, extradition and mutual assistance treaties will also be analyzed along with the critical dissection of all the pros and cons for rectifying the Rome statute by Nepal.

• Protection of women and children in Armed Conflict: The goal of this course is to orient the scholars to reduce the effects of war on people and property and to protect particularly vulnerable persons i.e. women and children. The course discusses the issues of violence, masculinity, gender and militarism, women/child combatants, violence against women/children and exploitation.
  It tends to orient the scholars on the role and effectiveness of NGos & INGOs and critically assess the potential of these organizations to act as a third party for protection, return, resettlement, and reintegration of women and children and conflict victims as guaranteed by international law through multi-level and multi-agency community based rehab programs.

• Conflict resolution (Principles, norms and practice): This course introduces the scholars to various structure, practices and norms of establishing global peace by critically debating about the deployment of armed military forces in conflict situations through human rights lens. This course raises fundamental questions about the causes of conflict, ethnic/geopolitical dynamics of conflict, why conflicts continue and escalate thereby providing experimental learning largely through case studies including Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and Sri Lanka. Its major topics include multi disciplinary approach of re-integration of human rights principles and values in the context of conflict transformation through various modules.

• Report Writing and field research: This course intends the scholars to take up outdoor research on any of the burning areas prescribed within their area of study to gain a first hand exposure. This prepares the scholars to have a broader and practical outlook on the problems for prescribing alternative forms of solution and recommendations. The objective of this course is to boost the scholars with skills and confidence to present their research papers and float their ideas amongst national and international delegates.
  The research report thus prepared needs to be presented before the internal and external experts which needs then to be submitted to the University

• Dissertation: Each scholar ought to prepare an extensive and original research based dissertation written within the frame work of the prescribed course. The scholars are free to choose their topic and supervisors.
  The scholars need to undertake a series of seminar classes on dissertation writing for preparing their respective proposal/synopsis. The proposal thus prepared needs to be presented and defended among the faculty members before taking up their dissertation work.