Here is a website that you may find useful for your papers.

The International Crisis Group website
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1
– an excellent source of information on current international conflict zones. While going through this website, you should be able to get some ideas about your paper topic.

Give two examples of a system level approach to conflict prevention and resolution during the twentieth century. Was either successful?

The following textbooks are required for the course:
Abbas. (2014). The Taliban Revival. Yale University Press. ISBN: 978-0-300-17884-5

Diehl, P., & Balas, A. (2014). Peace Operations. (2nd ed.). Polity Press. ISBN: 0745671810