Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This online course addressed how to gain access to the perspectives and worldviews of hard-to-reach “enemy” actors, to improve situational awareness in a conflict zone. It covered how to extract relevant information from insurgent primary source materials, such as official statements, videos, and other messages. It also explored how to use conceptual tools from the security literature to better interpret and analyze armed group behavior.
3 weeks, 5 hours per week
Dr Aisha Ahmad
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Toronto
FutureLearn
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Access the perspectives and worldviews of “enemy” actors in a conflict zone, to improve situational awareness and mitigate risk.
- Correctly interpret and analyse insurgent primary source materials, such as official statements, videos, and other messages.
- Effectively apply conceptual tools from the security studies literature to interpret and analyse armed group behaviour.
Syllabus
- Challenge perspectives and worldviews of armed actors that we consider to be our “enemy”.
- Build situational awareness.
- Gain better insight into enemy perspectives, even in cases where there is very limited primary source material available.
- Factors affecting human decision-making in wartime.
- Use our “alt-lens” tool to explain and predict how a well-intentioned intervention scenario could provoke a hostile reaction.
Issued on 5th January 2025
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