Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Drugs, Peace, and Development: Rethinking Policy
SOAS University of London
This online course from SOAS University of London investigated connections between illicit drugs, peacebuilding and development using a policy trilemma framework. It explored possibilities for people-centred policy development and considered how to generate more humane approaches to illicit drugs.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Jonathan Goodhand
Professor in Conflict and Development Studies
SOAS University of London
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate the relationship between illicit drugs, conflict, and development, drawing on evidence from the borderlands of three major drug-producing regions of the world: Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar
- Identify policy linked to the wars on drugs and their different impacts on some of the world’s most marginalised populations
- Engage with contemporary debates on global drug policy and efforts to integrate drugs, development and peacebuilding policy
- Assess the tensions and trade-offs surrounding policy goals of a drug-free world, the promotion of peace and sustainable development
- Apply the concept of a policy ‘trilemma’ to navigate tensions and trade-offs between policy goals, and to devise more humane ways to tackle drugs, development and peacebuilding challenges
Syllabus
This course addresses how and why illicit drugs are central to peacebuilding and development by offering:
- An overview of conflicting dimensions between drug policies, conflict and peacebuilding, and development
- An introduction to cutting edge evidence from leading experts on the possibilities for generating alternative policy solutions to help transform war economies into peace economies
- An examination of the relationships between state fragility, conflict, illicit drugs, and processes of development in diverse contexts
- A review of different approaches, policies and programmes in response to drugs, their underlying assumptions, and their successes and failures
- A close look at the real-life implications of the policy trilemma
Issued on 24th March 2024
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