Teaching
Professor Cederman and his staff will teach the following courses at the ETH in the autumn term 2025:
Political Violence (857-0009-00L)
This course offers an introduction to political violence in domestic and international politics. The course covers explanations of interstate wars, theories of civil and ethnic wars and regional conflict. Other topics include new threats, including transnational terrorist networks and other non-state actors, and the relationship between conflict and nation-building and democratization processes.
Lecturers: Lars-Erik Cederman and Livia Schubiger
ECTS credits: 8 credits
Conflict Research I: Political Violence (853-0015-00L)
This course offers an introduction to research on the causes and solutions to political violence in domestic and international politics. First, we discuss the definitions and concepts used in conflict research, the data and methods commonly applied and their historical development. Second, we focus on interstate wars und examine in this context state formation, nationalism and democracy. Then we focus on different types of political violence, including civil war or terrorism. The third part of the course analyses current political conflicts.
Lecturer: Lars-Erik Cederman
ECTS credits: 4 credits
Inaugural lecture
The introductory lecture presented by Lars-Erik Cederman on June 10, 2004. The video recording of the event is also available: