Provides an interdisciplinary foundation for global peace studies. Focuses on identifying the various factors that interact to generate peace and/or conflict at the personal, local, national, and international levels. Includes analysis of how the interaction of economic and political influences, as well as the availability of environmental resources and cultural norms and values can result in peace or conflict. (Successful completion of this course satisfies the civic engagement requirement in the AA and AS degrees).Credit may be earned in IHU 120W or SSI 120W but not both.