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These are my full lecture notes for Political Violence and the Human Condition at the VU, and they helped me a lot throughout the course. I ended up with an 8.5 for the final assignment.They cover everything, from Arendt’s banality of evil and Milgram’s obedience studies, to the role of ideology, group dynamics, and intergenerational trauma. You’ll also find detailed notes on major case studies like Rwanda, Srebrenica, the Khmer Rouge, and the My Lai Massacre, along with frameworks like tr...

This is the full assignment set I submitted for Political Violence and the Human Condition at the VU, which got me an 8.5. It includes two polished essays: one on intergenerational trauma in a refugee family using Berckmoes’ framework, and another analysing the Islamic State’s ideology through Sykes and Matza’s neutralisation techniques. Each essay is grounded in real case studies and packed with theory, citations, and academic analysis. Super useful if you’re working on your own assignm...

This is my complete study pack for the course Philosophy and the Ethics of Political Violence: Peace, War and Terrorism at the VU. It includes lecture notes, literature summaries, and a full practice exam, everything I used to prep and score an 8.0 on the exam.

This is the practice exam I created for the Philosophy and the Ethics of Political Violence course at the VU, which helped me prep and score an 8.0 on the actual exam. It includes realistic, in-depth essay questions and answers that cover the full range of key thinkers and theories, Hobbes vs. Rousseau on violence, Pinker, Fukuyama, Huntington, Butler, Tutu, Fanon, and more. The answers are structured and detailed, showing how to bring theory into real-world examples like Israel-Palestine, Rwand...

This is my full set of literature notes for Philosophy and the Ethics of Political Violence, part of the Peace and Conflict Studies minor at the VU. These helped me score an 8 on the exam and saved me a ton of time. They cover all the core readings and ideas — from Just War thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas, and Walzer to critiques from Butler, Pinker, and Galtung. There’s also lots of helpful context around religious views on violence, structural violence, and ethical perspectives on humanit...

These are my complete lecture notes for the course Philosophy and the Ethics of Political Violence from the Peace and Conflict Studies minor at the VU. I used them to score an 8 on the exam. The notes break down key philosophical debates around war, terrorism, and peace, covering everything from Just War Theory and pacifism to civil resistance, human nature, religious violence, and the ethics of nonviolence. The concepts are clearly explained and connected to real-world cases like Rwanda, Kosovo...

This is the practice essay exam I made for Peace and Conflict: From Theory to Practice at the VU. It’s full of realistic questions and in-depth sample answers that helped me prep for the actual exam (I got an 8.0). The answers go into key ideas like structural and cultural violence, liberal peace critiques, intersectionality in peacebuilding, and case studies like Srebrenica. Great if you’re unsure how to structure your responses or want to review key theories in action. It’s a super helpf...

These are my complete lecture notes from the course Peace and Conflict: From Theory to Practice at the VU. I used them to score an 8.0 on the exam, and they cover everything clearly and thoroughly, from old vs. new wars, Johan Galtung’s theories, and structural violence to realism, liberalism, feminist and Marxist peace perspectives. They're packed with definitions, breakdowns of theoretical approaches, key thinkers, and real-world examples. Super useful if you’re looking to stay on top o...

This is my complete master pack for Conflict & Peacebuilding at the VU: includes both lecture notes and literature summaries, all organized and ready to go. I used this to get an 8.5 for the course, and it really helped simplify a lot of the complex theory.