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Course: PACS 301: Special Topics in Peace and Conflict Studies I
Topic title: Prison and Police Abolition as Moral Imagination
Topic description: Ideas about what's right and wrong, good and bad, what's true, and what's beautiful often come from religious sources. How have moral perspectives and values from religion contributed to policing and incarceration in Canada and the U.S., and their especially deadly impacts on Black and Indigenous lives? How can anti-racist, decolonial and feminist approaches to moral imagination enable the potential abolition of policing and prisons, and the creation of a new society in which safety is not premised on violence? Examining these questions, this interdisciplinary peace and conflict studies course integrates insights from Black studies, liberation theologies, gender studies, contemporary anti-violence movements, and other sites of emancipatory knowledge production
uwaterloo.ca/peace-conflict-studies
Course: PACS 301: Special Topics in Peace and Conflict Studies I
Topic title: Prison and Police Abolition as Moral Imagination
Topic description: Ideas about what's right and wrong, good and bad, what's true, and what's beautiful often come from religious sources. How have moral perspectives and values from religion contributed to policing and incarceration in Canada and the U.S., and their especially deadly impacts on Black and Indigenous lives? How can anti-racist, decolonial and feminist approaches to moral imagination enable the potential abolition of policing and prisons, and the creation of a new society in which safety is not premised on violence? Examining these questions, this interdisciplinary peace and conflict studies course integrates insights from Black studies, liberation theologies, gender studies, contemporary anti-violence movements, and other sites of emancipatory knowledge production
uwaterloo.ca/peace-conflict-studies
