This course will seek to examine issues related to international health, human rights, and peace building. It will analyze international health in a social, cultural, economic, and political context. The course will examine the structural forces influencing international power relationships, especially those relationships which impact on gender and health, with specific emphasis on how the dynamics influence everyday lives in developing countries. The course will explore health and human rights in the context of the global political economy and will review Canada's role and contribution to international health, human rights, and peace building. The course will develop links between theory and practice and will look at case histories and examples of non-government (NGO) and government-initiated interventions for public health, human rights, and peacebuilding.