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PACS 4500
Senior Seminar inPeace and Conflict Studies
Section 001
Guy Burgess
IPCC Adapting to Climate Change
http://ipcc.ch/pdf/ar5/pr_wg2/140330_pr_wgII_spm_en.pdf
Lake Powell
The New Dust Bowl?
The New Dust Bowl?
McCutchen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-strikes-down-limits-on-federal-campaign-donations/2014/04/02/54e16c30-ba74-11e3-9a05-c739f29ccb08_story.html?hpid=z1
Beyond Simple Definitions of Poverty
http://media.npr.org/documents/2014/april/PovertyTracker_Spring14_3p.pdf
Impact of Globalization
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/opinion/edsall-is-the-american-middle-class-losing-out-to-china-and-india.html?hp&rref=opinion
Rigging the Stock Market
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297686724/on-a-rigged-wall-street-milliseconds-make-all-the-difference
Kony 2014
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/03/25/294315138/joseph-kony-is-back-in-the-news-do-teenagers-still-care
New Tribalism
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22742-focus-the-new-tribalism
Selfie vs. Community
World Affairs Conference Next Week
No regular classes next Instead, attend 2 World Affairs sessions related
to conflict topics and include a write-up with your reading reflections. Also, be prepared to talk about what you learned in
class on April 15.
Everyone will also be required to attend a small group discussion, half class to talk about your projects. I will send out a schedule.
World Affairs Conference
Suggested Sessions?
Next Week’s Schedule
Tuesday, April 15 2:00-2:35
•Alli
•Kyle
•Lindsey
•Brandy
•Emily Alexis
Tuesday, April 15 2:40-3:15
•Sarah
•Tanya
•Josh Stein
•Justin
•Emily Oliver
•Orphea
•Danyah
Tuesday, April 17 2:00-2:35
•Elizabeth
•Gavin
•James
•Andrew
Tuesday, April 17 2:40-3:15
•Elsa
•Dominic
•Marissa
•Katie
•Stella
•Joshua Pericas
Bring Project Challenges!
Tuesday, April 15 2:00-2:35
•Alli
•Kyle
•Lindsey
•Brandy
•Emily Alexis
Tuesday, April 15 2:40-3:15
•Sarah
•Tanya
•Josh Stein
•Justin
•Emily Oliver
•Orphea
•Danyah
Tuesday, April 17 2:00-2:35
•Elizabeth
•Gavin
•James
•Andrew
Tuesday, April 17 2:40-3:15
•Elsa
•Dominic
•Marissa
•Katie
•Stella
•Joshua Pericas
Intervention Concept Papers
Conflict Assessment Worksheet
Assessment Problems
1. Intolerable moral differences (requiring confrontation)
2. Tolerable moral differences (amenable to coexistence strategies)
3. Within ZOPA distributional conflict
4. Outside ZOPA distributional conflict
5. Status (pecking order) conflict
6. Identity conflict
7. Misunderstandings (well-intentioned)
8. Disinformation (deliberate)
9. Factual disagreements (well-intentioned)
10. Factual disagreements (deliberate)
11. Rightable wrongs
12. Unrightable wrongs
13. Escalation (beyond hate threshold)
14. Escalation (beyond violence threshold)
15. Missing negotiation channels
16. Missing positive vision
17. Kludgeocracy
18. Machiavellian tyrant
19. Unequal playing field
20. Adaptation to violence
21. Polarization
22. Disrespect and humiliation
Threaded Text
Mapping & the Sticker Shock Problem
Mapping / Adopt a Challenge
Think Globally Act Locally
If you’re not part of the solution your part of the problem -- Eldridge Cleaver
Massively Parallel Peacebuilding
Specialization, Division of Labor
Directory-Oriented Approach
Focus on Incremental Improvements
Pursue the Medical, Pathology Treatment Model
Not a fruitless search for grand, utopian solutions
Core Issues
Distributional Moral Status
Identity
Overlays
Overlay Problems
Escalation Relationship Communication
Collaboration
Core
Week 9 Reading Reflection Topics
De-escalation
Escalation
Conflict Intensification
Beginnings Out-Group Identity Worst Case Bias Victim Bias Grievances
Enmity Reinforcement Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Recreational Complaint
Tactical Choices Invincibility Illusion Tactical Escalation / Response Coalition Building/Polarization
Rachets Sacrifice Trap Shame Trap
Personalization Breakover Interpersonal Attack Unthinking Anger
Violence Breakover Vengeance Self-Defense
Feedback Loops
De-Escalation Strategies
Portray Conflict Process as the Source of Evil and All Sides as Victim (e.g. Hiroshima)
“Mistakes Were Made” Amnesty (?War Criminal Problem?)
Initiate Cooling-off Periods Give Losers a Future They Can Live With
(World War I vs. II Settlement) Trust Earning / Confidence Building (GRIT)
Recognition that Escalation Strengthens Enemies as well as Friends
No Response or Minimal Response to Provocation
De-Escalation Strategies
Disarming Behavior to Break Stereotypes (Sadat)
Pursue Cooperative Activities between Enemies
Replace Negotiators Correct Other Overlay Problems
Limit Misunderstandings Clarify Facts Pursue Fair Process
Create Islands of Un-escalated Discourse Accurate Cost of Conflict Accounting
Charter for Compassion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxO-6SaNMvg
The Meeting Place
Justice Punish those that committed “unrightable”,
“unspeakable” wrongs
Truth Acknowledge the guilt, build a common
history
Peace Stop the fighting and killing (even if it
means letting people “get away with it”)
Mercy Stop the hate with forgiveness
Lederach Trade-Offs
Week 10 Reading Reflection Topics
Misunderstandings
Week 11 Reading Reflection Topics
Relationships
Visioning
Justice Punish those that committed “unrightable”,
“unspeakable” wrongs
Truth Acknowledge the guilt, build a common
history
Peace Stop the fighting and killing (even if it means
letting people “get away with it”)
Mercy Stop the hate with forgiveness
Future Vision Imagining a positive future vision and a fair
relationship
Elise Boulding
Victim to Heroine
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/26/opinion/1194834021302/from-victim-to-heroine.html
Mukhtaran Bibi / Mukhtār Mā'ī
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2006/03/31/opinion/1194817113867/kristof-the-courage-of-mukhtar-mai.html