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