Transcript PPT Slides -- January 13 - Peace and Conflict Studies

PACS 4500
Senior Seminar in
Peace and Conflict Studies
Guy Burgess
Co-Director
Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado
UCB 580, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0580, (303) 492-1635
[email protected]
Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess
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Course Overview / PACS 2500
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Get Acquainted
PACS Political Orientation
Government of the people, by the people, for the people
Teaching Philosophy
Your
Filters
Lots of
Ideas
Your Worldview
Tweaking the Image / NOT Professorial Download
Play-by-Play vs. Color Commentary
Core Ideas: Peace and Conflict Theory
Current Cases: Current Peace and Conflict News
A Different Kind of Academic Rigor
Master the
concepts
Engage the
material
Develop your
own personal
views
Don’t worry
about being
“right”
Practical Theory Focus
“There is nothing so practical as a good
theory”
Kurt Lewin
Assignments Grading
Grading
Attendance and Participation
Attendance Credit
.mp4 Podcasts
Laptops – For Class Use Only
• Power Point-based Note Taking
• Occasional exercises
Class Format
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In the News, for the MOOS
Mini-lecture things to think and talk about
Virtual guest lectures
Reading framing question discussion
Small group discussion, activity, exercise
Countering Extremist Teaching
http://tribune.com.pk/story/816284/countering-extremism-through-the-classroom/
Cultural Cross-Fertilization
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/7-cultural-concepts-we-dont-have-in-the-us
Class Discussions / Exercises
 Active versus passive
learning
 Hand-in notes sometimes
 Chance to talk with your
instructor
 Random group
assignments
Course Units
 Unit 1: Understanding the Intractable
Conflict Problem
 Unit 2: Complexity Oriented
Approaches to Conflict
 Unit 3: Making a Difference
Framework
 Unit 4: Areas Where You Can Make a
Difference
Unit 1: Understanding the
Intractable Conflict Problem
 Millennial Mega-Worries
 Destructive Conflict: A Climate-Change Class Problem
– Making the Case
 Cultural/Institutional Lag and the Era of Hyper-Change
 Walking the Talk: Really Listening across the Partisan
US Political Divide
 The Fitzduff Debate II: the Peace and Justice
Movement Versus the Disappearing Moderate Center
 Course Project Topic Exploration
Unit 2: Complexity Oriented
Approaches to Conflict
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Post-it Note Systems Mapping
Conflict Mapping Technology Working Session
Plotting the Why Chains
Drawing Community Boundaries
Social Networking: Making the MOOS Concept Work
Conflict Pathology Brainstorming – Things That Go
Wrong
 Making the Jump from Complicated to Complex
Peacebuilding (Mechanical to Organic Metaphors)
Unit 3 : Making a Difference
Framework
 The Ethics of Peacebuilding: Dos and Don’ts and
Whys
 Mapping Peer Review
 Conflict BINGO
 Using the “Make a Difference” Threaded Text System
 Peace and Conflict Funders Group Massively Parallel
Peacebuilding 2030 Plan
 “Follow the Money” Practicum
 How Do We Know When We Succeeded – Building the
Conceptual Foundation for a Peace and Justice Index
 “All of the Above” Solutions to Inequality
Unit 4: Areas Where You Can Make a
Difference
 “All of the Above” Solutions to Political Violence
 Way of Doing, Role Models
 Designing Required Civil Society Courses for the
University
 Reconciling the Distant past – Truth, Justice, Peace,
and Mercy
 Boulder Comprehensive Plan Simulation
 Building the Human Economy
 Security Crisis Response Contest
 World Affairs Week – Project Consultations
 Bright Idea Video Festival
 Elevator Speeches
Course Restructuring
Reading Reflections
Relationship
with in-class
activities.
Week by Week Plan
PACS 4500 Readings
PACS 4500 Readings
• PACS 2500 Review
• PACS 2500 Important Review
Real World Reading Skills
All Purpose Web Form
For
Reading
Reflections,
Project Topic,
Attendance
Makeups
Course Project Topic
Course Project Part I: Mapping
Course Project Part II: Concept Papers
Major Course Project / Drop Box
Make A Difference Threaded Text
http://peacestudies.beyondintractability.org/content/making-difference
Destructive Conflict:
A “Climate Change-class” Problem
Inequitable Inequality
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/opinion/the-year-in-charts.html?_r=0
Political Polarization
http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2014/12/PP-2014-06-12-polarization-0-05.png
Political “Gridlock”
Domestic Terrorism
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right
The New Class Conflict
Are Democrats the party of the .1%?
The Discarded Middle Class Problem
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2015/01/01/recent-history-in-one-chart
Developing World
New Opportunities
Developed World
Unneeded Workers
Mushroom Hierarchy?
Changing Job Market
65% of the jobs that will be
available in 10 years have
not even been thought of yet!
http://www.denverpost.com/smart/ci_27292210/future-job-what-humans-do-better-than-robots
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/futurework/execsum.htm
The Human Economy
https://hbr.org/2014/11/f
rom-the-knowledgeeconomy-to-the-humaneconomy
Open Letter
Beyond Intractability
Collaborative Learning Community
MOOS
Massive Open Online Seminar
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Massive Open Online Course Seminar
No fixed body of knowledge, no tests, no grades – just a collaborative
exploration of an extraordinarily important topic.
A Social Network-based Learning
Community
Reading Reflections
Points for New
Additional
MOOS
Materials
Post-Graduation Worries
Havlick’s Principle
Mega Worries
• What are the big
problems that have to
be solved?
• What are the
obstacles to solving
them?
• To what extent are
these conflict
problems?
• What kind of conflict
problem?
Opportunities to be Pursued
Problems to be Limited
Positive and negative
phraseology
Introductions ~ 1 minute
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Name
Major
Career goals
Plans after graduation
Peace and conflict issues of greatest
interest