PACS 4500

1. PACS 4500 Senior Seminar in Peace and Conflict Studies Section 001 Guy Burgess

2. IPCC Adapting to Climate Change http://ipcc.ch/pdf/ar5/pr_wg2/140330_pr_wgII_spm_en.pdf

3. Lake Powell

4. The New Dust Bowl?

5. The New Dust Bowl?

6. 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

7. Beyond Simple Definitions of Poverty http://media.npr.org/documents/2014/april/PovertyTracker_Spring14_3p.pdf

8. 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

9. Rigging the Stock Market http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297686724/on-a-rigged-wall-street-milliseconds-make-all-the-difference

10. Kony 2014 http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/03/25/294315138/joseph-kony-is-back-in-the-news-do-teenagers-still-care

11. New Tribalism http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22742-focus-the-new-tribalism

12. Selfie vs. Community

13. 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.

14. World Affairs Conference Suggested Sessions?

15. 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

16. 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

17. Intervention Concept Papers

18. Conflict Assessment Worksheet

19. 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 • Machiavellian tyrant • Unequal playing field • Adaptation to violence • Polarization • Disrespect and humiliation

20. Threaded Text

21. Mapping & the Sticker Shock Problem

22. Mapping / Adopt a Challenge

23. Think Globally Act Locally If you’re not part of the solution your part of the problem -- Eldridge Cleaver

24. Massively Parallel Peacebuilding

25. Specialization, Division of Labor

26. Directory-Oriented Approach

27. Focus on Incremental Improvements Pursue the Medical, Pathology Treatment Model Not a fruitless search for grand, utopian solutions

28. Core Issues Distributional Moral Status Identity Overlays

29. Overlay Problems Escalation Relationship Communication Collaboration Core

30. Week 9 Reading Reflection Topics De-escalation

31. Escalation Violence Breakover • Vengeance • Self-Defense Conflict Intensification Feedback Loops Rachets • Sacrifice Trap • Shame Trap Personalization Breakover • Interpersonal Attack • Unthinking Anger Enmity Reinforcement • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • Recreational Complaint Tactical Choices • Invincibility Illusion • Tactical Escalation / Response • Coalition Building/Polarization Beginnings • Out-Group Identity • Worst Case Bias • Victim Bias • Grievances

32. 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

33. 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

34. Charter for Compassion? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxO-6SaNMvg

35. 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

36. Week 10 Reading Reflection Topics Misunderstandings

37. Week 11 Reading Reflection Topics Relationships

38. 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

39. Victim to Heroine http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/11/26/opinion/1194834021302/from-victim-to-heroine.html

40. MukhtaranBibi / MukhtārMā'ī http://www.nytimes.com/video/2006/03/31/opinion/1194817113867/kristof-the-courage-of-mukhtar-mai.html