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 , (303) Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

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Making a Difference Guide

Information Sources

Making a Difference Guide Preliminary considerations – Distinguishing conflict from disputes – Scale and complexity – Your relationship to the conflict/dispute Conflict assessment and mapping – Traditional conflict assessment – Graphical conflict mapping Core issues and conflict – Justice/needs – Distributional conflicts – Moral conflict – Status/suppression conflict – Identity/security conflicts – Conflict as an engine of social learning Destructive conflict dynamics and constructive response – Misunderstandings – Destructive, partisan framing – Spreading disinformation – Flawed fact-findingEscalation – Violence – Unrightable wrongs – Poor relationships – Lack of a positive future vision – Poor collaborative skills – Overreliance on coercive power – The profiteer, Machiavelli problem – Poor governance Putting it all together complexity-based peace building

RISK Personal History Conflict Resolution Consortium Research Information

Mirrors

Looking at the US the Way We Look at Other Countries cision_not_to_indict_a_police.html

The Paternalism Trap: Practice What You Preach I the-best-aid-parodies?CMP=share_btn_tw

Development Boy 4:23

I want to be an aid worker

Motivations  Guilt washing?  Complaints about  Groupies(glory hounds)?  Resume padding?  Paternalism/arrogance?  Unwillingness to do the work

Boundaries of the Human Community  Diasporas  Remittances  Post-Westphalian global community

Peace and Security Funders Group

Funders

Counting  “Things that are counted count”  “Things that can be counted don’t count” and “things that count can’t be counted”

Peacebuilding 2.0, 3.0, 4…  Where we stand  What needs to be done  Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater 4.0

Peacebuilding Ethics Presentation Peace, Conflict, and Development Career Fair Ethics: Distinguishing Constructive from Ineffectual and Destructive Career Paths Presentation Plan

Definition by Example  Good projects – things that really have/will make a positive contribution  Well-meaning but ineffective projects – things that people try but don’t help much  Harmful projects – things that people are doing/have done that made things worse by either  Wasting resources that could better be used in other ways  Being directly harmful

Examples  Amnesty International  Land Mine Treaty  South Africa Sanctions  BDS Movement??  MBB  OEF  Others…

Definition by Example  Good projects – things that really have/will make a positive contribution  Well-meaning but ineffective projects – things that people try but don’t help much  Harmful projects – things that people are doing/have done that made things worse by either  Wasting resources that could better be used in other ways  Being directly harmful

Evaluation Criteria  What makes projects  Successful?  Ineffective?  Harmful?