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

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

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PACS Political Orientation Government of the people, by the people, for the people

Teaching Philosophy Tweaking the Image / NOT Professorial Download Lots of Ideas Your Filters Your Worldview

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”

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Schedule  Week 1 -- January 14, The Intractable Conflict Challenge  Week 2 -- January 21, Nature and Causes of Intractability  Week 3 -- January 28, Complex Nature of the Intractable Conflict Systems  Week 4 -- February 4, 6 -- Applying Complexity Thinking to Conflict and Peace  Week 5 -- February 11, Conflict Mapping I  Week 6 -- February 18, Conflict Mapping II  Week 7 -- February 25, Theories of Change  Week 8 -- March 4, 6 -- Focusing on the Core Issues: High- Stakes Distributional Conflicts and Moral Conflict  Week 9 -- March 11, Focusing on the Core Issues: Identity, Security, and Status

Schedule  Week 9 -- March 11, Focusing on the Core Issues: Identity, Security, and Status  Week March 18, Conflict Overlays: Escalation  Week April 1, 3 -- Preventing, Identifying, and Correcting Misunderstandings  Week April 8, Restoring Broken Relationships/Building New Relationships  Week April 15, Governance and Power  Week April 22, Coordination and Synthesis  Week April 29, May 1 -- Presentations (Intervention Peer Reviews)

Introductions ~ 1 minute  Name  Major  Career goals  Plans after graduation  Peace and conflict issues of greatest interest

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?