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

Class Project Clusters Reproductive Issues – Abortion US / Thailand – 3 – FGM – 2 US Equity Conflicts – Affordable Care Act – Incarceration Rates – Chicago Gangs – Higher Education Access Health – GMO farming – US Nutrition – 2 – Maternal Mortality African Conflict – Eritrea – Congo – 2 – Congo – South Sudan Past Wrongs – Armenian Genocide – Israel

Information Overload Control The drinking from a firehouse problem.

Reading Reflections  Sources of information  Types of assessment  Pre-, during, post-Intervention

Map Sections  Dispute Focus  Dispute Chain  Involved Parties (Summary)  Detailed Party Profiles  Structure  Destructive (and Constructive) Conflict Dynamics

Sample Maps

New Deadlines

For Thursday  Bring sketch of your conflict map to hand in and questions about the programs.

No Blueprints, Be Creative! I’m agreeable to modifications that stick within the spirit of the assignment and exhibit comparable levels of effort

Commentary / Camtasia Recording

Core and “Ah Ha” Map Topics? Conflict Dynamics  Misunderstandings  Destructive, Partisan Framing  Spreading Disinformation  Flawed Fact-Finding,  Escalation  Violence  Unrightable Wrongs  Lack of Collective Purpose  Lack of Future Vision  Destructive Competition  Over-Reliance on Coercive Power  The Profiteer / Spoiler Problem  The Machiavelli Problem Third Side Prevention Provider Teacher Bridgebuilder Resolution Mediator Arbiter Equalizer Healer Containment Witness Referee Peacekeeping Levels Elite Mid-level Grassroots Power options Legal Legislative Electoral Economic Military Public opinion Core Substantive Issues Distributional Conflict Moral Conflict Status Conflicts Identity Conflicts

Power Point / Prezi Skills Power Point Obtaining Power Point – Open Office free alternative Slideshow structure Creating shapes with text Drawing lines/arrows Capturing and inserting images – Windows “snipping tool” Advanced “insert” Understanding “arrange” Inserting internal, external links Using slide sorter Understanding animations Design, themes Understanding slide master, sub- master, layouts Backups Prezi Getting a Prezi account – Free educational version Workspace structure Creating frames with text Drawing lines/arrows Inserting diagrams Inserting PowerPoints Editing paths Templates Backups, “save a copy”

Drawing, Prezi, PowerPoint, Web Pan & Zoom Slideshow & Hyperlink Web Site 2D Map

Power Point

Open Office

Templates / Themes

Slide-Based Structure

Drawing Shapes

Insert / Slide, Slideshow Editor

Arrange

Insert Hyperlinks

Animations

Understanding Layers ACLU

Master Style

Prezi

Prezi Work Space

My Prezi’s Screen

Prezi Opening Screen (w/ copy/backup)

Templates

Basic Editing Screen

Insert Frames / Arrows

Diagrams

Frame Editor

Insert…

Themes

Prezi Work Space

Help / Tutorials

Website Option

Power Point / Prezi Skills Power Point Obtaining Power Point – Open Office free alternative Slideshow structure Creating shapes with text Drawing lines/arrows Capturing and inserting images – Windows “snipping tool” Advanced “insert” Understanding “arrange” Inserting internal, external links Using slide sorter Understanding animations Design, themes Understanding slide master, sub- master, layouts Backups Prezi Getting a Prezi account – Free educational version Workspace structure Creating frames with text Drawing lines/arrows Inserting diagrams Inserting PowerPoints Editing paths Templates Backups, “save a copy”

Taxpayer Bill Of Rights TABOR org/wiki/Taxpayer_ Bill_of_Rights Plus, K-12 education funding and getting tough on crime

University of Colorado Tuition a.com/camera/db_ 37873/contentdetail.htm?contentguid= KuFKF4wx

Plenary Roads / US36 erpost.com/new s/ci_ /s eeds-dispute- over-u-s-36- management- deal

Extra Slides

Legend Friend Ally Adversary Enemy Neutral Other (Mark, Client?) Insert Arrows w/ Multiple Slides for Different Time Periods Exacerbating Dynamic Ameliorating Dynamic Comment Danger Point Pictures Causality Positive: an increase in A causes an increase in B Negative: an increase in A causes a decrease in B Party A Group 1 Party B Group 1 Negative feedback system (de- escalation) or Positive feedback system (escalation)

Symbols Dedicated Fighters Power Grabbers Compromisers Decision Making / Organizational Structure Culture / Value Profile Constituent Group Constituent Communication Power Profile: Legal, Political, Economic, Military, Popular Strategic / Tactical Plan: Interests, Positions, Bargaining Strategy

Map Layers

Map Scale – Macro, Meso, Micro

Time Series

“Adopt-a-Highway” Maps

Wehr Mapping Elements  Context  Parties  Causes / Consequences  Contrasting Beliefs  Goals & Interests  Dynamics  Functions  Regulation Potential

Conflict Arenas Negotiation Legal action Political action Moral competition Economic competition Military confrontation Etc. Conflict Actors / Interveners Grassroots Citizens Third SidersProfiteers Competing Interest Groups & Leaders Altruistic & Selfish Motives Altruistic Interveners Self-Interested Interveners Competing Interest Groups & Leaders Altruistic & Selfish Motives Grassroots Citizens Mid-Level Activists 3 rd Parties 2 nd Parties 1 st Parties 4 th Parties

Third Side Roles

Lederach's Levels of Action

Dispute Chains & Chess Think as many moves ahead as possible then go for strategic position

Boulder Open Space Case Biased, personal story To illustrate power options

Power Options / Disputing Arena I Moral arguments designed to persuade people to voluntarily change their behavior Appeals to administrative discretion Efforts to influence "rulemaking" processes Legal challenges based on alleged violations of settled law Negotiation based on the fact that it is less costly than power contests and achieves the same result

Power Options / Disputing Arena II Litigation as part of an effort to set a new legal precedent Lobbying efforts designed to change the law Electoral efforts designed to change the makeup of legislative bodies Public education programs to lay the groundwork for a electoral campaign Economic power and financial resources to take action in the private sector

Power Options / Disputing Arena III Attempt to exert illegal or unethical influence on political leaders (e.g. bribes) Defy political authorities through acts of civil disobedience or covert lawbreaking Violent resistance and intimidation State-sponsored military threats and, if necessary, action

Ripeness as Time Appropriate Intervention Michael S. Lund, Preventing Violent Conflicts: A Strategy for Preventive Diplomacy (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996), p

Conflicts and Disputes

The Football Analogy Disputes are the plays and conflict is the game with special rules: 1) the game never ends, and 2) the goal is to keep the ball at your end of the field.

Abortion Dispute History A partial list of major abortion-related disputes in the United States and associated shift in aggregate social policies. Pro-ChoicePro-Life Abortion prohibition laws Abortion legalization efforts (state-level) Roe v. Wade GOP decision to focus on the abortion issue Pro-Choice interest group organization Pro-Life interest organization Pro-Life Supreme Court appointments Pro-Choice Supreme Court appointments Threats abortion providers State-level abortion restriction legislation Many other disputes in various arenas

Threaded Text I  Introduction  Preliminary Considerations  Distinguishing Conflicts from Disputes  Scale and Complexity  Your Relationship to the Conflict / Dispute  Conflict Assessment and “Mapping”  “Traditional” Conflict Assessment  Graphical Conflict Mapping  Core Substantive Issues in Conflict  Distributional Conflict  Moral Conflict  Status Conflicts  Identity Conflicts  Conflict as the Engine of Social Learning

Threaded Text II  Destructive Conflict Dynamics – And Constructive Responses  Misunderstandings  Destructive, Partisan Framing  Spreading Disinformation  Flawed Fact-Finding, Interpretation, and Utilization  Escalation  Violence  Unrightable Wrongs  Lack of Collective Purpose  Lack of Future Vision  Destructive Competition  Over-Reliance on Coercive Power or “Power Over”  The Profiteer / Spoiler Problem  The Machiavelli Problem

Conflict Map Assigment

Map Elements  The primary conflict parties  Other important parties, if there are any (such as key allies of one side or the other)  Active and potential third parties  Primary parties' attributes (the way they self-identify, their values, positions, interests, needs, frames, grievances -- basically how they "see" or understand the conflict.  Sources of power and power strategies  Significant events (dispute episodes within the longer running conflict)  Significant conflict dyanmics such as homeostasis, positive and negative feedback loops, non-local or non- linear causation, and probabalistic effects.

Documentation  In addition to drawing the maps themselves, we want you to annotate the maps — explaining what all the shapes and elements mean, why they are included (what makes them especially important to the story you are trying to tell) and why you drew them as you did.  This can be done in an accompanying MSWord document, or it can be done by including extra "slides" with more detailed information which can be accessed with links or by "zooming- in" with prezi. If you click on a box for the Assad government, for example, in a map of the Syrian conflict, that could take you to a power point slide that talks about the nature of the Assad government and what their role is/was in driving that conflict. It's also possible for you to present your slideshow orally on a.mp4.  This documentation is also where you should put in citations to reference sources

Grading Grading will be based on the following criteria:  Inclusion of requested mapping elements,  Number of elements within each category,  Clarity and accuracy of maps,  Quality of documentation,  Integration of the various sub-maps with one another,  Writing quality,  Timeliness of both the draft and final map.