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

World Affairs Conference

 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.

Piecing Together the Puzzle

Intervention Concept Papers

Conflict Assessment Worksheet

Conflict BINGO? Metaphor

New Bingo Rules  Your conflict is the Bingo card.  All conflicts have very different profiles that create very different intervention opportunities.  As we go through each basic type of problem, ask if it is applicable to your situation.  Then ask if the problem is realistically “actionable.”  “Bingo’s” result when you find a cluster of things that could be done.  As we go through these,  We will take “votes” to see how many cases experience each problem,  Ask for examples of how each problem plays out in specific cases.

“BINGO” Questions 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 18.Machiavellian tyrant 19.Others???

Threaded Text

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

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