1. 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 80309-0580, (303) 492-1635 burgess@colorado.edu burgess@colorado.edu Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

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8. PACS 4500 Syllabus

9. PACS 4500 Website/Syllabus http://peacestudies.colorado.edu/pacs4500-course-homepage-spring2015 See Email

10. D2L Website Link, Grades, Drop Box Only

11. Course Rules You are responsible for reading and following the course rules on the Website

12. Screenshots  The next set of slides are all “screenshots” from the class website.  All of this information is available online.  Use the online version of these pages, do not use these PowerPoints as your reference.  You will receive e-mail notifications of all significant changes to the website  Send to your _____@colorado.edu address_____@colorado.edu

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16. Main Campus Norlin Office Norlin Library S423 (Inside S436)

17. East Campus Office East Campus Office: ARC building, 3100 Marine St, East campus, Room A228 [2nd floor (excluding basement), south "Annex" wing, (not room 228)] -- Take the Stampede bus. East Campus Office: Call first to make sure I'm available! East Campus Office Phone: 303-492-1635. Use this or e-mail (preferred) for messages.

18. Course Overview / PACS 2500

19. Online Text

20. Online Textbook Voucher Purchase at UMC Bookstore $20.00

21. Temporary Text

22. Logging In, Lost Password

24. Get Acquainted

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

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

27. Play-by-Play vs. Color Commentary Core Ideas: Peace and Conflict Theory Current Cases: Current Peace and Conflict News

28. A Different Kind of Academic Rigor Master the concepts Engage the material Develop your own personal views Don’t worry about being “right”

29. Practical Theory Focus “There is nothing so practical as a good theory” Kurt Lewin More adaptable than idiosyncratic case examples.

30. Assignments Grading

31. Grading

32. Attendance and Participation

33. Attendance Credit

34. .mp4 Podcasts

35. Laptops – For Class Use Only Power Point-based Note Taking Occasional exercises

36. Class Format  In the News, for the MOOS  Mini-lecture things to think and talk about  Virtual guest lectures  Reading framing question discussion  Small group discussion, activity, exercise

37. Countering Extremist Teaching http://tribune.com.pk/story/816284/countering-extremism-through-the-classroom/

38. Cultural Cross-Fertilization http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/7-cultural-concepts-we-dont-have-in-the-us

39. Class Discussions / Exercises  Active versus passive learning  Hand-in notes sometimes  Chance to talk with your instructor  Random group assignments

40. Course Units  Unit 1: Understanding the Intractable Conflict Problem  Unit 2: Complexity Oriented Approaches to Conflict  Unit 3: Making a Difference Framework  Unit 4: Areas Where You Can Make a Difference

41. Unit 1: Understanding the Intractable Conflict Problem  Millennial Mega-Worries  Destructive Conflict: A Climate-Change Class Problem – Making the Case  Cultural/Institutional Lag and the Era of Hyper-Change  Walking the Talk: Really Listening across the Partisan US Political Divide  The Fitzduff Debate II: the Peace and Justice Movement Versus the Disappearing Moderate Center  Course Project Topic Exploration

42. Unit 2: Complexity Oriented Approaches to Conflict  Post-it Note Systems Mapping  Conflict Mapping Technology Working Session  Plotting the Why Chains  Drawing Community Boundaries  Social Networking: Making the MOOS Concept Work  Conflict Pathology Brainstorming – Things That Go Wrong  Making the Jump from Complicated to Complex Peacebuilding (Mechanical to Organic Metaphors)

43. Unit 3 : Making a Difference Framework  The Ethics of Peacebuilding: Dos and Don’ts and Whys  Mapping Peer Review  Conflict BINGO  Using the “Make a Difference” Threaded Text System  Peace and Conflict Funders Group Massively Parallel Peacebuilding 2030 Plan  “Follow the Money” Practicum  How Do We Know When We Succeeded – Building the Conceptual Foundation for a Peace and Justice Index  “All of the Above” Solutions to Inequality

44. Unit 4: Areas Where You Can Make a Difference  “All of the Above” Solutions to Political Violence  Way of Doing, Role Models  Designing Required Civil Society Courses for the University  Reconciling the Distant past – Truth, Justice, Peace, and Mercy  Boulder Comprehensive Plan Simulation  Building the Human Economy  Security Crisis Response Contest  World Affairs Week – Project Consultations  Bright Idea Video Festival  Elevator Speeches

45. Course Restructuring

46. Reading Reflections Relationship with in-class activities.

47. Week by Week Plan

48. PACS 4500 Readings PACS 2500 Review PACS 2500 Important Review

49. Real World Reading Skills

50. All Purpose Web Form For Reading Reflections, Project Topic, Attendance Makeups

51. Course Project Topic

52. Course Project Part I: Mapping

53. Course Project Part II: Concept Papers

54. Major Course Project / Drop Box

55. http://peacestudies.beyondintractability.org/content/making-difference Make A Difference Threaded Text

56. Destructive Conflict: A “Climate Change-class” Problem

57. Inequitable Inequality http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/opinion/the-year-in-charts.html?_r=0

58. Political Polarization http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2014/12/PP-2014-06-12-polarization-0-05.png

59. Political “Gridlock”

60. Domestic Terrorism http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

61. The New Class Conflict Are Democrats the party of the.1%?

62. The Discarded Middle Class Problem http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2015/01/01/recent-history-in-one-chart

63. Developing World New Opportunities

64. Developed World Unneeded Workers

65. Mushroom Hierarchy?

66. Changing Job Market http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/futurework/execsum.htm 65% of the jobs that will be available in 10 years have not even been thought of yet! http://www.denverpost.com/smart/ci_27292210/future-job-what-humans-do-better-than-robots

67. The Human Economy https://hbr.org/2014/11/f rom-the-knowledge- economy-to-the-human- economy

68. Open Letter

69. Beyond Intractability Collaborative Learning Community

70. MOOS Massive Open Online Seminar Massive Open Online Course Seminar No fixed body of knowledge, no tests, no grades – just a collaborative exploration of an extraordinarily important topic. S

71. A Social Network-based Learning Community

72. Reading Reflections Points for New Additional MOOS Materials

73. Post-Graduation Worries

74. Havlick’s Principle

75. 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?

76.  http://www.clker.com/clipart-theatre- masks-19.html http://www.clker.com/clipart-theatre- masks-19.html  free Opportunities to be Pursued Problems to be Limited Positive and negative phraseology

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