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

2. Maps?

3. Follow the Frog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iIkOi3srLo

4. Power Grid Vulnerability http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/13/289779344/report-small-scale-attacks- could-cause-national-blackout

5. Murray Controversy

6. Moynihan Report

7. Family, Race, and Class http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/ 2013/01/family-structure-class-sawhill Race Gender Economic opportunity

8. End of Men http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archiv e/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/

9. Internet of Things http://mobile.nytimes.co m/2014/03/16/opinion/s unday/the-rise-of-anti- capitalism.html?from=o pinion

10. Billionaire Science http://mobile.nytimes.c om/2014/03/16/scienc e/billionaires-with-big- ideas-are-privatizing- american- science.html?from=ho mepage

11. Ukraine

12. Crimea & Ukraine  Two things to watch as you consider your answers:  The long view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2nklduvThs  The short view: http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/1000 00002771613/crimeans-at-the- crossroads.html?smid=pl-share http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/1000 00002771613/crimeans-at-the- crossroads.html?smid=pl-share

13. Donor’s Conference

15. Community Relations Service http://www.civilrightsmediation.org/

16. Community Relations Service

17. Racial Conflict Scenario

18. Columbine Elementary Exercise I BVSD Open enrollment policy Columbine elementary 82% Latino 78% low income About 70% English Language Learners 51% “open enroll out” (30% average) Foothills elementary 90.5% Caucasian 6% low income

19. Columbine Elementary Exercise II Adequate Yearly Progress on CSAP standardized tests Failure leads to some form of “corrective action” Competing tests DRA 57% fifth graders at or above grade level CSAP 20% fifth graders passed Debate about the importance of language proficiency

20. Columbine Elementary Exercise III Parties Columbine parents Latino Caucasian School accountability advocates Superintendent Department of Education School Accountability Program Teachers Department of Education Civil Rights Division Rocky Mountain Center for Community Problem- Solving Latino Rights Fund

21. Columbine Elementary Exercise IV Better Boulder Foundation The Foundation has issued a “Request for Proposals” for broadly supported efforts to negotiate a consensus resolution of the Columbine Elementary School dispute. Civil Rights Advocacy Fund The fund has indicated that it will support efforts to promote the rights of Latino students and parents that they believe are likely to be successful.