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PACS 4500
Senior Seminar inPeace and Conflict Studies
Guy BurgessCo-Director
Conflict Information Consortium, University of ColoradoUCB 580, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0580, (303) 492-1635
burgess@colorado.edu
Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess
PACS 4500 Website/Syllabus
http://peacestudies.colorado.edu/pacs4500-course-homepage-spring2015
Anyone Dropping?
Open Letter
Destructive Conflict: A “Climate Change-class” Problem
Private Planning Conference
“Off-the-Grid” Conference Center
Open Public Conference
Today’s Focus
“Off-the-Grid” Conference Center
Possible Alliance Project
Conference Planning Working Groups?
Conference Planning Working Committee
Questions to Consider What more do you need to know? What are the big trends that the Conference should
consider? Positive trends to encourage? Negative trends to limit?
What are the formal and informal decision points leading to those trends that need to be examined for problematic conflict dynamics.
What strategies should be considered for limiting problematic dynamics?
Bottom line: Are poor conflict handling skills really a global warming-class problem?
Issues to Consider Considering
Conference Planning Working Committee
Climate Change
Inequitable Inequality
Source: Non-partisan Congressional Budget Office http://1.usa.gov/KMX1Ci
Optimal U.S. Wealth Distribution
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton ariely in press.pdf
The Lance Armstrong Effect
In a highly competitive environment, cheating (exploitation of customers, employees, and the environment) is the tie-breaker.
The “win” goes to the best cheater.
For capitalism to work, government must “level the playing field” by preventing cheating.
Financial System
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/01/07/now-we-know-jpmorgan-chase-worse-enron
Political Polarization
http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2014/12/PP-2014-06-12-polarization-0-05.png
Political “Gridlock”
The New Class Conflict
Third World Growth Developed Working Class Stagnation
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2015/01/01/recent-history-in-one-chart
Lifestyle Choices
http://www.heritage.org/childpoverty/united-statesthe through our site and I will
Technological Advance
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/opinion/sunday/friedman-if-i-had-a-hammer.html
Cultural Lag
W. F. Ogburn
Discrimination
#BlackLivesMatter
Fascism
Unneeded Workers
Anti-Semitism
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-13/paris-attacks-revive-israelis-fears
Security Excesses
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/are-we-safer/
0:00-3:40
5:50-7:40
16:00-21:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-race-the-police-and-the-propaganda.html
Alienation of the Police
Civil Unrest
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right
Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index
Fragile States
Fragile States Indicators
Fragile States Indicators
US Militarism
Tyranny
Kim Jong-un
Revolutionary Exchange of Elites
Violence
https://ia902500.us.archive.org/24/items/dbq01_desktop_en/dbq01_desktop_en.pdf
Neo-Imperialism / Structural Violence
The “Resource Curse” in its many forms.
The Real Problem of Muslim Fundamentalism
http://www.ted.com/talks/karima_bennoune_the_side_of_terrorism_that_doesn_t_make_headlines
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Specter for a Shia/Sunni War
What did I miss?
Conference Planning Working Groups?
Conference Planning Working Committee
Questions to Consider What are the big trends that the Conference should
consider? Positive trends to encourage? Negative trends to limit?
What are the formal and informal decision points leading to those trends that need to be examined for problematic conflict dynamics.
What strategies should be considered for limiting problematic dynamics?
Bottom line: Are poor conflict handling skills really a global warming-class problem?
Also: Who should be involved? Names? Perspectives? Strategies?
Conference Planning Working Groups?
Conference Planning Working Committee
Send me an email of your notes and I will post them
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