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

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