PACS 4500

Senior Seminar inPeace 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

Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

Project Presentations(3 minutes!)

• Elevator speech?

• NPR Interview

• Mini-party

Required Certificate Completion Form

Sign-Up Sheet

Semester you plan to graduate Form completed? 1st and 2nd choice day for elevator speech

Thursday 23rd

Tuesday 28th

Thursday 30th

All Assignments/Comments on D2L

Graduate Education

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/09/law-schools-are-in-a-death-spiral-maybe-now-theyll-finally-change/http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/why-law-schools-are-losing-relevance--and-how-theyre-trying-to-win-it-back/2015/04/20/ca0ae7fe-cf07-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html?tid=HP_lede?tid=HP_lede

Sectarian Peace

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-middle-easts-long-sectarian-peace/2015/04/17/70e015a4-e3b2-11e4-81ea-0649268f729e_story.html?hpid=z3

Iran

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/opinion/mohammad-javad-zarif-a-message-from-iran.html

How to Challenge Partisan Hatred?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-new-tribal-cycle-of-hatred/2015/04/17/67794040-e50a-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html?tid=HP_opinion?tid=HP_opinion

Boulder

Boulder Comprehensive

Plan Game

Boulder Comp Plan Game Roles

1. Boulder Rights of Nature2. Sustainable Planet Initiative

(Municipalization)3. Boulder Outdoor Connections (Recreation)

4. Affordable Boulder (New Urbanism / Condos / Height Variance / N Boulder Growth)

5. Boulder Is Not NY (Neighborhood Preservation)

6. Boulder Technology Alliance (Commercial/Government Development)

7. Boulder for Boulderites (Google US36 Fears)

8. Boulder Mayor and Deputy Mayor

Comprehensive Plan Meeting

1. Boulder Tech Center -- 13 Sustainable initiative Flat iron preservation Subsidized housing

2. Affordable housing -- 13 North Boulder with open space East Boulder height variance Infill housing Mixed-use

3. Trail rotation -- 16 Adopt a trail Wind solar on open space

4. Sustainable energy -- 16 Energy efficiency and housing

Boulder Comp Plan

Comments

Integrated Regional Planning Collaboration!!!! OSMP Funding Trail Rotation / Area Closures Energy Development on Open Space

Your thoughts?

Intervention Concept Papers

Formatting

Intervention Concept Papers

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Concept Paper Evaluation

What would you look for?

Project Presentations(3 minutes!)

• Elevator speech?

• NPR Interview

• Mini-party

Constructive Conflict Market

Create a “Conflict E-Bay” to promote knowledge utilization and fill knowledge gaps

MOOS

Research Assistant Opportunities

Knowledge Base/Learning Community

Civic Responsibility Requirement?

Civic Responsibility Requirement

Must Not Be a Partisan Lightening Rod Level(s) Name? Background knowledge to be taught “Do’s” to be taught? “Don’ts” to be taught? Persuasion not preaching Domestic and international

Write One Paragraph Description

FCQs