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 [email protected]
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