PACS 2500

Introduction toPeace and Conflict Studies

Guy BurgessCo-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

Absolute Final Deadlines

Opinion Assignment #4 Due 8am Monday, April 27Final Exam Review Session, Thursday, April 30

Final Exam: Thursday, May 7, 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

D2L Gradebook Update

Guns

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/17/despite-lower-crime-rates-support-for-gun-rights-increases/

Guns

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/17/despite-lower-crime-rates-support-for-gun-rights-increases/

Rats & Land Mines

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-the-giant-rats-that-save-lives.html?_r=0

Iran

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

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

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

Quincy Wright Stages of Civilization• Language

• Writing

• Printing Press

• Electronic Communication

• Digital Communication

• Tools

• Animal Power

• Fossil Fuel Power

• Nuclear Power

• Sustainable Energy

Agricultural Civilization / Empire

Industrial Revolution

Modern Era

Hunter Gatherer

The Future ???

Human Needs Theory

Human Needs I

Safety/Security The need for structure, predictability, stability,

and freedom from fear and anxiety. Belongingness/Love

The need to be accepted by others and to have strong personal ties with one's family, friends, and identity groups.

Self-esteem The need to be recognized by oneself and

others as strong, competent, and capable. It also includes the need to know that one has some effect on her/his environment.

Human Needs II

Personal fulfillment The need to reach one's potential in all areas of

life. Identity

Goes beyond a psychological "sense of self." Burton and other human needs theorists define identity as a sense of self in relation to the outside world. Identity becomes a problem when one's identity is not recognized as legitimate, or when it is considered inferior or is threatened by others with different identifications.

Human Needs III

Cultural security Related to identity, the need for recognition of

one's language, traditions, religion, cultural values, ideas, and concepts.

Freedom The condition of having no physical, political, or

civil restraints; having the capacity to exercise choice in all aspects of one's life.

Distributive justice The need for the fair allocation of resources

among all members of a community.

Human Needs IV

Participation The need to be able to actively partake in and

influence civil society

Human Needs Theoryand the Machiavellian Greed Problem

Lessons of Failure???

Failed military operations

Lesson: Strengthen military capabilities

Failed peace initiatives

Lesson: Strengthen military capabilities

Better lesson: Try harder to make peace and non-

violence work

The Promise of Nonviolence

Justice without Violence

Nonviolence

Gene Sharp – Power of Ideas

http://www.aeinstein.org/

Non-Violence

Principled?

vs.

Pragmatic?

Non-Violence

Against a Morally Limited Adversary?

Against an Immoral Adversary?

Guilt Mobilization

“America must live out the true meaning of it’s creed”

South Africa

Mandela

Why aren’t there more Mandelas?

Mandela

Why aren’t there more Mandelas?

Peter Paul, and Mary

No Easy Walk to Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=750QHbksHe8

Desmond Tutu

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11092007/watch4.html

Start Video @ 4min to "end of apartheid"

Moyers through intro

Truth and Reconciliation

Nelson Mandela / Invictus

We can't win a war, but we can win an election

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/12/08/249562974/nelson-mandela-and-the-virtue-of-compromise

Invictus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZY8c_a_dlQ

Semester at Sea

Desmond Tutu7:00-17:30 or 20:00 Minutes

Desmond Tutu

Tutu Challenge

What is your generation doing that, 20 years from now, will be viewed as comparable to efforts to end apartheid?

What might it do?

FCQs