PACS 4500
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

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PACS 4500 Syllabus

PACS 4500 Website/Syllabus
http://peacestudies.colorado.edu/pacs4500-course-homepage-spring2015

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Course Rules
You are responsible for reading and following the course rules on the Website

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Contact Info / Office Hours
Informal conversations encouraged

Urgent Contact Form

Urgent Contact Form

Main Campus Norlin Office
Norlin Library S423 (Inside S436)

East Campus Office
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East Campus Office: ARC building, 3100 Marine St, East campus,
Room A228 [2nd floor (excluding basement), south "Annex" wing,
(not room 228)] -- Take the Stampede bus.
East Campus Office: Call first to make sure I'm available!
East Campus Office Phone: 303-492-1635. Use this or e-mail
(preferred) for messages.

Course Overview / PACS 2500

Online Text

Online Textbook Voucher
Purchase at UMC Bookstore $20.00

Temporary Text

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Get Acquainted

Government of the people, by the people, for the people

Teaching Philosophy
Your
Filters
Lots of
Ideas
Your Worldview
Tweaking the Image / NOT Professorial Download

Play-by-Play vs. Color Commentary
Core Ideas: Peace and Conflict Theory
Current Cases: Current Peace and Conflict News

A Different Kind of Academic Rigor
Master the concepts
Engage the material
Develop your own personal views
Don’t worry about being
“right”

Practical Theory Focus
“There is nothing so practical as a good theory”
Kurt Lewin
More adaptable than idiosyncratic case examples.

Assignments Grading

Grading

Attendance and Participation

Attendance Credit

.mp4 Podcasts

Laptops –
• Power Point-based Note Taking
• Occasional exercises

Class Format
 In the News, for the MOOS
 Mini-lecture things to think and talk about
 Virtual guest lectures
 Reading framing question discussion
 Small group discussion, activity, exercise

Countering Extremist Teaching http://tribune.com.pk/story/816284/countering-extremism-through-the-classroom/

Cultural Cross-Fertilization http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/7-cultural-concepts-we-dont-have-in-the-us

Class Discussions / Exercises
 Active versus passive learning
 Hand-in notes sometimes
 Chance to talk with your instructor
 Random group assignments

Course Units
 Unit 1: Understanding the Intractable
Conflict Problem
 Unit 2: Complexity Oriented
Approaches to Conflict
 Unit 3: Making a Difference
Framework
 Unit 4: Areas Where You Can Make a
Difference

Unit 1: Understanding the
Intractable Conflict Problem
 Millennial Mega-Worries
 Destructive Conflict: A Climate-Change Class Problem
– Making the Case
 Cultural/Institutional Lag and the Era of Hyper-Change
 Walking the Talk: Really Listening across the Partisan
US Political Divide
 The Fitzduff Debate II: the Peace and Justice
Movement Versus the Disappearing Moderate Center
 Course Project Topic Exploration

Unit 2: Complexity Oriented
Approaches to Conflict
 Post-it Note Systems Mapping
 Conflict Mapping Technology Working Session
 Plotting the Why Chains
 Drawing Community Boundaries
 Social Networking: Making the MOOS Concept Work
 Conflict Pathology Brainstorming – Things That Go
Wrong
 Making the Jump from Complicated to Complex
Peacebuilding (Mechanical to Organic Metaphors)

Unit 3 : Making a Difference
Framework
 The Ethics of Peacebuilding: Dos and Don’ts and
Whys
 Mapping Peer Review
 Conflict BINGO
 Using the “Make a Difference” Threaded Text System
 Peace and Conflict Funders Group Massively Parallel
Peacebuilding 2030 Plan
 “Follow the Money” Practicum
 How Do We Know When We Succeeded – Building the
Conceptual Foundation for a Peace and Justice Index
 “All of the Above” Solutions to Inequality

Unit 4: Areas Where You Can Make a
Difference
 “All of the Above” Solutions to Political Violence
 Way of Doing, Role Models
 Designing Required Civil Society Courses for the
University
 Reconciling the Distant past – Truth, Justice, Peace, and Mercy
 Boulder Comprehensive Plan Simulation
 Building the Human Economy
 Security Crisis Response Contest
 World Affairs Week – Project Consultations
 Bright Idea Video Festival
 Elevator Speeches

Course Restructuring

Reading Reflections

Week by Week Plan

PACS 4500 Readings
PACS 4500 Readings
• PACS 2500 Review
• PACS 2500 Important Review

Real World Reading Skills

All Purpose Web Form
For
Reading
Reflections,
Project Topic,
Attendance
Makeups

Course Project Topic

Course Project Part I: Mapping

Course Project Part II: Concept Papers

Major Course Project / Drop Box

Make A Difference Threaded Text http://peacestudies.beyondintractability.org/content/making-difference

Destructive Conflict:
A “Climate Change-class” Problem

Inequitable Inequality http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/opinion/the-year-in-charts.html?_r=0

Political Polarization http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2014/12/PP-2014-06-12-polarization-0-05.png

Political “Gridlock”

Domestic Terrorism http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

The New Class Conflict
Are Democrats the party of the .1%?

The Discarded Middle Class Problem http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2015/01/01/recent-history-in-one-chart

Developing World
New Opportunities

Developed World
Unneeded Workers

Mushroom Hierarchy?

Changing Job Market
65% of the jobs that will be available in 10 years have not even been thought of yet!
http://www.denverpost.com/smart/ci_27292210/future-job-what-humans-do-better-than-robots http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/herman/reports/futurework/execsum.htm

The Human Economy https://hbr.org/2014/11/f rom-the-knowledgeeconomy-to-the-humaneconomy

Open Letter

Beyond Intractability
Collaborative Learning Community

MOOS
Massive Open Online Seminar S
Massive Open Online Course Seminar
No fixed body of knowledge, no tests, no grades – just a collaborative exploration of an extraordinarily important topic.

A Social Network-based Learning
Community

Reading Reflections

Post-Graduation Worries

Havlick’s Principle

Mega Worries
• What are the big problems that have to be solved?
• What are the obstacles to solving them?
• To what extent are these conflict problems?
• What kind of conflict problem?

Opportunities to be Pursued
Problems to be Limited
Positive and negative phraseology

Introductions ~ 1 minute
 Name
 Major
 Career goals
 Plans after graduation
 Peace and conflict issues of greatest interest