1. PACS 4500 Senior Seminar in Peace 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 burgess@colorado.edu Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

2. Extended Due Dates?

3. Making a Difference Guide

5. Information Sources

6. Making a Difference Guide Preliminary considerations – Distinguishing conflict from disputes – Scale and complexity – Your relationship to the conflict/dispute Conflict assessment and mapping – Traditional conflict assessment – Graphical conflict mapping Core issues and conflict – Justice/needs – Distributional conflicts – Moral conflict – Status/suppression conflict – Identity/security conflicts – Conflict as an engine of social learning Destructive conflict dynamics and constructive response – Misunderstandings – Destructive, partisan framing – Spreading disinformation – Flawed fact-findingEscalation – Violence – Unrightable wrongs – Poor relationships – Lack of a positive future vision – Poor collaborative skills – Overreliance on coercive power – The profiteer, Machiavelli problem – Poor governance Putting it all together complexity-based peace building

7. RISK Personal History Conflict Resolution Consortium Research Information

8. Mirrors

9. Looking at the US the Way We Look at Other Countries http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/12/03/eric_garner_grand_jury_how_would_we_cover_the_de cision_not_to_indict_a_police.html

10. The Paternalism Trap: Practice What You Preach I http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/dec/19/11-of- the-best-aid-parodies?CMP=share_btn_tw

11. Development Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA-ALiizsm8 4:23

12. I want to be an aid worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEp7tBaIa6o

13. Motivations  Guilt washing?  Complaints about  Groupies(glory hounds)?  Resume padding?  Paternalism/arrogance?  Unwillingness to do the work

14. Boundaries of the Human Community  Diasporas  Remittances  Post-Westphalian global community

15. Peace and Security Funders Group

16. Funders

17. Counting  “Things that are counted count”  “Things that can be counted don’t count” and “things that count can’t be counted”

18. Peacebuilding 2.0, 3.0, 4…  Where we stand  What needs to be done  Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater 4.0

19. Peacebuilding Ethics Presentation Peace, Conflict, and Development Career Fair Ethics: Distinguishing Constructive from Ineffectual and Destructive Career Paths Presentation Plan

20. Definition by Example  Good projects – things that really have/will make a positive contribution  Well-meaning but ineffective projects – things that people try but don’t help much  Harmful projects – things that people are doing/have done that made things worse by either  Wasting resources that could better be used in other ways  Being directly harmful

21. Examples  Amnesty International  Land Mine Treaty  South Africa Sanctions  BDS Movement??  MBB  OEF  Others…

22. Definition by Example  Good projects – things that really have/will make a positive contribution  Well-meaning but ineffective projects – things that people try but don’t help much  Harmful projects – things that people are doing/have done that made things worse by either  Wasting resources that could better be used in other ways  Being directly harmful

23. Evaluation Criteria  What makes projects  Successful?  Ineffective?  Harmful?