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 , (303) Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess

PACS 4500 Website/Syllabus Anyone Dropping?

Open Letter

Destructive Conflict: A “Climate Change-class” Problem

Private Planning Conference “Off-the-Grid” Conference Center

Open Public Conference

Today’s Focus “Off-the-Grid” Conference Center

Possible Alliance Project

Conference Planning Working Groups? Conference Planning Working Committee

Questions to Consider  What more do you need to know?  What are the big trends that the Conference should consider?  Positive trends to encourage?  Negative trends to limit?  What are the formal and informal decision points leading to those trends that need to be examined for problematic conflict dynamics.  What strategies should be considered for limiting problematic dynamics?  Bottom line: Are poor conflict handling skills really a global warming-class problem?

Issues to Consider Considering Conference Planning Working Committee

Climate Change

Inequitable Inequality Source: Non-partisan Congressional Budget Office

Optimal U.S. Wealth Distribution ariely in press.pdf

The Lance Armstrong Effect In a highly competitive environment, cheating (exploitation of customers, employees, and the environment) is the tie-breaker. The “win” goes to the best cheater. For capitalism to work, government must “level the playing field” by preventing cheating.

Financial System

Political Polarization

Political “Gridlock”

The New Class Conflict

Third World Growth Developed Working Class Stagnation

Lifestyle Choices through our site and I will

Technological Advance edman-if-i-had-a-hammer.html

Cultural Lag W. F. Ogburn

Discrimination #BlackLivesMatter

Fascism Unneeded Workers

Anti-Semitism w.com/articles/ /paris-attacks-revive- israelis-fears

Security Excesses 0:00-3:40 5:50-7:40 16:00-21:00

2015/01/11/opinion/sund ay/nicholas-kristof-race- the-police-and-the- propaganda.html Alienation of the Police

Civil Unrest

Global Peace Index

Fragile States

Fragile States Indicators

US Militarism

Tyranny Kim Jong-un

Revolutionary Exchange of Elites

Violence

Neo-Imperialism / Structural Violence The “Resource Curse” in its many forms.

The Real Problem of Muslim Fundamentalism e_headlines

Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Specter for a Shia/Sunni War

What did I miss?

Conference Planning Working Groups? Conference Planning Working Committee

Questions to Consider  What are the big trends that the Conference should consider?  Positive trends to encourage?  Negative trends to limit?  What are the formal and informal decision points leading to those trends that need to be examined for problematic conflict dynamics.  What strategies should be considered for limiting problematic dynamics?  Bottom line: Are poor conflict handling skills really a global warming-class problem?  Also: Who should be involved? Names? Perspectives? Strategies?

Conference Planning Working Groups? Conference Planning Working Committee Send me an of your notes and I will post them