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

3. Open Letter

4. Destructive Conflict: A “Climate Change-class” Problem

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

6. Open Public Conference

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

8. Possible Alliance Project

9. Conference Planning Working Groups? Conference Planning Working Committee

10. 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?

11. Issues to Consider Considering Conference Planning Working Committee

12. Climate Change

13. Inequitable Inequality Source: Non-partisan Congressional Budget Office http://1.usa.gov/KMX1Ci

14. Optimal U.S. Wealth Distribution http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton ariely in press.pdf

15. 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.

16. Financial System http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/01/07/now-we-know-jpmorgan-chase-worse-enron

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

18. Political “Gridlock”

19. The New Class Conflict

20. Third World Growth Developed Working Class Stagnation http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2015/01/01/recent-history-in-one-chart

21. Lifestyle Choices http://www.heritage.org/childpoverty/united-statesthehttp://www.heritage.org/childpoverty/united-statesthe through our site and I will

22. Technological Advance http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/opinion/sunday/fri edman-if-i-had-a-hammer.html

23. Cultural Lag W. F. Ogburn

24. Discrimination #BlackLivesMatter

25. Fascism Unneeded Workers

26. Anti-Semitism http://www.bloombergvie w.com/articles/2015-01- 13/paris-attacks-revive- israelis-fears

27. Security Excesses http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/are-we-safer/ 0:00-3:40 5:50-7:40 16:00-21:00

28. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2015/01/11/opinion/sund ay/nicholas-kristof-race- the-police-and-the- propaganda.html Alienation of the Police

29. Civil Unrest http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

30. Global Peace Index

32. Fragile States

33. Fragile States Indicators

35. US Militarism

36. Tyranny Kim Jong-un

37. Revolutionary Exchange of Elites

38. Violence https://ia902500.us.archive.org/24/items/dbq01_desktop_en/dbq01_desktop_en.pdf

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

40. The Real Problem of Muslim Fundamentalism http://www.ted.com/talks/karima_bennoune_the_side_of_terrorism_that_doesn_t_mak e_headlines

41. Weapons of Mass Destruction

42. The Specter for a Shia/Sunni War

43. What did I miss?

44. Conference Planning Working Groups? Conference Planning Working Committee

45. 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?

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