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1 PACS 2500 Introduction to 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 End of Semester

3 Terrorism https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/20/the-threat-is-already-inside-uncomfortable-truths-terrorism-isis/

4 Paris Climate Conference

5 Global Population https://populationspeakout.org/

6 Syrian Negotiations https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-surprise-in-syrias-civil-war-that-could-be-bad-news-for-the-islamic- state/2015/11/20/83fe3fd8-8fc6-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-alt1- h%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

7 Immigration Trends https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/study-finds-more-mexicans-leaving-the-us-than- coming/2015/11/19/d38a040c-8edf-11e5-934c-a369c80822c2_story.html

8 The Promise of Nonviolence Justice without Violence

9 Nonviolence

10 Gene Sharp – Power of Ideas http://www.aeinstein.org/

11 Non-Violence Principled? vs. Pragmatic?

12 Non-Violence Against a Morally Limited Adversary? Against an Immoral Adversary?

13 April 6 Youth Movement http://video.pbs.org/video/1811459812/

14 King & 1963 March on Washington

15 Eyes on the Prize http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZWdDI_fkns

16 1963 March on Washington http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7s30w FCqlw

17 “I Have A Dream” Speech Elements  Common Moral Appeal  Urgency for Action  Reassurance and Commitment to Nonviolence  Specific demands  Hopeful Vision A “blueprint” for contemporary advocacy?

18 ML King “ I Have a Dream” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_YBplucfuk

19 Common Values: “Magnificent Words of the Declaration of Independence”

20 “Fierce Urgency of Now”

21 “Whirlwinds of Revolt” / Nonviolence

22 “When the Negro Be Satisfied?” Specific Demands

23 The Vision: “I Have a Dream”

24 Contested History: Eyes on the Prize http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/index.html

25 The Great Society Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act

26 War on Poverty

27 Black Power

28 Black Panthers http://www.npr.org/2015/09/23/442801731/director-chronicles-the-black-panthers-rise-new-tactics- were-needed

29 King Assassination 1968

30 Civil Rights Riots of the 1960’s

31 Busing

32 War over the War on Poverty Race- based politics

33 President Obama

34 Contemporary Segregation http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/opinion/blow-the-self- sort.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0

35 Racial Gap

36 Whites Just Don’t Get It http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/opinion/sunday/when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part- 4.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

37 Turning Blue States Red http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/who-turned-my-blue-state-red.html

38 Voters/Non-Voters http://www.nytimes.co m/2015/11/22/opinion /sunday/who-turned- my-blue-state- red.html

39 Student Protests http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/ 2015/11/brown-universitys-100-million- plan-to-be-more- inclusive/416886/?utm_source=SFFB

40 Will: “Political Correctness” Critique https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/higher-education-brought- low/2015/11/25/a79f118e-92d6-11e5-b5e4-279b4501e8a6_story.html

41 1960’s vs. 2010’s https://www. washingtonp ost.com/post everything/w p/2015/08/24 /i-was-a-civil- rights- activist-in- the-1960s- but-its-hard- for-me-to- get-behind- black-lives- matter/

42 Gold / Purple Divide Have-Nots Have More Have It All Have-Less

43 Persuadables Reluctant Persuadables Traders Incorrigibles Forcing Power Trading Power Persuasive Power Column Size Indicates Relative Population Size Goal: Most Powerful Power Strategy Mix Optimal Power Distribution

44 Backlash Trap The number of "new enemies" created in the process of defeating an "old enemy”

45 Have/Have-Not Complexity Problems at the Top Natural Selection New Class Differences Superstar Effect Money Addiction Boundless Greed Rationalization Zero-Sum Thinking Concentration of Wealth Discrimination Problems at the Bottom Family Disintegration Withdrawal from the Workforce Low Educational Expectations Scarcity Thinking Crime Estimate the Percentage of “Explained Variance” associated with each factor. Systemic Problems Prison Industrial Complex Poverty Capitalism Cheating Advantages Automation Technological Advance Kludgeocracy Employer's Market (Fear Economy) Lack of Compassion Underperforming Schools Tax Structure Red Tape Regulations

46 What Would King Do Today?


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