Transcript PPT Slides -- Sep-22 - Peace and Conflict Studies

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
[email protected]
Copyright © 2014 Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess
Study Questions
To be covered on next test: #35, #40, #41,
#43, #45
Deleted: #23, #52
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Genocide Risk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/21/map-the-risk-of-genocidearound-the-world/?tid=sm_fb
Cultural Differences
Intolerable Moral Differences
http://www.nytime
s.com/2015/09/22
/opinion/ignoringsexual-abuse-inafghanistan.html?
_r=0
Campaign Finance Loopholes
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/election-2016-campaign-moneyrace.html
Federal Government Threat
http://www.gallup.com/poll/185720/half-continue-say-gov-immediate-threat.aspx
Government Shutdown?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/09/22/who-gets-sent-home-if-thegovernment-shuts-down/
The Coming Democratic Crack-Up
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-democratslooming-dilemma/406426/?utm_source=SFFB
Conflict Actors / Interveners
Third Siders
Altruistic Interveners
Profiteers
3rd Party
Self-Interested Interveners
Conflict Arenas
Competing
Interest Groups &
Leaders
Altruistic & Selfish Motives
Mid-Level Activists
Grassroots Citizens
Negotiation
Legal action
Political action
Moral competition
Economic competition
Military confrontation
Competing
Interest Groups &
Leaders
Altruistic & Selfish Motives
Mid-Level Activists
Grassroots Citizens
2nd Party
Stop Fighting
http://stop-fighting.crinfo.org/
Think About a Fight
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Parents?
Roommates?
Siblings?
Teachers?
Community?
When you find yourself
in a hole, stop digging!
A. Hold your ground? Fight back
and protect your interests?
B. Overstate your case, so you
have something to back down
to later?
C. Give in so as not to "make
waves"?
D. Take a "time out" to allow
things to cool down?
E. End the relationship (because
if you fight like this over and
over, it isn't worth the misery)?
A. Stand up for yourself and make
sure the other person knows you
won't tolerate disrespect from
him or her?
B. Apologize for statements said in
anger that you didn't really
mean, and try again to
respectfully explain what you
DID mean?
C. Politely tell the other person how
their attacks made you feel?
D. Forgive and forget -- and move
on?
A. Say it again, because the other
person probably just wasn't
listening or didn't understand?
B. Listen to what the other person
has to say first, and then
respond?
C. Talk about yourself -- don't talk
about them?
D. Talk around the problem -- don't
focus on it directly? That’s too
inflammatory.
A. Base the plan on agreed-to
principles of fairness and justice?
B. Agree to talk whenever someone
is upset and come up with a
collaborative solution?
C. Agree that one person will be the
"authority figure", though that
person will listen to the other
person's arguments and
complaints?
D. Agree to negotiate everything?
A. Try to convince your partner to do
what you want? (You need to
stand up for yourself.)
B. Agree with your partner and do
what he/she wants? (It’s not
worth the fight.)
C. Try to find out what your partner's
underlying interests are (Why
does he/she take the position that
she does?)
D. Try to trade off with your partner?
(You do what he/she does
sometimes and he/she does what
you want other times.)
A.Avoid talking about the
issue?
B.Try to collect more facts so
that you can persuade the
other person that you are
right?
C.Try to get someone else to
help you resolve the
problem?
D.Agree to disagree, but work
to understand the other
side?
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2004 / 2008
Political Manipulation of the Culture
Divide
Political Selection
 Political selection
 “Survival of the fittest”
 Survival of the most
powerful
 If one side does it the
other has to do it
 Since they all do it, it’s a
non issue
 Folks who don’t do it, you
never hear from
Charles Darwin
Hidden Persuaders II
http://www.economist.com/node/21530076
Wag the Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNo0BicRM8k
Higman / Lasswell Propaganda I
Stimulae: Events, Ads, Speeches
Attitudes
Individual Thought Processes
Opinions: Votes, Support
Higman / Lasswell Education II
Stimulae: Events, Ads, Speeches
Attitudes
Individual Thought Processes
Opinions: Votes,
Support
Higman / Lasswell Propaganda III
Stimulae: Events, Ads, Speeches
Attitudes
Individual Thought Processes
Opinions: Votes, Support
Higman / Lasswell Propaganda IV
Stimulae: Events,
Ads, Speeches
Attitudes
Individual Thought Processes
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Opinions: Votes,
Support
Focus Groups
Debates as Sound Bite Contests
Focus Groups
 Imagine yourself
as an undecided
voter
 Would each
soundbite make
you more or less
likely to vote for
someone.
Dismal Theorem of Political Science
In democratic societies,
the skills that it takes to
get elected are, in many
ways, antithetical to the
skills that are needed
one elected.
Kenneth Boulding
GOP Debate Sound Bite Clips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSsKGBIuFW8
8 min
FactCheck.org
Al Frakin
True,
False,
or
Weasel
Game
If the Facts Aren’t on Your Side,
Attack the Wonks / Fact Checkers
Or, get your
own fact
checker
“We’re not going to let our campaign be
dictated by fact-checkers”
How do you encourage and support quality fact
checking?
Review Questions
John Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWX6N-eopOc
12 min – no music