PACS 4500

Senior Seminar inPeace and Conflict Studies

Section 001

Guy Burgess

Maps?

Follow the Frog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iIkOi3srLo

Power Grid Vulnerability

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/13/289779344/report-small-scale-attacks-could-cause-national-blackout

Murray Controversy

Moynihan Report

Family, Race, and Class

http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/2013/01/family-structure-class-sawhill

• Race• Gender• Economic

opportunity

End of Men

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/308135/

Internet of Things

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-anti-capitalism.html?from=opinion

Billionaire Science

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/science/billionaires-with-big-ideas-are-privatizing-american-science.html?from=homepage

Ukraine

Crimea & Ukraine

Two things to watch as you consider your answers: The long view:• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2nklduvThs

The short view:• http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/

100000002771613/crimeans-at-the-crossroads.html?smid=pl-share

Donor’s Conference

Donor’s Conference

Community Relations Service

http://www.civilrightsmediation.org/

Community Relations Service

Racial Conflict Scenario

Columbine Elementary Exercise I

BVSD Open enrollment policy Columbine elementary

82% Latino 78% low income About 70% English Language Learners 51% “open enroll out” (30% average)

Foothills elementary 90.5% Caucasian 6% low income

Columbine Elementary Exercise II

Adequate Yearly Progress on CSAP standardized tests Failure leads to some form of “corrective

action” Competing tests

DRA 57% fifth graders at or above grade level

CSAP 20% fifth graders passed Debate about the importance of language

proficiency

Columbine Elementary Exercise III Parties

Columbine parents Latino Caucasian

School accountability advocates Superintendent Department of Education School Accountability

Program Teachers Department of Education Civil Rights Division Rocky Mountain Center for Community Problem-

Solving Latino Rights Fund

Columbine Elementary Exercise IV Better Boulder Foundation

The Foundation has issued a “Request for Proposals” for broadly supported efforts to negotiate a consensus resolution of the Columbine Elementary School dispute.

Civil Rights Advocacy Fund The fund has indicated that it will support

efforts to promote the rights of Latino students and parents that they believe are likely to be successful.