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PACS 2500

PACS 2500. Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies Guy Burgess. Opinion Assignment #1, Sep 13 8am. The amount of the opinion reading done.  "B-level" target: two highlighted articles Length of the opinion assignment.  "B-level" target: 450 words

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PACS 2500

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  1. PACS 2500 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies Guy Burgess

  2. Opinion Assignment #1, Sep 13 8am • The amount of the opinion reading done. "B-level" target: two highlighted articles • Length of the opinion assignment. "B-level" target: 450 words • Writing quality. "B-level" target: well written, and proofed essay • Persuasiveness. "B-level" target: reasonably compelling arguments • Opinion. "B-level" target: focus on opinion not "book report" • Conflict Dynamics.  "B-Level" Target: Include Ideas for more constructively approaching the conflict

  3. Opinion Assignment Goal 2:45 http://vimeo.com/3829682

  4. Readings

  5. Next: Understanding Red/Blue Divide http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-right-us/

  6. Next: Moving Beyond Intractability

  7. Happiness http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/10/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-happiest-and-least-happy-countries/?hpid=z5

  8. Boulder Flooding

  9. 9/11 What have we learned?

  10. Gun Control, Recall Election

  11. Friday’s Syria Vote • Section 2: The President is authorized, subject to subsection (b), to use the Armed Forces of the United States as he determines to be necessary and appropriate in a limited and tailored manner against legitimate military targets in Syria, only to: (1) respond to the use of weapons of mass destruction by the Syrian government in the conflict in Syria; (2) deter Syria’s use of such weapons in order to protect the national security interests of the United States and to protect our allies and partners against the use of such weapons; and (3) degrade Syria’s capacity to use such weapons in the future. • Ground Troops “Limitation.”  Section 3 of the draft provides: “The authority granted in section 2 does not authorize the use of the United States Armed Forces on the ground in Syria for the purpose of combat operations. • http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/09/the-senate-draft-aumf-for-syria-is-narrower-than-the-administrations-draft/ • For AUMF = 17 32% / 16 31% • Against AUMK = 36 68% / 35 69% • Undecided = 8

  12. Rocky Mountain Arsenal / Gore-Tex

  13. Obama & Russian Proposal BATNA -- Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement

  14. UN War Crimes Report http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/world/middleeast/united-nations-panel-cites-evidence-of-war-crimes-in-syria.html?_r=0

  15. Needed: A Mandela http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/opinion/friedman-threaten-to-threaten.html?hp

  16. The Economic Crisis Part 1 Distributing the Pie

  17. Where Would You Prefer to Live? B A C http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20ariely%20in%20press.pdf

  18. Relative Preferences

  19. Inequality Video • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM

  20. Reich: The Truth About the Economy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE

  21. GINI Index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_World_CIA_Report_2009.png

  22. The Economic Crisis Part 2 Expanding Shrinking the Pie

  23. Unemployment by Age http://floatingpath.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/US-Unemployment-Rate-by-Age-April-2013.png

  24. Unemployment by Race http://floatingpath.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Unemployment-Rate-by-Race.png

  25. Joblessness Index http://www.tradersnarrative.com/unemployment-throws-cold-water-on-rate-hike-talk-3446.html

  26. Long Term Employment Trends http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224007222337.htm

  27. Employment Percentage

  28. Return to Full Employment?

  29. Eurozone Unemployment http://econographics.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/eurozone-country-unemployment-rates.jpg

  30. More Statistics Be moved to tears http://www.bls.gov/data/

  31. How Did We Get In This Fix? Understand this! Take economics classes and demand answers! Resist simplistic, “good guy / bad guy” explanations

  32. A Short History of Financial Euphoria John Kenneth Galbraith

  33. Zero vs. Positive Sum Societies

  34. The “Invisible Hand” Became an “Invisible Fist” Policies of social organization based purely on self-interest (and greed) have failed! They must be balanced with civic-minded policy making. Adam Smith Kenneth Boulding

  35. 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.

  36. A Competing View: Governments Should Not Interfere with Free Markets Ayn Rand Alan Greenspan

  37. Ayn Rand http://front.moveon.org/is-ayn-rand-really-the-person-republicans-want-to-imitate/?rc=daily.share

  38. 1930's Great Depression

  39. Heavily Regulated Financial Economy

  40. De-Regulation http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jan2011/db20110120_138711.htm

  41. Lehman Brothers

  42. Ponzi / Madoff Bubble

  43. CNBC -- Helping to Drive the Bubble 8:29 min Ponzi Bubble http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-march-4-2009/cnbc-financial-advice

  44. The Great Economic Crisis: How Did It Happen?

  45. Untold Story: the Human Impact • http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07182008/watch.htmlstart at 4 minutes – runs 12 minutes

  46. Dodd-Frank

  47. Elizabeth Warren http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/19335-the-american-people-know-that-the-system-is-rigged

  48. Robert Reich http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/19327-happy-anniversary-lehman-brothers-we-never-learn

  49. Occupy Wall Street

  50. Teddy Roosevelt

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