Faculty Partners:
 
Please encourage your students to join teams that are now being put formed.
 
 
 
Formally students will be entering the final project phase of this
course.  The purpose of this final project is to serve to pull the
course together in such a way that student's feel closure.  Throughout
this semester students have explored various forms of conflict.  Now the
question is what can be done to resolve these conflicts.  Students at
here at Miami, Will Patterson, Poland, and elsewhere will be
participating in conflict resolution teams.  Specifically, two member
teams from each university will team up with 4 other students (no more
than 2 from a particular insitutition) to explore in depth a particular
conflict, identify conflict resolution attempts, assess both the
conflict and previous conflict resolution statements, and ultimately
develop a conflict resolution statement for a particular ethnic/racial
conflict.
 
    This conflict resoultion statement, representing the team efforts of
all members of the team, will have the following structure:
 
    a) history of the conflict
    b) identification and analysis of conflict resolution statements
(found for example on the Carter Conflict resolution page)
    c) the formulation of a conflict resolution statement for this
specific conflict
 
    Students in part A will identify the sources of the conflict, the
major players in the conflict (both locally and externally), and how
this conflict has played out through history.
In part B..students will (through the resoucrs provided) identify,
summarize,and assess the adequacy of various conflict resolution
statements that have been previously offered for this particular
conflict.  They, in colloboration with each other and with the
assistance of their professor, will attempt to identify what aspects of
these previous conflict resolution statements are viable, what types of
obstacles were present which precluded the resolution of the conflict,
and suggest how these obstacles can be overcome.
 
and C..Given A and B above, formulate a conflict resolution statement
which identifies the processes, incentives, and sanctions neccessary (or
suggested) that will resolve this particular conflict.
 
All of this must be done within the next four weeks..its not much
time..but experience informs us that it is enough time.  Already my
students have been paired off and will be contacting yours to see if
they can constitute a viable team.  Please encourage your students to
take the challenge.
 
let me know what you think.. thanks..and now onward to the final phase..
 
rodneycoates