Syllabus: INTL 4610/GEOG 4670 and INTL 4820/GEOG 3990
 All participants in the UGA International Conflict Resolution study abroad program in Ecuador will participate in the same course together. Depending on their individual major/ credit needs, students will be enrolled in INTL 4610 (Environmental Politics) and INTL 4820 (International Conflict Resolution Internship--International Affairs) or GEOG 4670/6670 (Geography of Development) and GEOG 3990 (International Conflict Resolution Internship--Geography) for a total of 6 semester credit hours. The program will utilize an integrated combination of field site visits, classroom instruction, video, simulated conflict exercises, research, and internship/practicum experience in order to allow students an intensive immersion experience which will equip them with valuable knowledge and skills that will be useful in a number of career fields.

PRELIMINARY COURSE OUTLINE (Subject to change):



[Transfer into Quito airport on day 1 evening, transport to hotel]—May 11

I. Introduction/Overview—May 12
• Course Packet
• CEMPROC Welcome Packet

II. Threats to Peace/ Causes of War—May 13
• Fearon (1995) “Rationalist Explanations for War”
• Robert Jervis, “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma,”
• Levy, “Theories of Interstate and Intrastate War,”
• Lloyd and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph “Modern Hate: How Ancient Animosities Get Invented,”

III. Social and Environmental Sustainable Development: Poverty and Conflict—May 14
• Jeffrey Sachs, “A Global Family Portrait,”
• Jeffrey Sachs, “Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive”
• Sara Miller Llana, “Free Trade vs. Economic Pain in Ecuador,”
• Yves Cabannes, “Poor or Excluded? Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean,”

IV. Environmental Conflict—May 15
• Robert Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy,”
• Ken Conca, “The Case for Environmental Peacemaking,”
[Delicate Balance: Environmental Conflict in Ecuador video]

V-VII. Trip to Thermal Springs and Cloud Forest in Baeza—May 16-18
• Pugh & Sarmiento, “Selling the Public on Sustainable Watershed Conservation,”
• Trip to environmental disaster area (oil spill affecting water supply) in Papallacta to have a town meeting with local residents; experiential component of environmental conflict module
• International environmental disaster simulation (negotiation) in Baeza

VIII. Ethnic Conflict and Resolution—May 19
• Ted Gurr, “Ethnic Warfare on the Wane,”
• Nicholas Sambanis, “Do Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Civil Wars Have the Same Causes?”
• Recommended: Chaim Kaufman, “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars,”
• Ethnic conflict simulation: Makula indigenous conflict

IX. Conflict Management/Resolution I: International Intervention—May 20
• Pape, “Why Sanctions Don’t Work”
• Paige Fortna, “Does Peacekeeping Keep Peace?”
• Luttwak, “Give War a Chance,”
• Smith, “In Defense of Intervention,”
[Midterm Quiz]

X. Conflict Management/Resolution II: Negotiation—May 21
• James Sebenius, “Six Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators,”
• Fisher & Ury, Getting to Yes
• Negotiation Simulation
[1st journal turn in]

XI. Conflict Management/Resolution III: Mediation—May 22
• Stephen Stedman, “Negotiation and Mediation in Internal Conflict,”
• “Mediation at Camp David”
• Mediation Simulation

XII-XIV. Weekend—May 23-25
• Optional day trip to Otavalo indigenous market on Saturday, May 24

XV. Ethics of Conflict Resolution—May 26
• Evans and Sahnoun, “The Responsibility to Protect,”
• Paul Salem, “A Critique of Western Conflict Resolution,”
• Richard Shell, “Bargaining with the Devil Without Losing Your Soul: Ethics in Negotiation,”

XVI. Ecuador/Peru and Colombia Case Studies—May 27
• Julia Sweig and Michael McCarthy, “Colombia: Staving Off Partial Collapse,”
• Beth A. Simmons, “Forward-Looking Dispute Resolution: Ecuador, Peru, and the Border Issue,”
• Karoline Popp, “Two Plans: Ecuador and Colombia”

XVII. Multi-Party International Mediation Simulation—May 28
-Multi-party mediation simulation (Colombia)
Readings: Colombia simulation instructions

XVIII. Final Exam—May 29
-Exam

XIX-XXI. Weekend—May 30-June 1
Free Weekend

XX. Internship Project Presentations—June 2 and 3
-Student presentations
-Wrap up and evaluations
[second journal turn in]

XI. June 4: Transfer out

Note: Course outline is subject to change.

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