W06 Discussion: Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict - PEACE 101 Team 8From PEACE 10111 unread reply.1010 replies.Instead of an individual assignment this week, you will complete two team projects. These projects constitute your Final Exam. They are meant to give your team a chance to demonstrate your mastery of the course concepts. The first part is analyzing a societal conflict.INDIVIDUAL TASKSRead Conflict & Peace Reader, “RefugeesLinks to an external site.” (7 pages). This is a relatively short reading, but the analysis should take significant time and thought. As you study this multifaceted conflict, consider the following questions:Actors – Who are the key groups in the conflict? What are their relative sizes, resources, status, interests, and goals?Positions – What are the demands (and explanations of those demands) that each side makes?Factors – What are the key issues in the conflict? What is at stake (material, psychological, social, structural, etc.) for each side?Dynamics – What is happening in the conflict? What is the state of conflict? (Latent tension? Overt conflict? Power struggle? Violence? Escalation? Deescalation?) How does the conflict fit the conflict cycle? (Encroachment? Resistance? Surrender? Demarcation?)Collusion – How do the participants justify their actions within the conflict? How does the other side see those actions? In which box does each side seem to be?Take notes as you read. In addition to the questions above and consider the questions your team will be discussing (see below).Share your initial notes and insights on the discussion board early.Access the team's shared Google Doc (see instructions below).Contribute to the discussion board (and the Google Doc) to help the team arrive at a consensus about how to describe the conflict and answer the activity's questions.LEADER TASKS — ONLY the current Team Leader completes the following:Initiate the Conversation by making an initial post inviting early and inviting every member of the team to share their individual notes and insights.Help guide the discussion board conversation to arrive at a the best analysis of the conflict.Create a shared Google Doc (following instructions below) where the team can cooperatively write responses to questions below.Oversee the writing of a common response to each question.Submit the final agreed-upon responses by copying and pasting them from the Google Doc into the text box in W06 Final Exam: Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict.CREATING A SHARED GOOGLE DOC — for ONLY the Current Team LeaderGo to the "Collaborations" tab in Canvas, click on "+ Collaboration," and select "Google Drive (LTI 1.3)".Title the new file "Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict".Select your instructor and teammates as collaborators.Click the "Create" button.ACCESSING A SHARED GOOGLE DOC — for ALL team membersGo to the "Collaborations" tab in Canvas.Click on the file entitled "Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict".As a group work on responses to each of the questions below.TEAM INSTRUCTIONSAs a team, write a detailed response to each of the questions below. Check the rubric on W06 Final Exam: Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict to understand how this activity will be graded. As your team works together to answer each of the prompts, please keep the following in mind for this first part of the Final Exam:Make sure you are correctly applying each concept and answering all elements of each prompt.Be sure to provide good details from the conflict to support your analysis.There is no suggested word count for each question, but each should be thoroughly answered.After your team has completed the activity, the leader—and only the leader—submits this activity on I-Learn by copying and pasting it into the Text Entry box in I-Learn. The grade for the activity will automatically be given to every team member.ACTIVITY QUESTIONSDemands & Reasons – What is the most important thing each side wants and their most important rationale for wanting it.Collusion – How has each side engaged in I-It approaches to relationships in this conflict? How are they in collusion with one another?Challenges – Which three (3) elements of the conflict pose the greatest challenges for transformation of conflict? Explain each factor.Opportunities – Which three (3) elements of the conflict present the best opportunities (potential entrance points) for a peacebuilding effort? Explain each element.Third Side Role – Considering the following six Third Side roles—provider, teacher, bridge-builder, equalizer, healer, and witness—which role makes the most sense for a group such as your team to attempt to intervene in the conflict? Explain your reasoning. NOTE: The roles of arbiter, mediator, referee, and peacekeeper are NOT options for this project.

W06 Discussion: Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict - PEACE 101 Team 8From PEACE 10144 unread replies.1010 replies.Instead of an individual assignment this week, you will complete two team projects. These projects constitute your Final Exam. They are meant to give your team a chance to demonstrate your mastery of the course concepts. The first part is analyzing a societal conflict.INDIVIDUAL TASKSRead Conflict & Peace Reader, “RefugeesLinks to an external site.” (7 pages). This is a relatively short reading, but the analysis should take significant time and thought. As you study this multifaceted conflict, consider the following questions:Actors – Who are the key groups in the conflict? What are their relative sizes, resources, status, interests, and goals?Positions – What are the demands (and explanations of those demands) that each side makes?Factors – What are the key issues in the conflict? What is at stake (material, psychological, social, structural, etc.) for each side?Dynamics – What is happening in the conflict? What is the state of conflict? (Latent tension? Overt conflict? Power struggle? Violence? Escalation? Deescalation?) How does the conflict fit the conflict cycle? (Encroachment? Resistance? Surrender? Demarcation?)Collusion – How do the participants justify their actions within the conflict? How does the other side see those actions? In which box does each side seem to be?Take notes as you read. In addition to the questions above and consider the questions your team will be discussing (see below).Share your initial notes and insights on the discussion board early.Access the team's shared Google Doc (see instructions below).Contribute to the discussion board (and the Google Doc) to help the team arrive at a consensus about how to describe the conflict and answer the activity's questions.LEADER TASKS — ONLY the current Team Leader completes the following:Initiate the Conversation by making an initial post inviting early and inviting every member of the team to share their individual notes and insights.Help guide the discussion board conversation to arrive at a the best analysis of the conflict.Create a shared Google Doc (following instructions below) where the team can cooperatively write responses to questions below.Oversee the writing of a common response to each question.Submit the final agreed-upon responses by copying and pasting them from the Google Doc into the text box in W06 Final Exam: Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict.CREATING A SHARED GOOGLE DOC — for ONLY the Current Team LeaderGo to the "Collaborations" tab in Canvas, click on "+ Collaboration," and select "Google Drive (LTI 1.3)".Title the new file "Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict".Select your instructor and teammates as collaborators.Click the "Create" button.ACCESSING A SHARED GOOGLE DOC — for ALL team membersGo to the "Collaborations" tab in Canvas.Click on the file entitled "Final Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict".As a group work on responses to each of the questions below.TEAM INSTRUCTIONSAs a team, write a detailed response to each of the questions below. Check the rubric on W06 Final Exam: Part 1 - Analyzing the Conflict to understand how this activity will be graded. As your team works together to answer each of the prompts, please keep the following in mind for this first part of the Final Exam:Make sure you are correctly applying each concept and answering all elements of each prompt.Be sure to provide good details from the conflict to support your analysis.There is no suggested word count for each question, but each should be thoroughly answered.After your team has completed the activity, the leader—and only the leader—submits this activity on I-Learn by copying and pasting it into the Text Entry box in I-Learn. The grade for the activity will automatically be given to every team member.ACTIVITY QUESTIONSDemands & Reasons – What is the most important thing each side wants and their most important rationale for wanting it.Collusion – How has each side engaged in I-It approaches to relationships in this conflict? How are they in collusion with one another?Challenges – Which three (3) elements of the conflict pose the greatest challenges for transformation of conflict? Explain each factor.Opportunities – Which three (3) elements of the conflict present the best opportunities (potential entrance points) for a peacebuilding effort? Explain each element.Third Side Role – Considering the following six Third Side roles—provider, teacher, bridge-builder, equalizer, healer, and witness—which role makes the most sense for a group such as your team to attempt to intervene in the conflict? Explain your reasoning. NOTE: The roles of arbiter, mediator, referee, and peacekeeper are NOT options for this project.

W02 Discussion: Choosing Leaders - PEACE 101 Team 8From PEACE 10166 unread replies.66 replies.PURPOSETo help everyone have an opportunity to be a weekly team leader. Create a schedule of each team member's turn to be a weekly team leader.TEAM ACTIVITY SCHEDULEW02 Discussion: Choosing Leaders (this discussion)W03 Discussion: Analyzing Destructive ConflictW04 Discussion: Designing a Restorative InterventionW05 Discussion: The Art of MediationW06 Discussion: Final Part 1 - Analyzing the ConflictW06 Discussion: Final Part 2 - Peacebuilding ProposalINDIVIDUAL TASKIn your initial discussion board post, indicate which week you prefer to be a team leader. NOTE: There are two team discussions in Week 6, and thus two opportunities to be a team leader.TEAM TASKSAfter everyone has expressed their preferences, use the discussion board to negotiate any differences.Determine who will be the team leader for this assignment.Discuss how you want to work on future team activities. For example, is there a certain day of each week in which everyone will post their initial thoughts on a particular team activity's readings and prompts? How will you discuss and collaborate on the written responses in a way that everyone will have an opportunity to contribute?

W02 Activity: Applying Theories of ConflictStart AssignmentDue Sunday by 9:59am Points 50 Submitting a text entry box or a website url Attempts 0 Allowed Attempts 3 Available until Mar 24 at 8:59amLearning to overcome our fear of conflict and see its creative potential takes practice. This activity will give you a chance to apply some of the principles you just learned as you study a conflict in which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some LGBTQ rights groups have avoided a destructive cycle or conflict and instead modeled a more creative dynamic.TASKSRead Conflict & Peace Reader, “Religious Liberty & LGBTQ RightsLinks to an external site.” (8 pages).Write a detailed response to each of the questions below. Refer to the rubric to understand how this assignment will be graded.Submit the assignment by copying and pasting it into the text entry box.Review the requirements for the next assignment and formulate a plan to complete them on time.REMEMBERPractice the Wood Principle — if there is any side you don’t agree with, strive to respect, understand, and state its case in the strongest possible way. Also practice the principle Krister Stendahl articulated so well — leave room for “holy envy.”ESSAY QUESTIONSAfter studying the reading, use your knowledge of the key concepts from this module to write detailed answers to each of the following questions:Points of Demarcation – What are the most important boundaries for each side and why are those boundaries important to them? First describe the boundaries that are important to the Church (in about 100 words). Then describe the boundaries that are important to Equality Utah (in about 100 words).Encroachment & Resistance – How does each side encroach across the other side’s boundaries? How does each side resist the encroachment of the other? First describe how groups like Equality Utah encroach over the boundaries that are important to the Church, and how the Church resists (in about 100 words). Then describe how the Church encroaches over the boundaries that are important to Equality Utah, and how Equality Utah resists (in about 100 words).Surrender & Re-Demarcation – How has each side engaged in forms of surrender? In what ways have new boundaries been drawn or old boundaries been reinforced? First describe how the Church has surrendered in the conflict and accepted new boundaries (in about 100 words). Then describe how Equality Utah has surrendered in the conflict and accepted new boundaries (in about 100 words).Conflict Approach & Style – How does each side seem to approach conflict (smog or cocoon)? What is the basic conflict style (avoidance, accommodation, compromise, competition, or problem solving) that each side has adopted in this conflict? First describe the Church's style in this conflict (in about 100 words). Then describe Equality Utah's style in this conflict (in about 100 words).RubricW02 Activity: Applying Theories of ConflictW02 Activity: Applying Theories of ConflictCriteria Ratings PtsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome1. Neutrality & Wood Principle10 ptsCompleteDescriptions of each side's perspective of the conflict are equally represented AND are ones that each side would accept about themselves.8 ptsDevelopingDescriptions of each side's perspective of the conflict are equally represented.6 ptsIncompleteDescriptions of each side's perspective of the conflict are not equally represented.0 ptsAbsentDescriptions contain little or none of each side's perspective.10 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome2. Conflict Cycle Analysis20 ptsCompleteThe analysis correctly connects the conflict to all four aspects of the Conflict Cycle AND identifies details that illustrate moments of creative or destructive choices.16 ptsDevelopingThe analysis correctly connects the conflict to at least three aspects of the Conflict Cycle AND identifies details that illustrate moments of creative or destructive choices.12 ptsIncompleteThe analysis correctly connects the conflict to at least two aspects of the Conflict Cycle OR does not include details that illustrate moments of creative or destructive choices.0 ptsAbsentThe analysis is missing or is incorrect.20 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome3. Conflict Style Analysis10 ptsCompleteThe analysis describes each side's general approach to the conflict AND accurately connects it to a conflict style.8 ptsDevelopingThe analysis describes each side's general approach to the conflict.6 ptsIncompleteThe analysis does not accurately describe each side's general approach to the conflict.0 ptsAbsentThe analysis is missing or does not address the prompt.10 ptsThis criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome4. Writing Style10 ptsCompleteWriting has no detectable patterns of errors that impede understanding of the message.7 ptsDevelopingWriting has errors that impede understanding of the message0 ptsAbsentWriting is incomprehensible.

Which of the following is not one of the objectives for this course?Group of answer choicesStudents will explore key principles, tensions, and dynamics that are fundamental to conflict and teaches students how to engage conflict in collaborative problem-solving ways.Students will increase their capacity for creative conflict transformation in multiple contexts, including families and workplaces as well as local, national, and global communities.Students will become familiar with the core theories and practices related to conflict and peace.Students will gain a heightened awareness for deciding who is right in a conflict.

Disagreements and conflicts naturally emerge within a project team during the life cycle of the project. Participants will disagree over:Multiple select question.project priorities.allocation of resources.quality of work.organizational objectives.