Routes to Resolve M.E. Conflct

1 Credit · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This will be run as a simulation exercise, focused on the role of practical institution building work/efforts between Israelis, Palestinians, and international actors in public and private sectors across key areas that affect peoples’ lives such as — water, energy, and related economic development. Participating students may gain a perspective on the impact on resolving, mitigating, or exacerbating conflict that such work may have, depending on how it is handled. This dynamic should be applicable to other conflict situations. Everyone will have an assigned role – the instructor will make the assignments at the beginning of the first session. Students will be provided with sufficient background material, and opportunity to absorb it, and briefing in class, to step into roles in real time. Students will be expected to turn in a brief memo (3-4 pages double-spaced), in the voice of assigned roles, as a follow up to the exercise.