PACS 4500

Senior Seminar inPeace and Conflict Studies

Section 001

Guy Burgess

Map Project Questions?

Simplified Mapping?

Occam's Razor

Conspiracy Theory Syndrome

Put Yourself in the other guy’s shoes

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/03/mh370-electrical-fire/

Culture Info Graphic

http://www.dramafever.com/news/eastern-and-western-attitudes-about-life-explained-in-18-simple-infographics/

TV and Birth Rates

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/opinion/kristof-tv-lowers-birthrate-seriously.html?hp&rref=opinion

Occupy Denver

http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_25378511/occupy-denvers-shameful-use-free-speech#axzz2wVZiEjF5

Medicaid Protests

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/us/protest-disrupts-georgia-senate-session-on-bill-to-block-medicaid-expansion.html

The Civil War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceRg_rxXQ_E

Kerry, & Israel, Palestine

Finding/Understanding Opportunities

Follow the Money

Opportunity Search Strategy

Identify organizations and projects working in your areas of interest that may offer job opportunities

Identify potential funding sources for projects that you (or your organization) may wish to initiate

Learn how to write and submit proposals Develop a comprehensive image of the full scope of

peace and conflict practice Situate your goals and activities in the context of the

work of others Identify potential collaborators Identify organizations doing related work may be a

source of inspiration and ideas Time consuming process with economies of scale –

find partners!

Step #1:

Access a Major Funding Database

http://infoedglobal.com/solutions/grants-contracts/spin-funding-opportunities/

http://pivot.cos.com/about

< Free “On Campus”

Step #2:

Become an Advanced “Power User”

Note: These systems are undergoing major changes and improvements. While the system illustrated here is being replaced (and the screenshots offered here do not match), the general strategy is still workable and make sense.

Step #3:

Master Advanced Search

Step #4:

Find and Understand Keyword System

Step #5:

Identify Search Terms

Start with your plain English “buzzwords” for describing your areas of subject and geographic interest Also include type of funding program

Use the search system’s keyword thesaurus to try to identify the terms that it uses for the same subjects

Run some searches and identify a few of the most promising results and look for related search terms and buzzwords and add those to your search term list

Run a full search

Step #6:

Review Results

Step #7:

Investigate Promising Programs

Be willing to think in new and creative ways and adapt your ideas to the funding environment

Step #8:

Investigate Funder Websites

Understand Grantmaking Process

Understand Funder Interests

Find Grants Awarded

Investigate Grants of Interest

Google Projects of Interest

Think About Next Steps

Network with promising projects Pursue collaboration Seek jobs

Adapt good ideas to other contexts Write proposals for “fill in the gaps”

projects

Proposal Writing

A worthwhile and lucrative skill to develop

Sources of assistance: ADD LINKS TO HINTS

501(c)3

JAMS Foundation

Current Areas of Interest

Conflict Resolution Education: In order to promote the inclusion of conflict prevention and resolution in classroom instruction and school programs, the Foundation supports training of teachers and school administrators, as well as the development and distribution of curricular and teaching materials that introduce students to dispute resolution concepts and training.

Peer Mediation: Peer mediation programs in schools have proven effective in reducing violence and teaching peaceful negotiation skills to our nation’s youth. The Foundation may provide grants to support the preparation, printing, and distribution of peer mediation training materials on a national level.

Community Mediation: The Foundation provides resources and support for community mediation programs and national distribution of community mediation training materials.

Professional Education: The Foundation supports the advancement of ADR through improvements to professional education and will consider grants to promote innovations in teaching ADR or to stimulate interest and excellence through awards and recognitions.

Innovations in Resolving Disputes and Making Dispute Resolution Services More Available: Innovations in community and non-profit organizational delivery of dispute resolution services, particularly to underserved populations, is encouraged and supported by the Foundation.

International Dispute Resolution Programs: The Foundation may award grants to U.S.-based organizations that provide dispute resolution assistance in transitioning and developing countries.

How to Apply for a Grant

Purpose of potential request

How the proposal relates to the Foundation’s current areas of interest

Why the proposal is unique and why is it needed

Changes that will occur as a result of funding the proposal

Plans for evaluating the project's success (i.e., how will you know that the project’s goals have been met?)

The organization’s history, mission, and goals

Name(s) and qualifications of designated project director(s)

Other organizations engaged in work similar to the proposed project

Anticipated project budget, including amount of funding sought from the Foundation

Other funding sources for the project and amounts applied for, received, or committed

If intended as an ongoing program, plans for sustaining the program

Address Funder Questions

Keep Things Short, Use Bullets

Budget

• Personnel Expenses• Project Directors / Key Individuals -- Listed by name, FTE, base salary, and time

period – contractual obligation

• Graduate students – no name salary, tuition-waiver, FTE, time period

• Undergraduate students – salary, tuition-waiver, FTE, time period

• Others

• Fringe Benefits• Listed by category, fixed percentage (28%-1%)

• Expenses• Travel

• Equipment

• Contractors

• Etc.

• Indirect Costs• 0-50%

• Matching Funds

• Dates

Expenditure Category-Oriented Budget

Task-Oriented Budget

Massively Parallel Peacebuilding

?What Would You Advise?

Middle School &Mamma Grizzly Syndrome

Mike Rosen vs. Educrats

• Tenure• Evaluation /

retention / seniority• Self-Esteem

Teaching• Self-Discovery• Politically correct

teaching

Dispute

Teacher Union: Lobbying for More Support for Education

Dispute

Fairview High School:80 Valedictorians!

With Perfect Grades

Southern Hills Our Middle School

School Improvement Team vs.Faculty & Principal

PromotingTougher

StandardsOK

Dispute

SIT President Conflict Style:Authority Not Collaboration

Dispute

Hostile Takeover

What Would You Advise?

?

“Save Our School” Neighborhood Meeting

Dispute

Lobby School Board

Charter School Movement

Open Enrollement

Summit Middle School

For the Best Students

The Best and

the

Brightest

Special Needs

Big Fear Cherry Picking Effect

State Board of Education

Joint “Time Share” Campus

Dispute

School Funding Follows Students

What Would You Advise?

?

Columbine Elementary Exercise I

BVSD Open enrollment policy

Columbine elementary 82% Latino 78% low income About 70% English

Language Learners 51% “open enroll out”

(30% average) Foothills elementary

90.5% Caucasian 6% low income

Columbine Elementary Exercise II

Adequate Yearly Progress on CSAP standardized tests Failure leads to some form of “corrective

action” Competing tests

DRA 57% fifth graders at or above grade level

CSAP 20% fifth graders passed Debate about the importance of language

proficiency

What Would You Advise?

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Zoom Out Education Conflict at National Scale

No Child Left Behind

Teaching to the Test

Teach for America

Giving Up on Students

Michelle Rhee vs. Diane Ravitch

Teachers vs. Policy Makers

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/teachers-and-policy-makers-troubling-disconnect/

The “Work Together”

“All of the Above”Solution

What Would You Advise?

?

Columbine High School

Pop Tart Guns

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_25378510/rosen-floridas-pop-tart-bill-would-fix-foolish#axzz2wVZiEjF5

What Would You Advise?

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