My students are discussing the possibility of participating in the projects.
However, we have several questions:
    1. What is the procedure for selecting a group/project to participate in?
    2. How do you determine the distribution of projects tasks, i.e. who takes
section A, B or C?
    3. What is the timetable for receiving parts A and/or B?
    4. How long must each section be?
 
If we receive favorable responses to these questions, I am sure that several
students from the Social Conflict class at the Philadelphia College for
Textiles and Science will be participating in the group projects.
 
Dereic Dorman
 
Rodney D. Coates wrote:
 
> 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