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Class participation (20% of grade), readings, an individual written POLICY BRIEF for presentation to a UN executive committee or other decision-making body (10 pages; 40%) and a presentation of a group written intervention/PROGRAMME STRATEGY on a case or region that will be covered in the course (8 pages; 40%). The focus of the proposed intervention should either be prevention or peacebuilding/recovery. Throughout the course, students will be required to read and discuss the general issues at hand and their application in specific regions (Central Africa; Central America; Former Yugoslavia). To that end, case-specific readings have been assigned from the beginning and students will be expected to choose one case on which to focus. By the third week of the semester (20th September), students will be required to give a final indication of which regional case group they wish to be part. Students should make this decision as early in the semester as they can, in order to read and prepare for the simulation exercises, group discussions and eventual preparation and presentation of the programme strategy. Students are required to read the assigned readings pertaining to their case and are also advised to keep abreast of the readings on the other cases, although this is not required. Break-out group work based on the cases will form part of the class structure from the beginning and in the latter part of the course, students will be expected to work very closely with their case group in the preparation of a programme strategy. All students must participate in the case-based simulation exercises from weeks 7-12. The 10-page, individually-prepared POLICY BRIEF will be due in week 6 (11th October) and may take as its focus any thematic issue covered in the course, with a specific case-based focus or with a more regional or global focus. If a case-based focus is adopted, any crisis country or potential crisis country may be chosen for this paper. This policy brief should take the following format: 1. Executive Summary including main recommendations for action 2. Consideration of the Issues 3. Recommendations for Action (specifying by which actor or part of the UN) 4. Conclusion The 8-page PROGRAMME STRATEGY will be a group project focusing
on one of the three regions (Central Africa; Central America; Former Yugoslavia),
with each of the three case groups preparing one paper that should be
as practical and policy-oriented as possible. It may take the same format
as the policy brief or it can adopt a programme document format (guidance
on this will be available from the instructors). This paper is officially
due and will be orally presented (groups may decide whether to nominate
one or more presenters) on 6th December. |