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Post-War Peace Building
Posted 3:28PM - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Abstract:
During 2005/6, Dr Carolyn Shaw, the project leader, worked with Roni Linser CEO of Fablusi, an online role play specialist company based in Melbourne, Australia and Dr David Mendeloff at Carleton University, Ottawa, to provide a role play simulation for political science students at WSU and Carleton. This enriched the experience of students at both universities. Over the summer, Dr Shaw’s development team has made many enhancements to the online simulation ready for the next class in the Fall.
This course students to the challenges that the international community faces, when responding to post-conflict environments around the world. It will currently involves sister courses at WSU and Carleton University, Ottawa Canada. Later, it will be extended to include more sister classes in South Africa, the UK and Australia. The development team comprises Dr Shaw, Dr Mendeloff (Carleton), Roni Linser (Fablusi), Dr Kay Gibson (COE), Julie Bath (COE), Indika McCampbell (MRC) and Tim Cathcart-Black (Carleton).
The primary aim is for students to understand how states and groups can best prevent war from reoccurring. Students study a variety of conflicts and assess the durability of peace agreements, the importance of democratic institutions, and the impact of foreign intervention on peace building. The students will interact using the Internet and will participate in a web-based role-play simulation developed using the software tool SimPlay, developed by the Fablusi company based in Melbourne, Australia. In the web-based simulation, students experience the dynamics of the negotiation process in a post-conflict scenario, and develop a plan of action to rebuild a war torn country. Students are assigned roles based on the wide range of actors engaged in post-conflict reconstruction (major states, lesser states, UN agencies, NGOs, local actors and local government officials). Students prepare for this simulation by researching a particular conflict and issue area (example: democratization, infrastructure, law and order, education, health services, etc).
Posted 3:28PM - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
| Year : | 2006 |
| Status : | In Development |
| Seed Grant Amount : | TBA |
| External Grant(s) : | - |
| Number of Local Students : | 0 |
| Number of Overseas Students : | 0 |
| Faculty : | TBA |
| Team : | TBA |
| College(s) : | TBA |
| Department(s) : | TBA |
| Program(s) : | TBA |
| Course(s) : | TBA |
| Institution(s) : | TBA |
| Publication(s) : | - |
Abstract:
During 2005/6, Dr Carolyn Shaw, the project leader, worked with Roni Linser CEO of Fablusi, an online role play specialist company based in Melbourne, Australia and Dr David Mendeloff at Carleton University, Ottawa, to provide a role play simulation for political science students at WSU and Carleton. This enriched the experience of students at both universities. Over the summer, Dr Shaw’s development team has made many enhancements to the online simulation ready for the next class in the Fall.
This course students to the challenges that the international community faces, when responding to post-conflict environments around the world. It will currently involves sister courses at WSU and Carleton University, Ottawa Canada. Later, it will be extended to include more sister classes in South Africa, the UK and Australia. The development team comprises Dr Shaw, Dr Mendeloff (Carleton), Roni Linser (Fablusi), Dr Kay Gibson (COE), Julie Bath (COE), Indika McCampbell (MRC) and Tim Cathcart-Black (Carleton).
The primary aim is for students to understand how states and groups can best prevent war from reoccurring. Students study a variety of conflicts and assess the durability of peace agreements, the importance of democratic institutions, and the impact of foreign intervention on peace building. The students will interact using the Internet and will participate in a web-based role-play simulation developed using the software tool SimPlay, developed by the Fablusi company based in Melbourne, Australia. In the web-based simulation, students experience the dynamics of the negotiation process in a post-conflict scenario, and develop a plan of action to rebuild a war torn country. Students are assigned roles based on the wide range of actors engaged in post-conflict reconstruction (major states, lesser states, UN agencies, NGOs, local actors and local government officials). Students prepare for this simulation by researching a particular conflict and issue area (example: democratization, infrastructure, law and order, education, health services, etc).
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