 |
This is an invitation to join in a conversation about a possible APT for 2013-2014, with Arthur Romano and Sara Cobb. We would like to brainstorm and gauge interested from students before moving forward.
There is, at present, a growing literature on counternarratives that addresses the dynamics of power in conflicts through the analysis of master and counter narratives. This literature comes from a wide variety of knowledge bases and areas of action including; social movements, NGOs, non-profits, and the development and intelligence spheres; as well as many of the social sciences. The term counter-narrative is a growing buzzword in articles exploring topics as far ranging as gun control, globalization, capitalism, and even liberal peacebuilding. As this term becomes more and more common, a wider variety of organizations see the value in understanding the counternarratives at work in a given situation and employing strategies to forward their own discourse.
In the CAR field there is growing interest in examining the power of those counternarratives to interrupt, disrupt and shift colonizing and hegemonic discourses and to understand pedagogical strategies for doing so. This APT seeks then to understand this knowledge gap and create a program that translates the existing knowledge about counternarrative into actionable knowledge for conflict resolution practitioners.
Location: 550
Time: 5:30
Date: Tuesday, April 16th
Possible Learning Objectives
• To gain a thorough and critical understanding of counter-narratives, across an interdisciplinary literature
• To learn how to do case study research;
• To develop 6 case studies that explore the effective use of counternarratives in conflict analysis and resolution;
• To learn how to write role plays to support experiential learning about counternarratives in conflict processes;
• To develop 6 simulations, role plays, that enable people to experience the role of counternarratives in conflict and its transformation.
• To learn how to conduct a case study approach to training using role plays.
• To run 5 simulations, three each semester for the S-CAR community, hosted by the Center for the Study of Narrative and Conflict
• To create a training program for a specific audience – e.g. the intelligence community, the development community, activists engaged in Social Movements, etc. – and present this training program