Department of Political Science Faculty of Social Studies Masaryk University Joštova 10, Brno Czech republic Syllabus for the course „Cross-cultural negotiation” Lecturers: PhDr. Věra Stojarová, PhD Organization of the course The course is aimed at the students enrolled in the Political Science programme. The course is valued with 7 credits. The course consists of 4 seminar sessions while the pivotal point in the course play the simulations. Contents and objectives The students will be confronted with the series of case studies. Negotiating is a comprehensive training tool for executives, officials and others engaged in cross-cultural negotiation. The students will learn on selected case show and with whom it is apropriate to negotiate any given issue across cultures. The negotiation will also open an opportunity to deeply understand selected cross-cultural conflicts. Coexistence draws from numerous cases to illustrate what countries can do after violent ethnic conflict subsides to rebuild society. 1. Provide accurate historical and background information on the conflict and peacemaking efforts, and provide opportunities for students to engage with this history in a direct and realistic context 2. Stimulate and motivate student learning through active participation, as well as reading, writing, class discussion, and other forms of analysis and expression 3. Build students’ negotiation and conflict management skills by asking them to take on the roles of participants seeking to resolve a conflict through negotiation, with support and feedback as they prepare, conduct, and debrief the role play 4. Challenge students to find the links between the conflict presented in the role play and the conflict resolution steps presented in the Workable Peace Framework, and to apply them to other conflicts in history and in their own lives Grading: Your final grade will be based on: - Drafting the papers - max. 16 points - Taking part in the simulations – max. 16 points - Test – max 18 points Therefore 4 points per paper and 4 per ACTIVE participation. Final classification will be made following these grades on the scale: A. 50 - 45 points B. 44 - 41points C. 40 - 38 points D. 37 - 35 points E. 34 - 32 points F. 31 and less points Students will pass the course, if he/she reaches 32 points out of 50 maximum. Organisation of the course: Students have to prepare for each seminar while drafting a paper. The paper MUST be inserted into respective folder into the information system PRIOR the session. Later papers will NOT be accepted. The presence of active students is during seminars obligatory. Papers The paper should have approx. 5 pages (max. 5) outlining history of the conflict. Avoid copy and paste, use as many sources as you can and your own words. Upload the paper into the information system. Course Structure: Cross-cultural negotiation is designed as a simple and effective way to introduce students to the workings of a crisis/security forum in cross-cultural environment. Everyone who participates represents, alone or in a small group, representative of disputed party making the negotiation as realistic as possible. The delegate represents the opinions of the disputed party that he/she is representing and not his/her own. The students are obliged to draft a position paper before the seminar. The aim is to to try to create an agreement with the other groups in which you are better off than you would be if you tried to meet your needs unilaterally (without an agreement). The materials used in the course have been obtained from Harvard Law School – Programme on Negotiation. Bloc A 11.3. 2016 9:45- 15:00 Room 41 Topic: Religion and Nationalism in Northern Ireland Reading: Workable Peace. Religion and Nationalism in Northern Ireland. Harward Law School. Programme on Negotiation. (10 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097075/historical_background_n_ireland.p df Holloway, D. Understanding the Northern Ireland Conflict. Summary and Overview of the conflict and its origins. The community dialogue, critical issues series, volume three. 2005. (28 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/dok/rfmgr.pl Wolff, S. Conflict management in Northern Ireland. In: International Journal on Multicultural Societies, Vol. 4, No.1., UNESCO 2002. (30 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097075/conflict_management_in_northern_i reland.pdf Bloc B 1.4.2016 9:45- 15:00 Room 41 Topic: Indigenous rights in Guatemala Workable Peace. Indigenous Rights and Environment in Guatemala. Harward Law School. Programme on Negotiation. (12 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097076/historical_background_guatemala.p df Plant, R. Indigenous Peoples and Poverty Reduction: A case study of Guatemala. 1998. (34 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097076/guatemala-indigenous_1_.pdf Bloc C 15.4. 2016 9:45- 15:00, room 41 Topic: Water on the West Bank Reading: Water on the West Bank. Harward Law School. Programme on Negotiation. (8 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097077/general_instructions_izrael.pdf Beinin, J. –Hajjar, L. Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Primer. MERIP 2014 (16 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097077/Primer_on_Palestine-Israel_MERIP_ February2014_final_1_.pdf History of the Izraeli-Palestinian conflict. POV 2001. (10 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097077/history_izraeli-pal_conflict.pdf Bloc D 22.4. 2016 9:45- 15:00, room 41 Topic: Armenia/Azerbaijan/Nagorno Karabach Reading: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabach. Public Peace Process Initiative. Reading will be available in the beginning of the class. (approx. 10 pp) Svante E. Cornell. The Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Report no. 46, Department of East European Studies, Uppsala University 1999. (153 pages) https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/jaro2016/POL587/um/um/um/47097078/Nagorno-Karabakh_20Conflict_1__up psala.pdf