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Student Workshop I: Good Friday Agreement : Final Round

The first simulation was on the Northern Ireland conflict in which students were asked to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement as representatives of different groups and parties involved in the conflict. more…

Student Workshop II: Renegotiating the Bosnian Constitution Five Years After Dayton

The second simulation was on the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict. The students were asked to represent the Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian negotiating teams at a meeting meant to see whether the constitution agreed at Dayton could be renegotiated. more…

Student Workshop III: Role of the International Community in Conflict Management/Resolution

The third simulation was based on an abstract scenario in which the students were asked to act as actors in a longstanding conflict between ethnic/religious communities in a geo-strategically important country. The simmering conflict had now reached a point of outright war and the students as actors were to decide what course of action should be adopted to mitigate the conflict. more…

Student Workshop IV: Frameworks for a Kashmir Settlement

The fourth simulation was based on one of the five working groups that the Indian Prime Minister set up in May 2006 to produce ideas on how to move the Kashmir peace process forward. The working group that it was based on dealt with Center-State Relations. The students were asked to act as representatives of various stakeholders and party to Kashmir problem. more…

Student Workshop V: Ending the Violence

The fifth simulation was an optional simulation that was based on an abstract scenario in which teams are asked to negotiate peace between communities involved in a conflict in a transitional democracy. The country is a federation that brings together three demographically mixed and territorially dispersed communities—one majority and two minority. more…

Text written by Radha Kumar and Ellora Puri.
Copyright, Radha Kumar, 2007.