PA 5827 is also offered in Fall 2024
PA 5827 is also offered in Fall 2023
Fall 2024 | PA 5827 Section 001: International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (23156)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1 Credit
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Grad or Masters or Law
- Times and Locations:
First Half of Term
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 40 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- The course will enable students to engage in a simulated multi-party negotiation of a complex, high stakes international crisis with multiple players, focused on a future or current international crisis. It provides students across all degree programs the opportunity to participate in a dynamic, actively managed exercise in which teams attempt to negotiate a solution to a fictional future crisis based on current global realities. Students will be divided into six or seven teams representing countries or non-state actors involved in the crisis. A subject-matter expert (such as a retired ambassador) will guide the negotiations playing the role of a UN envoy. Each team will be mentored by a retired diplomat, military officer,or other experienced volunteer who will provide negotiating and strategic advice. A team from the Army War College, a leading institution in strategic exercises, will lead the exercise, providing structured input that gives students a realistic sense of how strategic actors must think and behave in crisis negotiation scenarios. Students are given course material in advance and meet with mentors to prepare for the exercise. A different international crisis is featured each year, and students are encouraged to participate more than once.
- Class Notes:
- Please direct requests for permission numbers or approval of class time conflict forms to Stacey Grimes at grime004@umn.edu.
- Class Description:
- Jon Olson was commissioned in May 1990 from the US Naval Academy with a BS in History. He spent 21 years on active duty with three years and 17 days at sea aboard aircraft carriers and large-deck amphibious assault ships. He participated in Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, Operation RESTORE HOPE, Operation JOINT FORGE, support for UNAMET in East Timor, and in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM - Afghanistan. Along the way, he earned an MA in National Security and Strategic Studies at the US Naval War College, as well as logged 35 parachute jumps as a US Navy Parachutist. After retiring in 2011, Jon returned home to Minnesota, earned a Master of Public Affairs at the Humphrey School while also teaching college courses on national security at Carleton College and Metropolitan State University. He continues to co-author national security thrillers with his fellow Annapolis graduate David Bruns, and Jon hosts National Security This Week each Wednesday morning on KYMN Radio.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23156/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 14 April 2023
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2024 Public Affairs Classes Taught by Jon Olson