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Finished product: 10-15 page, double-spaced, 12 point font brief with a one-page executive summary. Your work should be adequately subheaded in bold to give your reader a roadmap.


Early in 2013, Stephen Walt's blog provided a list of intractable conflicts. As a group he coined them "the 'too-hard' box." Not all of them are intractable in the sense that the parties have engaged in open conflict, but still, they are puzzles when we think about applying international negotiation tactics. Some of them, through the negotiation process, have made considerable headway since 2013. Please choose one of Walt's ideas and write a background paper on the conflict, what specific international negotiation efforts to solve the conflict that have been made, and future prospects. See http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/02/26/the_too_hard_box. Just close the advertising box and read the blog - you don't need to sign up or register with Foreign Policy. If that does not work for you, here is a list of the conflicts to choose from:

1. Cyprus - the Greece-Turkey territorial division

2. The Arab-Israeli conflict

3. The Korean Peninsula

4. Kashmir

5. UN Security Council Reform

6. The Democratic Republic of the Congo

7. The Cuba Embargo - solved in 2015 but issues remain

8. The European Union

9. Climate Change

10. Former Soviet Fragments - Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nadgorno-Karabakh; Chechnya; breakaway provinces South Osetia and Abkhazia.

Your final project should be 10-15 pages, double-spaced, not counting a cover page (if you wish - not necessary), the References List, and any appendices.

Please note: You should be using Turabian author/date reference list style. If you are unsure what this means, please review the Turabian Quick Guide, noting the use of "author/date" style. This is not optional in the MA in International Relations and Conflict Resolution degree. If you are under another degree plan that mandates a certain citation style, please let your instructor know.

The background paper should consist of the following subheaded sections:

1. Statement of the problem
2. Issues
3. Complicating factors
4. Possible solutions within the framework of international negotiation methods - Note: If progress has been made, indicate what international negotiation methods were used.
5. Recommended course of action
6. Anticipated Outcomes and analysis

References List

Any appendices

Although these sections may beg for enumerated points, please do not use bullet lists or other short-cuts to academic writing. Write in full sentences, not fragments. Position your arguments as the first sentence of the paragraph for clarity. Follow arguments, ideas, main points, etc. with evidence as support, analysis, and a transition to the next point. In other words, follow a basic IRAC structure for each paragraph - issue, rationale, analysis, conclusion.

About footnotes and endnotes: For everyone in all programs, you may use footnotes or endnotes - but not to hold sources. Footnotes in Turabian author/date style are meant to hold superfluous information - things you'd like your reader to know but they are not critical to your argumentation and support. Sources belong only in the References List and are noted in the text parenthetically as (author date, page).

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RUNNING HEAD: Climate change

Climate change
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Climate change
Executive Summary
The paper gives a comprehensive approach on the issue of Climate Change which has been
termed by scientists as the leading crisis which faces the globe. This has also brought about
conflicts in the world with agreements being signed to control it while also being breached by
others. In the paper, the statement of the problem looks at the intensity of climate change in the
world, expounding on its effects on the globe. It also explains on the projected effects of this
issue on the globe in the coming years.
Moreover, the paper looks at the issues which have been arising since the declaration of climate
change as a real conflict. This also introduces the measures that the concerned authorities and
agencies brought into place to form a basis for fighting climate change. However, dishonesty and
propaganda has been used to discredit the fight against climate change.
Furthermore, the complicating factors in the fight against global warming have also been
expounded. Firstly, perceptions have been a great hindrance on the advocacy of a clean
atmosphere. The roles of the developed countries and the controversies surrounding this have
been other complicating factors. Some solutions have been put forward by international agencies
to curb the conflict such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Going forward, some recommendations have been provided on the possible approaches which
can be adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emission. These are the use and enactment of rules to
monitor the usage of renewable energy sources and proper waste management by adoption of
waste recycling measures. The anticipated outcomes of adoption of these measures are reduced
emissions which will result to reduced climate change. However, to bring these countries
together on a unity of purpose will be a challenge.

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Climate change
Statement of Problem
Climate change has become a global outcry in the recent times with many nations coming
together to try and salvage the issue before it gets out of hand. It can be defined as a change in
the statistical distribution of weather patterns in the globe. This happens when this change is
distributed over a particular period of time. Therefore, it can be defined as the change of the
normal weather aspects, or in the timely variation of the global weather along a specific period of
time.
To determine the rates of climate change, scientists have put up a lot of work to read the past and
predict the future through the use of experiments, theories and observation. Due to this, they
have collected an intense climate record which extends far into the earths past and which
continues to be assembled with each passing day. By observation, scientists aligned to the study
climate and weather have used facts gained from borehole temperature trends, records on flora
and fauna, glacial processes and stable isotopic analysis to forecast possible climate conditions in
both the near and far future. Moreover, physical scientists have also come up with theoretical
explanations of climate change which are used to predict future climatic conditions. Climate
change bases its evidence from these studies, theories and observations to give a warning to the
inhabitants of the globe on what should be done to safe the globe from adverse changes.
Historical and archeological evidence is also observed in the study of climate change.1
Climate change is a negative crisis and therefore brings forth negative effects to the globe and its
inhabitants. These effects can be summed up as pollution of the earth. Due to climate change,
melting of glaciers and polar ice has been witnessed. Glaciers are very important to human life

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Eisenack & Rebecca. A framework for analyzing climate change. 2012. 243-260.

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Climate change
since many people depend on them for water supply. The planet has about 190,000 glaciers and
they act as source of water for many people during the dry seasons. Ice in the arctic has been
melting at a high rate, crumbling into the sea. The melting of glaciers has caused another huge
problem which can be fully attributed to climate change and which is the rise of the sea level. 2
Due to this, many people have been exposed to flooding as small islands where human life has
been thriving getting covered.
Moreover, climate change has been blamed for ramped droughts and floods. High intensity of
rainfall and forest fires which have consumed a lot of the earth’s vegetative cover has been
witnessed in the recent times and due to this, the earth has gradually been becoming inhabitable.
Furthermore, alteration of ecosystems and threats of extinction of some flora and fauna species
have been attributed to climate change. It is the role of the most intellectual organism (man) to
protect the ecosystems and enrich the beauty of the world. However, due to climate change and
which has been highly blamed on human activity, there is a risk of extinction of various polar
lives and other important and unique organisms.
Issues
There have been a lot of activities by authorities, agencies and...


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