The Model Arctic Council: Simulated Negotiations as Pedagogy and Embodied Diplomacy

Sarson, Leah; Muzik, Val; Ray, Brandon; Gambrell, Glenn; Yona, Leehi; Comeau, Robert

doi:10.1080/02722011.2019.1570955

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“…At the nexus of these and other changing conditions are concerns about risk and resiliency, examples of which manifest at all levels: local, regional, national, and global. Multi-track diplomacy (Conley and Zagorski 2017;Sarson et al 2019), as employed in the Arctic Council and in an ADAC-Trent University workshop (ADAC, 2019), hold promise. Still, challenges like risk comprehension and such realities as the differing perspectives and values of stakeholders remain.…”

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“…Whether intended or not, the Arctic Council is considered by some a notable example of track one and a half diplomacy. It seeks to identify, and often works to resolve, environmental security concerns in the Arctic (Sarson et al 2019), though matters of "hard" security are not addressed. Similarly, several participating entities have described the Arctic Council as a model of multi-track diplomacy (Conley and Zagorski, 2017).…”

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The Evolving Geopolitics of Polar Regions

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Heininen²

2022

Polar Cousins

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By and large, geostrategic considerations seem to treat the two poles as distinct. Yet, when Christian spent a year in Australia, he realized the considerable and arguably growing geostrategic complementarity between the Arctic and Antarctic along with the Southern Ocean. At the same time, Douglas was increasingly drawn into resolving some of the complex interactions of sovereignty and environmental security in the Arctic through his establishment of the Arctic Domain Awareness Center at the University of Alaska. So, we orchestrated a dialogue among some clever strategic minds across the northern and southern hemispheres. Five years on, this open access book is the result. The time that has elapsed since this project was initially conceived has only reinforced concern about the deleterious impact of adversarial behaviour and climate change on both poles, the need to learn from complementary experiences, and opportunities for cross-polar collaboration among allies and partners to shape the geostrategic environment across both poles. Polar ice caps that used to be flyover country at the edge of the world have become central to geostrategic competition. How that competition plays out has serious ramifications for environmental, political, economic, and human security and stability around the globe.Australian Defence underwrote the initial project with competitive funding from their Strategic Policy Grants Program, which, inter alia, enabled an author and practitioner workshop in Canberra. The Konrad Adenauer Foundation was so convinced of the project's novelty and broader importance that it agreed to facilitate open access publication of this volume through its fairly new office in Australia. We are especially grateful to the office's former director, Dr. Beatrice Gorawantschy, as well as her successor, Bertil Wenger.Christian started this project while on a fellowship at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, in collaboration with his local colleague Cassandra, who directs the Climate and Sustainability Policy Research (CASPR) group. She and her team organized and led the author and practitioner workshop leading to this publication in Canberra in December 2019. Regrettably, competing commitments did not allow her to join with us in seeing this publication through to completion. CASPR research associate Dr. Claire Nettle provided indispensable operational, editorial, and administrative support throughout the workshop and initial stages in preparing papers for publication. This project would not have come to fruition without them.Douglas is most grateful for the assistance and support from his colleagues in the Arctic Initiative of the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in helping bring this volume to completion. Often the most challenging part of completing a multi-authored volume as this one is left at the end, where all of the fine details of editing are resolved. Daniel Bicknell found time to help considerably in pulling these all together.We would be equally r...

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The Evolving Geopolitics of Polar Regions

Nicol¹,

Heininen²

2022

Polar Cousins

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“…The Soliman et al study did not, however, investigate and clarify impact on organizations. Regarding diplomacy, scholars have written of the need for training (Zartman 2010) and have shown that behaviors learned through simulations were applied to real‐world interactions (Sarson et al 2019). But here, too, in the diplomatic area, there are no studies that decisively show the transfer of behaviors from training to negotiators or organizations.…”

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Confirming the Impact of Training on Negotiators and Organizations

Baber¹

2022

Negotiation Journal

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This study seeks to determine the long-term impacts of training on negotiators and organizations. Although previous studies have linked training to negotiation outcomes, their findings have been basedprimarily on experimental data. This article analyzes survey data from business students who received negotiation training from the author over a period of ten years and were employed at the time of the survey. The survey sought to determine if respondents applied the skills learned in negotiation classes to their workplace. Data includes self-reported subjective and objective items confirming the impact of training on negotiators and the organizations in which they work. Over 80 percent of respondents reported using skills learned in the classroom in their work and 30 percent reported that the training impacted their pay or promotion. The study reports rates at which negotiation skills and behaviors were found and uses the Kirkpatrick Levels 3 and 4 to interpret the frequency of specific impacts on individuals and organizations. Negotiation educators should consider the high rate at which trainees put learned skills into action, especially as the individuals' frequency of negotiating increased and their position of authority in the negotiation strengthened.

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Still Wrestling with Monsters: A Response to Pat Norman

Grice

2023

Using Social Theory in Higher Education

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AbstractŽižek’s (2012) provocative revelation warns that we are ‘living in the time of monsters’, as western cultures enter ‘a new dark ages’ of permanent capitalist crisis. Žižek is referring to ideological masks that impact education and educational researchers: the greed of capitalism, twisted within its fraught political connection with democracy and citizenship, ultimately threatening the planet. If theory is provocation as Norman suggests, my response to Žižek’s provocation and Norman’s explores democracy, learning and pedagogy, and the civic purpose of education, beyond citizenship. Žižek offers philosophical insight for educational researchers to reflect upon the place of democracy, the dangers of performativity, and the purpose of education for Australian citizens. In examining democracy, citizenship, and equity, my response draws upon the philosophical and spiritual insights of Illich (1970) (Bono, Surrender: 40 songs, one story. Hutchinson Heinemann, London, 2022) and other contemporary philosophers to rethink what it means to be human. I propose that what is of utmost importance to education is receptivity and listening in the creation of new voice, new art, and new songs.

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The Model Arctic Council: Simulated Negotiations as Pedagogy and Embodied Diplomacy

Cited by 5 publications

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The Evolving Geopolitics of Polar Regions

The Evolving Geopolitics of Polar Regions

Confirming the Impact of Training on Negotiators and Organizations

Still Wrestling with Monsters: A Response to Pat Norman

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