| Lesson Plans- International Peacekeeping and the Cold War
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For background information, please refer to the related eWorkshop questions and readings by Dr. Robert Rauchhaus.
for High School classrooms:
The Situation in Sudan (PDF) by Jill Hardy, Huntington Beach High School
This lesson plan was designed for a 9th grade, honors Model UN course (MUN), although it can be easily adapted to other class settings.
This lesson plan uses this Internet hotlist and this PowerPoint presentation.
Synopsis: Students will learn about the current situation in Sudan (2004) as well as apply their previous knowledge of the United Nations and its peacekeeping roles. Students will create a proposal for a solution to the crisis in Sudan.
Peacekeeping and the UN in the modern world (PDF) by Sharon Mackey, Fontana High School
This lesson plan uses this Internet hotlist.
Synopsis: Following the study of war, genocide, and nationalistic conflict, this lesson will help students to understand the potential for an international organization, which may be able to help in the resolution of conflicts between nations and groups within nations. This provides general knowledge of the history, organization, purposes and principles of the United Nations.
“NATO : Changing Roles From Cold War to Peacekeeping to the War on Terror” (PDF) by Jeremy M Nelson, John F. Kennedy High School (Granada HIlls, California)
This lesson plan uses these two PowerPoint presentations (Overview Plan and NATO lecture) and the Millionaire template from this Web site.
Synopsis: The California Standard related to the Cold War is really an examination of US foreign policy post-1945 and, consequently, it is important that students see the ever changing nature of foreign policy as the global situation changes. In this instance, the transition from a Cold War mentality with its themes of containment of a rival super-power (i.e. the Soviet Union) to a world threatened by terrorism...
for College-level courses:
Critical Analysis of UN Peacekeeping (PDF) by Tracy Poindexter, UCSB
Synopsis: After completing the activities in this lesson plan students should: (1) be able to explain what is involved in a peacekeeping mission and articulate why different actors would or would not support this arm of the UN. (2) Develop argument analysis skills by identifying an author’s principle argument
and the underlying assumptions behind it. (3) Hypothesize how an argument would be different if the author had anchored it on alternate assumptions.
Peacekeeping Operations and Superpower in the Post Cold War (PDF) by Kristian Pujol, UCSB
Synopsis: Objectives of this lesson plan are: To have students understand the idea of international peacekeeping as it evolved from the Cold War to the present and the factors that affected its development;To have students critically assess the pros and cons of unilateral action versus collective action; and To apply analysis to a contemporary conflict in need of resolution.
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