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Overview
The Capstone Seminar (IRP 706) is a
one-credit course to be offered during the Maymester, providing professional
training to you before you embark on your summer internship.
The object of the seminar is to give you the opportunity to
apply what you have learned in a professional (albeit simulated) setting.
The 2009 IR Capstone is a simulation of the negotiations on climate change that will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
It is December 2009 and this city of 1.8 million is hosting the 15th Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-15). COP15 is the last meeting of what the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Secretariat, Yves de Boer, has called the most complex negotiations in history. The Conference of Parties has opened, with the usual formal speeches (the UN Secretary-General, the Prime Minister of Denmark, other luminaries, Bono and the like) and is now moving into the detailed negotiations, mostly conducted by professional multilateral diplomats...
The 2009 Maymester IRP 706 is a required core course for the Maxwell MA-IR Program.
Please note that the first meeting will take place on 8 May at 9:00 AM in Eggers 010.
This is
a fictitious simulation exercise that has been developed for educational
purposes.
©
2008 John R. Mathiason and G. Matthew Bonham
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