Pro-Con: Conflict in the Middle East: Web-Published

One unit of our International Relations course has focused on issues that face the Middle East. In preparation for the visit of a guest speaker (see the posting about "Conflict in Israel") students described and evaluated a host of controversial issues as presented on the site sponsored by pro-con.org.

Pro-con.org reviewed and posted this assignment on their site How Schools are using Pro-con.org. The student worksheet materials are posted as number 117.

"Living in Nuclear Free (Almost) World"

Experience is one of the most powerful elements of our learning and growth. In class we have debated, simulated, and discussed a variety of International Relations issues and cases from English reactions to the rule of the Belgian Congo to proposals for solving the current Darfur crisis and how to effectively partition Palestine.

Another aspect of experience is to interact with the decision-makers themselves. Dr. John E. Endicott's visit to our school offered us this type of opportunity. Endicott has served in a variety of positions that have put him at the center of nuclear incidents; from his experience during the Cuba Missile Crisis to his involvement with providing intelligence and analysis during the days following the Pueblo Incident. His current interests include the creation of a nuclear free zone in Asia and the North Pacific, a zone that would include North and South Korea, and parts of China, the USSR and the USA. It was a privilege to host him as a guest speaker and to answer questions from our students. Endicott is currently President of Woosong University in Daejon.

UN Day at TCIS

The United Nations is one actors in International Relations of the 20th and 21st centuries. One of the best ways to learn is to teach others so students of our International Relations class designed display materials and a presentation to the student body to highlight the development of the UNO and some of the present and past UN activities around the world. October, 2008.