OVERVIEW AND SITE MAP: BARGAINING PLAN
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3. Protocol Log |
4. Bargaining Plan |
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5. Proposal |
6. Negotiations |
7. Recommendation |
BARGAINING PLAN:
Seeing the Big Picture
PURPOSE
Envoys for each corps will combine their briefs into a bargaining plan. The bargaining plan will provide the big picture of the Arab-Israeli conflict because it will combine the perspectives of an ambassador, diplomat, journalist, and military tactician together.
Specifically, a bargaining plan is a list of objectives and arguments for some type of action(s). In this case the bargaining plan will help each envoy to propose and negotiate a treaty and answer these two key questions:
Who has the right to exist in Jerusalem?
How can the survival and security of the Arabs and Israelis in Jerusalem be ensured?
SPECIFICATIONS
Members of corps will work as a group to create a bargaining plan.
As part of your bargaining plan, prepare a list of 5 questions that you have about the other two corps.
Present your bargaining plan using formal language (void of contractions and emotion).
As a corps you will present your bargaining plan within a specified period of time according to the rubric.
Use citations to indicate sources of information. Specifically, the title, date, and page number of sources must be typed and/or spoken like this:
Example: (Wye Memorandum - 1995, p. 1). The citation should appear at the end of a sentence, before the period.
Your bargaining plan (objectives and arguments) must be recorded in writing but may be presented in any format and any medium of your choice.
- It must be characteristic of an actual diplomatic presentation (a courtroom drama is not appropriate).
- Some media may be a computer portfolio, a flow chart, a video or audio debriefing, a speech, etc… This is your opportunity to be creative!
- Supporting equipment will be provided upon request. Click here
annkulp@redrose.net to e-mail me. Type your equipment needs and your name in the large window and then click on the send 
button at the top of the screen. I'll address your needs as fast as possible.
QUESTIONS?
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SCHEDULE: You have 7 days to complete your bargaining plan.
DAY 1:
Review the rubric for your bargaining plan. The rubric is a measurement of different levels of the quality of argumentation. Your bargaining plan will be assessed based on this rubric.
Remember to review your 
Protocol Log and evaluate yourself and the members of your corps.
Ask the members of your corps the questions that were part of your brief and write down the answers.
DAY 2 & 3:
Remember to review your Protocol Log and evaluate yourself and the members of your corps.
List at least two specific objectives offered by each envoy of your corps and then decide the following:
- What your corps will not negotiate
- What your corps is willing to negotiate
- What you consider as "facts" which may not be true to or agreed upon by any other corps. (A "fact," for example, is that the Israelis believe the Six Day war legally gave them the right to the West Bank and that the PLO will, without agreement from the Israelis, announce on May 4, 1999, that it owns the West Bank.)
- Determine the pros and cons or weaknesses and strengths of each objective and rate the objectives accordingly.
DAY 4:
Remember to review your Protocol Log and evaluate yourself and the members of your envoy.
Each envoy should read one resource on building arguments. These resources will help your corps make the best arguments.
- It is crucial that your arguments follow logic presented in these resources.
- Be aware: finding false logic in another corps' arguments may prove to be a bargaining chip, that is, a way to force what you want due to another's weakness and your strength. So, carefully read this resource!
- Follow the six-part format of an argument found in the resources.
Paradigm for Arguments - read the following sections
[Stating Your Proposition]
[Anticipating Opposition]
[Expanding Your Argument]
[Three Argumentative Appeals:]
[Form: Tradition & Innovation]
[Arguing for Consensus]
Force Field Analysis
Guide to Critical Thinking
Elements of Reasoning
DAY 5:
Build arguments around each objective. (The arguments should be so persuasive that you believe you have a great opportunity to bargain for your points.)
Determine in which format and medium you will present your bargaining plan by democratic vote. E-mail me annkulp@redrose.net if you need support equipment. Type your equipment needs and your name in the large window and then click on the send button at the top of the screen. I'll address your needs as fast as possible.
Submit your request on Day 5 so that the equipment can be available by Day 6.
Practice your presentation.
Day 6 & 7:
Polish your bargaining plan: Finish writing it so that you will be prepared to answer questions from the other corps.
Put your bargaining plan in the format and medium you have chosen.
Review your bargaining plan and write down a minimum of 5 questions for the other corps about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Remember you may not know specifics about the other corps, so you will probably have questions. In the next step these questions will be answered!
DAY 8:
Present your bargaining plan to the other corps.
After your presentation you will field questions from other corps.
At the end of the class submit your bargaining plan.
Go to step 5, Proposal.
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