Section: Unit 3. Positionality and Responsibility | Conflict, Power and Communication (ECE1.1)

Section outline

This section turns the analytical tools around and applies them to you.

By the end of it you will be able to:

describe your own position in a conflict, including the authority you hold and the risks you are not exposed to,

distinguish procedural impartiality from substantive neutrality, and

state a responsibility that is proportionate to your position rather than to the size of the problem.

The section has three parts: a fifteen-minute video lecture, a fifteen-minute private checklist, and a written note of eighty to a hundred words. Allow forty-five minutes in total. The checklist is private reflection and is not marked. The note is the second of the two pieces of work an instructor reads and replies to.
- Select activity Video Content: positionality, responsibility and the limits of neutrality
  
  Video Content: positionality, responsibility and the limits of neutrality Page
  
  Students must
  
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  A fifteen-minute lecture on positionality, the limits of neutrality, and responsibility understood as what you are positioned to do rather than what you are to blame for (15 min).
- Select activity Where do I speak from: checklist (15 min)
  
  Where do I speak from: checklist (15 min) File
  
  Students must
  
  Mark as done
- Select activity The thing I am positioned to do (2 min)
  
  The thing I am positioned to do (2 min) Feedback
  
  Students must
  
  Mark as done
- Select activity Responsibility note (15 min)
  
  Responsibility note (15 min) Assignment
  
  Students must
  
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- Select activity Conclusion
  
  Conclusion Page
  
  Students must
  
  Mark as done
- Select activity Extra materials
  
  Extra materials Page
  
  Not required for completion, and not included in the three hours. These are for afterwards, if the section stayed with you.