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This course will do a deep dive into a current, ongoing, and seemingly intractable international challenge—the humanitarian crisis of the reportedly more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees that have poured across the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh. It will involve a simulation in which students will act as members of a task force constituted by the UN Secretary General to research, analyze and diagnose the interests of all stakeholders involved in or touched by the crisis, and answer the following questions: how and why did this happen; how can the crisis be resolved; and how can the United Nations, ASEAN, and the rest of the international community help? By the end of the course, not only will students develop a detailed and multidimensional understanding of the Rohingya refugee crisis, but will learn skills that are demanded by all large organizations: the capacity to do high quality research under intense time pressure, apply sharp analytical tools to dissect complex issues, employ oral and written skills to convey ideas clearly and succinctly, work constructively in teams, and negotiate trade-offs with other team members to reach consensus. <a href="https://jh.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=205a4f71-d04b-4360-b1ad-a872013f2834" target="_blank">Click here to see a video introduction for the course.</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>