Consequences of a conflict

Consequences of a conflict

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Social consequences

Humanitarian disasters are often the result of conflicts.

What are examples of humanitarian disasters?

• bombs at schools, weddings and hospitals
• starving of the urban population
• child soldiers
• mass rapes

Social consequences

The consequences of conflicts are not limited to the place of the conflict because:
People flee to the nearest safe place

When people stay in their own country, you call these people displaced people.

When these people flee to other countries, usually neighbouring countries, they are called refugees.

Refugees often live for years in
dirty and unsafe camps.
In 2017 there were 68 million refugees.

That is 50% more than the year before, when 45 million people were refugees.

Less than 1% of these refugees are asylum seekers in de EU.

Most are too poor to make the journey.

Demographic causes

How can you tell in the age structure of a population graph that many people were killed in a conflict?

• the graph shows a deep notch

After a conflict, peace is celebrated and more children are born. Such a birth wave is called a baby boom.

How can you tell in the age structure of a population graph that many people were killed in a conflict?

• the graph shows a deep notch

After a conflict, peace is celebrated and more children are born. Such a birth wave is called a baby boom.

Demografic consequences

Genocide (destruction of a people, race or group or an attempt to do so). 

For example, in Rwanda.

Many (young) male victims.

Genocide, often followed by 'baby boom' (remarkably high birth rate in a given year).

Economic consequences

Conflicts are terrible for a country's economy.

• Nobody spends their holiday over there -> no tourism
• Agriculture is often at a standstill, no food
  
• In addition, a lot of money is needed for reconstruction, housing, roads, railways
  
• The population can no longer work, so they have to fight or flee

Short documentary:

Consequences of conflicts

• What are differences between the conflict areas?
• What are similarities between the conflict areas?
• What do you think when you see the situation others are living in?

Genocide

1. Hutus murdered Tutsis in Rwanda (1994)

2. Serbs murdered Bosnian Muslims

3. Rohingya were expelled from Myanmar