Riots January 2021

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Riots January 2021

At which scale is the pandemic a problem?

1. Global
2. Regional
3. National
4. Continental

What is the point?

• To identify the various causes of conflicts involved.
  
• To understand the connection between the breakout of violence, the restoration of peace and the government's role in this.
• To appreciate the perspectives of different parties involved in conflicts and evaluate those viewpoints.
  

What events do you still remember from that weekend?

At which scale were the riots a problem?

1. Continental
2. Regional
3. National
4. Lokal

Should the government ban further demonstrations?

1. Ja
2. Nee

What is the difference between demonstraters and rioters?

Information

There are often conflicts between different cultures and religions. Yet culture or religion in itself is usually not the cause of conflict. This cause is more often due to a combination of an unfair distribution of power and a feeling of disadvantage and poverty.

Why are people revolting against the government right now?

Information

A dictatorship is often in power in conflict areas. This means that power rests with one person or a small group, such as in Saudi Arabia or in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sometimes there is a fragile state, a very weak state, such as in Iraq or the Central African Republic. In these countries, the government has virtually no control and there is a lot of corruption, crime and economic chaos.

Information

Many countries are in the middle bracket, such as Peru. There is a democracy here, because the population has the right to vote, but the state does not take good care of all citizens. The interests of the large mining companies take precedence over clean water for the farmers who live around the mines. Protests are met with violence, the press does not dare to write about this openly and the judges are not independent.

Does the normal situation in Peru resemble the situation seen here?

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What types of reasons caused these people to act?

1. Economic
2. Political
3. Social-cultural
4. Phsical (natural)

Why do entrepreneurs feel disadvantaged by the government?

Suppose you were responsible for safety in a municipality, what measures would you take?

Which corona-
measures do work?

What measures
do not work?