4.1 Worldwide armed violence

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Conflicts

Worldwide armed violence

Learning goals

• You know where armed conflicts in the world occur.
• You understand why internal conflicts can arise.
• You see the connections between conflicts using atlas maps and other data.

What is a conflict?

Battlefield: where, why and how?

If at least more than 25 people die in conflict per year, then it is an armed conflict.

Lots of conflicts happend after the Second World War.

Conflicts

There are 2 kinds of conflicts:

1. International conflicts
2. Internal conflicts or civil wars

Conflicts

When a foreign country decides to join an internal conflict, it will become a internationalised conflict.

This was the case with the Vietnam war.

Borders

Nowadays, borders are essential for maintaining a state. A state (country) has laws and rules, and can be sovereign or self-determined. This means no foreign country can meddle with the country.

Conflicts

When a group of people are bonded together through a language, belief or common history, they form one people or nation.

When we want to describe the origin or culture of a people, we call it ethnicity. The place where a group of people live is called the territory.

Borders

The problem is that some people don't have a territory.

Some groups of people are divided across multiple countries.

Borders?

A lot of borders are a bit sketchy. Mainly due to the fact that the local population does not acknowledge the borders. This way, seperatism can grow.

Seperatism or connection

Some groups want a stronger connection in a area. Others are seeking seperatism. This is due to the fact that people can like or dislike the current states as it is. When in the Islamic culture people are dissatisfied with their states, they can call on a jihad against the state.

The Islamic people feel connected through faith, and want some seperatist groups want to unify the Islamic world through these jihads.

Do you think that there are more places in the world who want to be independent?

Work

Make assignment 1, 2, 3 from 4.1

Learning goals

• You know where armed conflicts in the world occur.
• You understand why internal conflicts can arise.
• You see the connections between conflicts using atlas maps and other data.

Homework

Make all of the assignments from 4.1