4.3 Consequences of conflicts

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Today

Notebook, textbook, workbook on your desk.

4.3 Consequences of conflicts

• In the news (10 min.)
  
• Recap 4.2 Causes of conflicts (5 min.)
  
• Share your piece of peace (10 min.)
  
• Check the homework (5 min.)
  
• Explanation 4.3 (10 min.)
  
• War in Ukraine (15 min.)
  

In the news

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Learning objectives 4.2

• What can cause conflicts?
• Explain the connection between the outbreak of conflicts, the establishment of peace and the role of the government in this.
• In a conflict you can distinguish the different parties and their views, and weigh them up against each other.

Economic causes

Example:

Coastal swamps in Nigeria (crude oil)

Steep mountains in Peru (gold mining)

Cold plains of Canada (shale gas)

Cultural and demographic causes

Example:

In Syria, the minority, the Shiites opressed the Sunnis that are the majority.

Background info:
You can divide Muslims roughly into two groups:

• Sunnis (90% of all Muslims)
• Shiites

Sunnis follow the prophet Mohammed, Shiites believe that Mohammed had a successor, Ali

Reasons for conflicts often have to do with:

• unfair distribution of power
• feeling of being subordinated (=ondergeschikt)
  
• poverty

Peace on Earth

Please share your piece of peace.

Learning objective: You see the connections between conflicts using atlas maps and other data.

4.1: assignment 5 and 6 a, c and d on page 87 of the workbook.

4.2: assignment 7 c on page 89 of the workbook.

Answers

Learning objectives 4.3

• You know what the consequences of conflict are.
• You can explain the connection between war tactics and humanitarian disasters.
• You can gain information about conflicts in the past from a population graph.

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.

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.

War in Ukraine

• What is most striking to you seeing this footage from Ukraine?
  

War in Ukraine

• What is most striking to you seeing this footage from Ukraine?

• What's next? How to stop war?
  

Today

Notebook, textbook, workbook and Grote Bosatlas 55th edition on your desk.

4.3 Consequences of conflicts

• In the news (10 min.)
  
• Recap 4.2 Causes of conflicts (5 min.)
  
• Share your piece of peace (10 min.)
  
• Check the homework (5 min.)
  
• Explanation 4.3 (10 min.)
  
• War in Ukraine (15 min.)
  

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?

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?