Les 5 - §4.3 consequences of conflicts

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Planning

• Assignment from last week
• Consequences of conflicts
• Homework

Learning goals

• You know what the consequences of conflicts are
• You can gain information about previous conflicts from population graphs

Key words §4.3

Humanitarian disaster (humanitaire ramp): when a population cannot be provided with enough food, medicine and housing for a long time

Refugees (vluchtelingen): People fleeing to other countries, usually neighbouring countries.

Displaced people (ontheemden): People fleeing to another place in their own country

The consequences of conflicts

Three dimensions:

• Social
  
• Economic
  
• Demographic
  

Social consequences

Humanitarian disaster (humanitaire ramp): when a population cannot be provided with enough food, medicine and housing for a long time

Examples are:

• 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

Two types:

• Displaced people
• refugees

Displaced people

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

 

Refugees

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

 

Economic consequences 

Money spent on weapons does not go towards education, agriculture or road construction -> paralyses the economy.

In what ways do rebels get money to fight conflicts?

Economic consequences 

In what ways do rebels get money to fight conflicts?

• drugs
• diamonds
• crude oil
• wood

Bad for the economy and the environment

Demographic consequences 

Conflicts have a very strong impact on the demographic of countries:

• Often conflicts result in genocides
  
• If the conflicts stops there will be a baby boom
  

Examples of genocide:

• Hutus killed Tutsis in Rwanda (1994)
  
• Serbs murdered Bosnian Muslims
  
• Rohingya were expelled from Myanmar
  

Homework

• Ch4 §3
  
• Start working on assignment 1,2, 3 & extra opdrachten 4.3 box 2b