4.2-4.3 conflicts, causes and consequences

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4.2 Causes of conflics

Today:

1. short knowledge check 4.1
2. short explanation 4.2
3. knowledge check 4.2
4. work on completing 4.1+starting 4.2
5. review quiz Ch1.

An internal conflict is usually a

1. regional conflict
2. territorial Conflict
3. civil war
4. world war

What do we call a people who wants to cut loose from a country?

1. International conflict
2. Nationalism
3. Seperatism
4. Regionalism

A people (nation) is characterised by

1. Living together in the same terrirory
2. Being within one state
3. Sharing the same language, religion and or history
4. Having a sense of nationalism

State and territory are one

Within a state a minority lives with its own territory

A nation has a state but is also present in a number of other countries forming minorities in those other countries

The territory of a people is bigger than the state

A people is spread out over multiple states, being a minority in each of these states

Causes of conflics

• Cultural causes 
• Demografic causes
• Economic causes

Cultural and 

demografic causes

Economic causes

Demografic causes

'Youth bulge': a large share of  15-29 year old in a population.

Many educated young people can  lead to even more unrest.

Demografic causes are about...

1. the population structure
2. the distribution of wealth
3. the economy
4. the nature of a country

What makes the combination of many young people and high unemployment figures extra explosive?

Why is a fairly well educated young population under these circumstaces even more risky?

Selection of assignments

Skills 1+4 and Unit 4.1: choose 4 Qs from 6.
(complete before Monday)

Unit 4.2: questions 1, 2, 4 and 7
(complete before Thursday)

-> we also review the quiz today

Consequences of conflicten

Economic Consequences

Demographic Consequences

Ecologic Consequences

Social Consequences

What can be the economic
consequences of an armed conflict?

What is not an example of an ecologic consequence?

1. Toxic substances in nature due to chemical warfare
2. Oil leakage by bombing of a pipeline
3. floods due to reservoir dam being blown up
4. overly full refugee camps

What could be demografic
consequences of an armed conflict?

Demographic consequences

• A gap in the male population of a certain age
• Sometimes Genocide, 
• a babyboom after the war is over

When did the conflict in Cambodia end? 

'Social consequences deal with...

1. ... the way a country is governed
2. ... environmental damage
3. ... The society, the way people interact with their surroudings
4. ... vulcanism and flood

Social consequences

Shorts term:

* children cannot go to school

* families are torn apart

* people have to leave their houses/neighbourhoods

* jobs are lost

* fields are abandoned 

Social consequences

long term (also long after the war is over) : 

• Victims of physical injuries (due to fights, landmines, lack of hospital beds, doctors etc)
• Victims of mental injuries (fear, headeache, depression, PTSS)

Selection of assignments

Skills 1+4 and Unit 4.1: choose 4 Qs from 6.
(complete before Monday)

Unit 4.2: questions 1, 2, 4 and 7
(complete before Thursday)

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Selection of assignments

Unit 4.2: questions 1, 2, 4 and 7

(complete before Thursday)

Read Unit 4.3

This and next lesson:

4.3 Q: 2, 4-7

Explain how a civil war and poverty can together create a vicious circle

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