4.2 Causes of conflicts

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4..2 Causes of conflicts

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• Explanation (20 min.)
  
• Work on assignments (10 min.)
  
• Check assignments (5 min.)
  
• Homework assignment (10 min.)
  

Ongoing conflicts

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You call the residential area of a people a
territory.

If a people has its own state, there is little reason for a conflict.

Nations on Earth: five thousand
States: two hundred

6b Why have internal conflicts often to do with the position of minorities?

If several peoples live within a state border who are oppressed or disadvantaged, they will revolt or want to become independent. The state often suppresses that with violence.

Learning objectives

• 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.

What can cause a conflict?

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

Economic causes

Paradox of abundance (or resource curse)

7a. Compare GB 188A and GB 267. Which country has the least chance of a paradox of plenty? Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Nigeria or South Africa?

7b. Explain your answer.

4.2 assignment 3

a. What makes the combination of this population graph and unemployement so explosive?

b. Someone says 'A youth bulge provides a strong development potential'. Explain this.

c. Someone else says 'The chance that riots will break out again in 2030 is high.' How can you deduce that from the graph?

Why is Peru a fragile state while this country has a democracy?

• income and employment from gold mines is important and the government disregards the interests of the farmers who live around the gold mines
• jurisdiction is not independent
• little freedom of the press

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

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

4.1: assignment 5 on page 87 of the workbook

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

Answers

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

Homework

Write a poem, letter or song for peace.

Use at least three terms from the chapter.

No less than ten lines, no more than one side.