conflicts, causes and concequences

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Causes and concequenses of conflics

Een internal conflict is usually a

1. Regional conflict
2. Territorial Conflict
3. civil war
4. world war

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

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

A people (nation) is caracterised 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 people 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 then the state

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

Causes and concequenses 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?

your turn:

unit 4.2: questions 1, 2, 4 en 7

Concequences of conflicten

Economic Concequences

Demographic Concequences

Ecologic Concequences

Social Concequences

What can be the economic
concequences of an armed conflict?

What is not an example of an ecologic concequence?

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
concequences of an armed conflict?

Demographic concequences

• 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 concequences 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 concequences

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 concequences

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)

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

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