conres midterm Flashcards
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conflict
A disagreement between two or more individuals or groups over values and claims to scares status, political power and economic resources, social and environmental rights. It is a contested incompatibility between parties.
conflict analysis
The process of investigating the root causes of conflicts, conflict manifestations, identifying parties to the conflict and their interests, and examining the cost of conflicts (political, economic, human and environmental ) through data collection and analysis.
the latent stage of conflict
This refers to structural or systematic conflict by denying political (power sharing, voting rights, Human rights), economic (equal pay, equal employment opportunity, unbalanced regional economic development, lack of social services, poverty and income disparity), denial of social rights to groups/regions (Ethnic, race, religious and gender groups), legal discrimination and injustice through institutions, laws and policies against equality and opportunity. This stage is characterized as unstable peace.
environmental conflict
This refers to a long-term division between groups with different beliefs about the proper relationships between human society and the natural environment. It can be caused by environmental damages through pollution, chemical spills, deforestation, invasion of ancestral lands, and wildlife management, and can erupt over the right of access to natural resources such as water supply, mineral and mining fields, land/arable land, grazing or pastoral land, oil, special rocks, ivory, rubber.
constructive conflict
This seeks a resolution which provides some satisfaction to all involved parties.They often have a win-win orientation and generally parties are willing to work through their differences, until a mutually satisfactory solution is found. When the outcome of conflict brings about positive changes, as demonstrated by not only apologies and compensation for the past abuse but also future prevention of victimization.
Genocide (according to the international law)
Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious, group by:
* killing members of the group;
* causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
* deliberately inflicting the conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group;
* imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or
* forcibly transferring children of a group to another group.
the human cost of conflict
The cost is Death, Internally Displaced People, and Refugees.
three possible causes of intrastate conflicts
Environmental/resource conflict
Political Conflict
Economic Conflict
Cultural conflict: ethnic, religious, and identity conflict.
three costs and consequences of intrastate conflicts
Political cost (total failure of state & complex emergencies), Economic cost (infrastructural destruction, brain drain and flight of human capital, negative trade), and Human cost (Death, IDP, and Refugees).
