GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Perpetual Peace, American Imperialism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
12 Dec 2016
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Geog 1ha3 human geographies: society and culture. Lecture 22: geographies of war, peace & terrorism nov 29, 2016. Conflict between individuals, and cultural groups, is a long-standing part of human behaviour; is conflict part of human nature or is it a learned-behaviour. War = act of conflict by a state --> relatively recent -- conflict long standing, but war is recent: traced back to the emergence of nationalism in the 18th century. The main forms of conflict involve: competition for territory -- resources within territory (e. g. oil, water, etc. , rivalries between cultural groups. The geographies of conflict exist at a number of spatial scales. State vs. state conflict (e. g. the world wars) Alliances between states (i. e. nato: national. Conflicts within the boundaries of a state (e. g. civil wars: local. Sense of place: sites of commemoration: meaningful places for nations: sites of commemoration. Civil wars and secessionist conflicts: global wars vs. civil wars & secessionist conflicts; approx.
