GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: American Imperialism, Air India Flight 182, National Liberation Front (Algeria)
28 Dec 2017
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Between individuals and cultural groups is long standing part of human behaviour. Question: is conflict part of human nature or is it a learned behaviour. War is an act of conflict by state. Relatively recent, emergence of nationalism in the 18th century. Imbalances of power (someone has more power than another) Geographies of conflict exist at a number of spatial scales. State vs. state conflict (ex: world war) Alliances between states (ex: nato, see photo) Conflicts within the boundaries of a state (ex: civil war) Localized: sites of commemoration (ex: battlefield site, cemetery) Meaningful places for nations: sites of commemoration (ex: uss arizona, hawaii (pearl. Vietnam, middle east, conflicts between israel and egypt, etc. quest for independence from foreign dominance/occupation. Ex: usa and african states: secession conflicts. Ex: quebec, basque, ireland, chechnya, taiwan, etc. Want to become independent country (quebec wants to leave canada: civil war (within a state)
