GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Air India Flight 182, Perpetual Peace, National Liberation Front (Algeria)
22 Jan 2018
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Geographies of war, peace, and terrorism november 27th, 2017. War = act of conflict by a state relatively recent: connected to the emergence of nationalism in the 18th century. The main forms of conflict involve: competition for territory, rivalries between cultural groups, ideological differences, ex. The cold war: imbalances of power (most common) The geographies of conflict exist at a number of spatial scales. International/geopolitical: states vs. state conflict (e. g. the world wars, alliances between states (e. g. nato north atlantic treaty. National/state: conflicts within the boundaries of a state (e. g. civil wars, ex. Local: gangs, sites of commemoration, etc, cemeteries. Sense of place: sites of commemoration: meaningful places for nations: sties of commemoration, e. g. cenotaph, military cemeteries, monuments, auschwitz, poland, vimy memorial, france, uss, arizona. Conflict: 5 main categories/types: between states, e. g. Israel and egypt, lebanon, syria: quest for independence from foreign dominance/occupation, e. g. Us; african states: american independence, secession conflicts, e. g.
