GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cenotaph, Arab Spring, Al-Qaeda
11 Apr 2018
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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 state relatively regent. The geographies of conflict exist at a number of spatial scales. Conflict within the boundaries of a state. Meaningful places for nations: sites of commemorations example: cenotaph, military cemeteries, monuments, etc. Conflict: five main categories/type: between states. Examples: ww1 and ww2; vietnam; middle- east conflicts, etc: quest for independence. Examples: us, african states, etc: secession conflicts. Examples: quebec; basque; ireland; chechnya; taiwan; etc: civil war. Examples: syria; us; korea; yugoslavia, etc: conflict related to terrorism. Example: us- led invasions/war in afghanistan, iraq, etc. Global wars vs. civil wars and secessionist conflicts; approx. Civil wars and secessionist conflicts: ethnic or religious hatred vs. power and development; as countries develop the likelihood of internal conflict decline. I. e. the (cid:858)ara(cid:271) pri(cid:374)g(cid:859) a(cid:374)d popular uprisi(cid:374)gs.
