ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: New Idea, Rationality, Relative Deprivation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

Ech-1100 - introduction to the study of conflicts and human. Week 5 - the socio-psychological causes of conflict. ***up to this class you can start studying for midterm. Gives you dichotomy cause of conflicts (one or the other) Why you think 1 cause or a set of causes result in a conflict. Compare/contrast conflict same and differences: build paper as a comparative. No historical review but set context (few lines) Are you explaining why conflict occurred then or setting a historic overview of what happened: documentary starts with historical review. Can you in gen. way understand what happened in 21st century. A factor tree for root causes of terrorism. Understanding mental process of motion of grievances. Old wars fought as interstate wars, suddenly new type of war: rwanda and yugoslavia, brutality of ordinary ppl neighbours killing neighbours. New idea of criminal enterprise in terms of warfare. 2001 final proof terrorism attacking us new strategies.