POL_S 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Rwandan Genocide, Human Capital, Opportunism
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Fed 23rd 12pm -1pm 308 bryan hall. Extra credit: write down 5 questions you want to ask dr. kila and bring (cid:1) on thursday (cid:1) Cyclical relationship: conflict harms the environment. Firewood collection after the rwandan genocide: environmental changes can cause conflict. Creates resources scarcity which increases grievances: conflict harms the economy. Average 3. 3% loss of annual gdp growth (average civil war is 5 years) Drain of educated, advanced human capital: economic downturns can cause conflict. Higher rates of civil war following recession (cid:1) (cid:1) Civil wars create public health crisis: population displacement. Rural to urban: infrastructure destruction, resource diversion (cid:1) (cid:1) Happens in both host and neighboring countries. Civil wars increase the probability of interstate war: common ethnic/religious ties think: putin in crimea, border protection, opportunism (sensing weakness) Foreign aid to civil war zones is generally intended to help civilians usually refugees (both internal and external: two schools of thought.
