ECH 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Complex Adaptive System, Political Instability Task Force, Rational Agent

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

Document Summary

Denying basic liberal human rights, discrimination, repression, torture, abduction. They are killing each other because they are different ethnicities. Majority of terrorists, freedom fighters are rational people. Don"t always accept defintions as truth everything it subjective. Interaction btwn 2 or more parties (antagonistic: hostility/opposition may not be a compromise (no third party mediator wanted) May be + or -; some conflict may be good=larger outcome. Objectives: goals people set for themselves when something is important (what r interests?) Identity persons balance, self-esteem, empowerment, ethnicity, religion, gender, orientation: identity is repressed by another group=conflict. Values one believes should be upheld in society so people can be happier and live better: justice, equality, liberty, order, religion core of conflicts. Material and resources fighting and resources identity related (ethnicity and religion) fighting to preserve ethnic right or survival distributional (zero-sum game) land redistribution/water supply: 1 has access, other doesn"t. Rational choice approach resource wars (congo) & land redistribution/water supply.