[Transitional Justice 3001F/G] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Transitional Justice
• Course: Transitional Justice 3001F/G
• Professor: David Hoogenboom

Document Summary

Focus on peacebuilding: building democracies, tj mechanisms, ddr, economic reconstruction and market creation. 1980s and 1990s post cold-war was the rise of armed conflict as a term: outbreaks of internal armed conflict, often over power or land, government vs. (cid:498)other(cid:499) group. Need to become politicized in order to become an ethnic nation and thus becomes dangerous. Politicization occurs when political and status ideas emerge. Threat to existence via ethnic entrepreneurs who drive mobilization of an ethnic group to think against outside groups. Is a linear story with a variety of variables coming together. Such groups exhibit a strong psychological sentiment of belonging to the. Ethnic conflict: conflict between two or more groups that view themselves as being part of distinct ethnic groups group. Global systemic sources of conflict: colonialism use of (cid:498)divide and conquer(cid:499) often produced violent conflicts in post-colonial societies. Hutu rose up and were given power upon independence.