GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE CAMBRIDGE IGCSE: CONFLICT AND PEACE. Definitions, questions for the research project, global/international perspectives, local/national perspectives, family/personal perspectives, useful websites.

1. CONFLICT AND PEACE
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
CAMBRIDGE IGCSE P5

2. CONFLICT AND PEACE
• Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and
analyses violent and nonviolent behaviours as well as the structural
mechanisms attending conflicts (including social conflicts) with a view
towards understanding those processes which lead to a more
desirable human conditioner.
https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-
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3. QUESTIONS FOR YOUR
RESEARCH PROJECT

4. GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
• Why do wars and conflicts begin?
• Are wars an inevitable part of being human?
• Where is there conflict in the world today?
• What is the role of the UN in times of conflict?

5. LOCAL/NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
• Which groups seem to be in conflict within my own country or
community?
• Is it their interests or ideas that are conflicting?
• What political/ ethical systems enable people to live with their
differences?

6. FAMILY/PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
• What causes conflicts between me and my family or peers?
• How are these conflicts best resolved?
• How can this help me to understand conflict on a wider scale?

7. WEBSITES 1
www.amnesty.org.uk - Amnesty International.
www.everyhumanhasrights.org/ - Website promoting human rights
with case studies where human rights are under threat.
www.kimberleyprocess.com/home/index_en.html - Trade in Blood
Diamonds.
www.oneworld.net - News from over 1600 human rights websites.
www.un.org - United Nations website.
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/ - United Nations site for young
people.

8. WEBSITES 2
www.ipisresearch.be/?&lang=en - International Peace Information
Service.
www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/iraq/ - Information about the
Iraq war and other material on conflict and peace.
www.rafi.ki/gemin-iplus/ - Rafiki project: Blood Diamonds.
www.rafi.ki/gemin-iplus/ - Rafiki project: Roadmap to Peace.
www.rafi.ki/gemin-iplus/ - Rafiki project: Darfur: Impossible Choices.