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Conflict Flashcards

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What is conflict?

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State of disagreement caused by either the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests

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What are 4 main reasons for conflict?

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1) Identify
2) Ethnicity
3) Culture
4) Territory

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What is identity?

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Systematic body of concepts regarding human life/culture

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What is nationalism?

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Loyalty and devotion to a nation that creates a sense of national consciousness e.g. Scotland

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What are 4 patterns of conflict?

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1) INternationaol
2) National
3) Regional
4) Local

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What can expressions of conflict either be?

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Violent or non violent

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What are some examples of non-violent expressions of conflict?

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  • Political activity
  • Debate
  • Protest
  • Strikes
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How can a debate be a non-violent expression of conflict?

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Formal discussion of a notion before a deliberative body

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What are some examples of a violent expression of conflict?

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Terrorism: systematic use of fear among the public

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How can local conflict be resolved? What are the 4 stages?

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  • Planning officer
  • Planning Committee
  • Both sides taken into account and decision made
  • Can appeal if rejected
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What is a planning officers role in planning developments?

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  • Ensures dvlpt follows planning laws, e.g. suitable building time and house prices
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Who might make up a planning committee?

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  • Views of all interested parties

- Organisation that made proposal, local people

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What must be considered in the planning committee?

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  • Whether benefits outweigh negatives

- Whether development has wider benefits outside local area

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What can happen if planning developments are rejected?

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Appeal

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What is separatism?

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Where regions want to become separate from a larger group - the attempt by regional groups to gain more political control from central government over their area

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What are 5 examples of separatist pressures?

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1) Economic independence
2) Minority language
3) Minority religious grouping
4) Exploitation of local resources
5) Peripheral location to P/E core

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Why might economic independence make a region wish to be separate?

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  • Depressed area compared to wealthier or vice versa

- May be more wealthy if independent

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Why might a minority language or culture make a region wish to be separate?

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  • Maintenance and promotion of language
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Why might a minority religious grouping make a region wish to be separate?

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  • Can allow practice of religion without suffering from prejudice or discrimination
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Why might exploitation of local resources make a region wish to be separate?

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  • Resource to themselves

- Western Australia, rich in minerals

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Why might a peripheral location to the P/E core make a region wish to be separate?

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  • Far away
  • Little influence over decisions in comparison to those in the centre
  • Breakaway could result in stronger voice
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What is the main definition of a multicultural society?

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The status of different ethnic/racial/religious groupings coexisting in the same society

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What is one issue with definitions of multiculturalism?

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Subjective, some may view a MS as neutral, whereas others might view it as P/S

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What is the distribution of ethnic societies through out the UK?

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  • More live in England than S/W/I
  • London has 45% of migrants
  • Northern cities generally have higher MC pops
  • Industrial cities have higher concentrations of ethnic groups with exception of Norwich, Lpool, Exeter, Glasgow
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Why does the West of England have more multicultural socieities?

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  • Stereotypically viewed as less sheltered and more open minded than the East
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In a timeline of migration to the UK, what happened between the 1800s and 1950?

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  • Jews arrived as they moved from Poland/Russia
  • Irish potato famine
  • Jews and Poles arriving to escape persecution and fascism in Germany
  • Caribbean workers invited to help rebuild post-war Britain
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In a timeline of migration to the UK, what happened between 1950 and 1990s?

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50/60: Banglidesh and Pakistan women arrived for the textiles industry

70s: Escaping persecution after Viet war
90s: Eastern Europeans escaping war and political unrest

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