Conflict Indicators-Based Analysis

She intertwines her experiences in the industry of aid and development to a shocking revelation that a general being of the society wouldn’t be aware of. The author persists that in order to progress with sustainable development goals we first need to be aware of our own involvement. We are all consumers of war, and therefore we are connected to war. She determines that aid should not be militarized rather should remain neutral for its sanctity to provide only civilian relief. When it is militarized, it is politicized and loses its legitimacy. The author perpetuates her three main sustainable development goals; first to eliminate gender divide by investing in women and girls. Second, she eradicates the need for decent work and economic growth for youths in order to prevent them from becoming militants and rather serving their nation as educated leaders. The final sustainable development goal that the author persists is peace, justice and strong institutions. Post war nations have now become lawless and crimes are being committed without perpetrators being held accountable. She suggests that there needs to be a greater investment of legal mechanisms within those nations. Nutt believes in long-term sustainable goals however these can be criticized to be only in the hands of great nation leaders. Though now we are greatly aware, we cannot resolve issues that are highly political. To

William responded well to the intervention. William continues to make progress towards his goals. William stated, with his peers over a stupid game, and with his sibling, over using his belonging without asking. William stated that his mom intervene before the conflict between him and his brother escalated. William completed the conflict assessment worksheet. William stated that when he respond to conflict it usually escalates. William stated, yelling fighting using profanity making threats, running away and destroying things. William completed the worksheet. William stated, disagreement with his parent, siblings, being treated like a kid, being punish and losing privileges. William stated sometimes. William stated by fighting, ignoring it

1a. Who was involved in the conflict? What was the relationship between the participants prior to the conflict? Did it appear as if the relationship between the participants had any impact on how either person responded to the conflict?

Theoretically significant to conflict is social identity theory. It allows “predictions to incorporate who is likely to perceive and act in group terms, to remain committed to the group in times of crisis” Turner (1999), Doosje & Ellemers, (1999). Bar-Tal stresses conflict exists when an incompatible goal exists between two groups. The question of when incompatibility sets become important in understanding the cause of inter-ethnic or communal conflicts for instance, even more importantly; conflict within ingroup. Inter-ethnic or communal conflict because within the scope of peacebuilding, that is the point where building peace thrives the most. There is an assumption that for peacebuilding to be

  In Sub-Sahara Africa, during the last four decades thirty-five major armed conflicts have occurred, taking the lives of almost ten million people. There is a high correlation between the risk of conflict and a low ranking on the Human Development Index (HDI), due to the weak capacities and inability of these poor countries to guarantee the security of its citizens, rebellions and conflict have a high occurrence rate. United Nations has observed that conflicts

In developing countries such as Sierra Leone and Sudan, there are many types of violence, propaganda, and corruption used to create this vulnerability, which leads to vicious cycles of displacement and war. The corruption that is present in these governments is rather significant and the fear that is instilled into civilians by the military or militia causes a power imbalance. Furthermore, the abuse of drugs and alcohol is caused by the lack of education in many of these developing countries. Civilians are persuaded to join these organizations with the use of drugs such and cocaine and crack. The lack of availability of education and awareness of the effects of such drugs puts civilians in a vulnerable position. Being born in certain developing countries comes with everlasting conflict, which commonly leads to vulnerable environments and further displacement. Most of the time these conflicts arise over natural resources, religion or contrasting political views. The current action being taken by foreign aid has had a very minor impact. New Statesman writer Dinaw Mengestu discusses African literature comparing past to present, “Growing up in the United States, I was acutely aware of how everything I saw and heard about my native Ethiopia was being translated...We died by the millions, and with the exception of a handful of thoughtful accounts by western journalists, little was said and done from the outside, and even less was uttered out loud from within” (Mengestu, 2007). This further reflects the issue of not being recognized on a global scale and being misinterpreted by the rest of society. In order to protect these civilians from the corruption, violence and propaganda, there is a need for further action. Firstly, this issue needs to be recognized and humanized by foreign governments. The amount of awareness needs to drastically increase in order for civilians and foreign

The three stories that I am going to talk about are “A story of conflicts” by Yeghia Aslanian, “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan and “My way of theirs” by Liu Zongren. We can see how difficult is to made relationships when you move from one place to another and the culture is different. In the story of Zongren I see that people in China were so conservative at that time, and if sometime was unusual people will look at you and weird way. I want to mention this quote as example “her blouse was too open at the neck”. People in general have different thoughts, and custom around the world. Nowadays everything is more liberal and open mind. Also the people do not look at you in bad way for the way that you are wearing you can go out how you want it, wear whatever you want, etc. Is hard to live in a place that you have to take care of everything and do the things how people thing that are correct, because if you don’t, people will start talking about you and then you can get bad reputation.

Importantly, my project raises questions about how to better understand the relationship of donors and recipients to reduce the disconnection between projects that donors support and actual needs of recipients. The disconnection of donors and recipients caused damage to Congo, and the disconnection is a issues that effects how effective international aid is to a country. Importantly, further research needs to be conducted to gauge the impact of community-based projects, over the issue-based project to understand if one is a more effective use of aid. The aid process needs to involve native intellectuals, community leads, and other the communities to better accesses issues that affect the recipients of aid. Ultimately, there needs to be further research on the consequences, intended and unintended, for over reporting on a single issue of a conflict, because the simplification of a conflict into a single issue can cause damage by those with the intention to

Conflict perspective- Ms. Johnson is experiencing the conflict perspective, due to the kids moving in with her. She is used to living alone and living on a very conservative budget to support herself. Eventually, with Ron and Rosalind coming to live her living arrangements and financially will drastically change. Ms. Johnson is feeling a little of psychodynamic perspective also with the kids living with her. She expresses to the social worker that they are driving her a little crazy. Fortunately, Shirley enrolled the kids in preschool before she was sent to prison. This gives Ron and Rosalind a social support. They will be in a safe environment and they will be learning things to help prepare them for school. The kid’s physical and cognitive

Firstly, the bibliography is not representative of the vast existing literature about conflict, development and violence (Jones and Rodgers 2011).The majority of the literature mentioned is based on quantitative parallels between economic and political aspects and conflict. This goes against the World Bank claims that “Our approach is multidisciplinary and draws on both quantitative and qualitative evidence” (2011, p. 73). The lack of qualitative data is also apparent in the report’s explanation that it structure is adequate with theories of violence in various disciplines with the use of box 3.4 page 104 that is based on the research of economists. Even tough they are prominent scholars in the violence and conflict debate; they are novice in this debate that emerged with classic figures that are not mentioned in the bibliography such as Machiavelli arguing that conflict contributes to the stability of the society (in Jones and Rodgers 2011, p.983). Hobbes is mentioned only once page 75. This is also the case for Tilly (2003) that is considered as one of the most prominent scholars that have studied the relation between violence and the state. The main idea in his work is about what work does violence and conflicts do and make a distinction between many types of violence, what the report does not. Finally, Galtung developed the idea of peacebuilding, insisting on the formation of peacebuilding structure in

Even in today’s world, such conflicts are manifested, particularly in poor countries, without a resolution in such a long and drawn out social dilemma.

A few of the hundreds of NGO’s operating in Afghanistan include the World Health Organization, World Bank, British Agencies Afghan group, and Afghans for Civil Society. While each of these organizations takes on the battle in a different way, they are all aiming towards the same goal at the end of the fight; Peace for the Afghan people. Some of these organizations decide to take on this battle by aiding with things such as health care, agricultural development, building programs, emergency relief, or school reconstruction. Despite the efforts of these NGO’s, many problems have arisen, making it hard to maintain ideal structural stability for the organizations working within the state. A main concern for humanitarians across the globe is the “blurred line” that has occurred as a result of the inability to decipher between aid workers, and military troops. This has caused the Afghan people to become vary, and can result in a lack of trust for those trying to administer support. Western governments have also proceeded to voice the idea of the ‘comprehensive approach’ to peacekeeping. This approach focuses on the idea that militaries, aid workers, politicians and civilians should all work together to provide ‘complex solutions to complex emergencies.’ ("Civil-Military Relations in Afghanistan”). The inability to disentangle the

The community, just like a person in terms of the people centred approach, knows what it wants and what is most necessary for it to achieve its goals. In light of this, the facilitator need to make sure that they understand the views of the community in order to assess it. This involves prioritising what the community needs, why it needs it and how to implement a plan that will aid in satisfying these

As new variations of ‘community’ programs and ‘community’ engagement emerge, many programs and organizations have been created for the so-called betterment of society. The term ‘community’ is particularly vague and value-laden; it is often a term that glosses over the social, economic and cultural differentiation of localities or peoples (Head, 2007). Local communities and community organizations can contribute to the process of social change, but one problem is that the term ‘social change’ can signify different meanings (DeFilippis et al, 2010). For example from the standpoint of this course, we would determine social change as a dismantling and restructuring of the current status quo, but on the other hand certain organizations could describe

Conflicts are international problems and require global rather than national effort to eliminate and therefore the international society to recognize it to eliminate the institutions that make war likely. Therefore, the humanitarian organizations have increasingly stressed the need for the international community to embrace principles of human rights, diversity, good governance and participation when responding to situations of insecurity and violent conflict (Botha, 1989). Ethnic conflicts are therefore often caused by an attempt to secure more power or access more resources and in states that have those that have ended, they seem to have difficulties in reconciling the communities (Horowitz, 1985). The first theory is Gurr 's relative deprivation theory which offers an explanation based on an ethnic groups ' access to power and economic resources (Gurr, 1970). This is closely related to Horowitz, who wrote that group worth is based on the results of economic and political competitions. The second theory is from the primordial school and stresses the uniqueness and the overriding importance of ethnic identity. From their point of view, ethnicity is a biological and fixed characteristic of individuals and communities (Geertz , 1963). Additionally, scholars ' attention has also shifted to the nature of ethnic conflict and violence because the post-Cold War era has been marked by the rebirth of ethnic conflict like in South Sudan and even genocide in