ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jamestown Foundation, Chatham House, Ontario Scholar
19 Feb 2016
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Ech-1100 introduction to the study of conlicts and human. Stockholm int"l peace research institute http://www. sipri. org: huge database about conflicts. The int"l relations and security network http://isn. ethz. ch/ Global conflict tracker http://www. cfr. org/global/global-conflict- tracker/p32137#!: good for starting research. Department of peace and conflict research http://www. pcr. uu. se/research/ucdp/ Start for global intelligence http://www. stratfor. com: look for journals. Mexico: level of violence very high, criminal violence. Main conlicts that have shaped way we understand ethnic/civi/interstate wars. Understand relationship btwn what is said and done. Interdisciplinary subject: int"l law, poli sci and sociology. Very good - ability to take from dif. ields; learn other perspectives: conlict resol, psych and criminology. Conlict and human rights is complex and multi-faceted. Causes of conlict (3): denying basic liberal human rights. Torture, abductions: consequences of conlict rapes, child soldiers torture, genocide, extrajudicial killings, transformers of conlict dynamics. Reiication (how you take for granted) of identity. Idea that identity is frozen in time, in certain, given way: e. g.
