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Violent Conflict Sierra Leone
963 wordsConflict From Environmental Scarcity or Lust For Wealth? In "Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict, " Thomas F. Homer-Dixon writes about the possible conflicts that are caused by environmental scarcities, using three different hypotheses's to do so. I found the first hypothesis to be most compelling because I feel it is the most prevalent in the world today. The first hypothesis in "Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict" states that environmental scarcity causes simple-scarcity c...
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Study On Drugs Violence And Economics
1,682 words... eileen drug distributors and law enforcement. [ 19 ] The most obvious determinant of the amount of such violence is the amount of law enforcement directed against drugs within the U. S. This should include both efforts against the distribution network and efforts against small scale and home production, since either can lead to violent conflict. In addition, one would expect that the willingness of drug distributors to employ violence against law enforcement would depend on the amount at sta...
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Irish Republican Army Sri Lanka
7,371 wordsThis paper asks: how can economic development in Global South nations can be better managed, so as to reduce the potential for violent ethnic conflict? To answer this we must pose a prior question: why is economic development so often accompanied by violent ethnic conflict? Viewing economic development and ethnic conflict as linked problems requires reassessment of two widely accepted schools of thought about the relationship between these phenomena. One school, prevalent in the 1950 s and 1960 ...
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Violent Conflict North America
1,068 wordsThe Eternal Struggle Aggression. Bloodshed. Pain. Death. These are just some of the unfortunate side affects which accompany the phenomenon of life. These factors are also intertwined with the methodical process of evolution, which, although often cruel and merciless, is nonetheless beneficial to any species of animal, including, and perhaps especially, humans. Without violent conflict causing the death of the weak and survival of the strong, it is highly unlikely that we, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, ...
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Play An Important Role Schools Of Thought
1,108 wordsTo prevent and resolve violent conflict we must understand the sources and logic of war. Two schools of thought currently dominate thinking on the causes of contemporary conflict. The first sees violence as a response to a range of grievances including systematic discrimination and human rights violations, inequalities in wealth and political power, or a scarcity of resources, particularly where these fall along existing social cleavages such as ethnicity or religion. The second characterizes wa...
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