ENCOUNTERING CONFLICT Identifying appropriate conflict examples UNIT 4

ENCOUNTERING CONFLICT Identifying appropriate conflict examples UNIT 4 AOS 1

LESSON OBJECTIVE: Brainstorm a series of appropriate conflicts for this context study • Use key elements of conflict as identified in previous exams • Identify an appropriate conflicts • Explain how this links to elements of conflicts

Elements of conflicts on past exams 2013: ‘Conflict of conscience can be just as difficult as conflict between people. ’ 2012: ‘The experience of conflict changes people’s priorities. ’ 2011: ‘The ability to compromise is important when responding to conflict. ’ 2010: ‘It is difficult to remain a bystander in any situation of conflict. ’ 2009: ‘It is the victims of conflict who show us what is really important. ’ 2008: ‘In times of conflict ordinary people can act in extraordinary ways. ’

How to do it… Conflict of conscience Conflict changed priorities Changes priorities Difficult to remain a bystander Victims of Conflict Ordinary people acting in extraordinary ways The US government demonstrate that it is difficult to remain a bystander in a situation of conflict. They recently sent 300 military advisors into Iraq to help their military fight Sunni insurgents. While they have pledged not to send in military, these actions mirror those taken in the early 1950 s in Vietnam, symbolised through the characters of Pyle in Graham Greene’s ‘The Quiet American’.

How to do it… Conflict of conscience Conflict changed priorities Changes priorities Difficult to remain a bystander Victims of Conflict Ordinary people acting in extraordinary ways In Stalin’s Soviet Union, he reshaped Communism to maintain both his power and the Soviet Union’s position as a world power. However, his policies of collectivisation resulted in a famine in the Ukraine in the early 1930 s that claimed around six million lives. These victims demonstrate how Stalin’s compromise on Communist doctrine was a disaster.

Your turn Conflict of conscience Conflict changed priorities Changes priorities Difficult to remain a bystander Victims of Conflict Ordinary people acting in extraordinary ways Think of a conflict Link it to one of the above elements of conflict Explain how the conflict links to it Come up with as many ideas as you can in the next 20 minutes