CWI: Causes of Conflict
• Objectives: 1. locate
background information
related to your topic 2.
focus in on primary source
material related to your
topic 3. to be introduced to
two new databases for
locating information
• Agenda:
1. Graphic Organizers
2. Types of Causes
3. ABC-CLIO
4. Gale Opposing Viewpoints
• Date: 04/03/12
• HW: Continue to locate
primary and secondary
source information related
to your topic
• Entry Task: Log-in to your
computer
Graphic Organizers
•Full Paper
•Conflict Map
Types of Causes
• Geographic: to describe or write about the earth
– 5 parts include location, place,
human/environment interaction, movement and
regions
• Political: of or relating to your views about social
relationships involving authority or power
• Economic: a trade system of a country – the
labor, land, resources and the people that
produce and consume goods and services
Types of Causes
• Cultural: Ways of living built up by a group of
people
• Sociological: A study of society, human social
interaction, and the rules and processes that bind
and separate people not only as individuals, but
as members of associations, groups and
institutions
• Psychological: the study of the behavior and
mental characteristics of a specific individual,
group, activity or circumstance
Example
If my topic is child labor, one factor/cause could
be because developing countries do not have
job opportunities or social programs to assist
poor families. If developing countries had more
of these opportunities the dependence on
child/minors in the family to work would be
minimized or eliminated. The perspective of this
factor would best be described as economical.
ABC-CLIO
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Available Sections
Analyze Feature
Basic Search Feature
Advanced Search Function
Gale Opposing Viewpoints
• Information Organized by Topic
• Basic Search Function
• Tools Box