AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY/MELLOR
ETHNIC CONFLICT
NAME___________________________________
ETHNIC CONFLICT SINCE 1947
With one exception
Prepare for duplication to your classmates a report on religious and/or ethnic conflict.
TOPICS
Rwanda: Tutsis v Hutus
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Cyprus: Turks v Greeks, 1974
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Sudan: Moslem v Christian
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Malaysia: Malay v Chinese
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Nigeria: North v South
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Sri Lanka: Tamil v Sinhalese
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Kenya: Mau Mau uprising
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Turkey: Kurds v Turks
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Lebanon: Christian v Moslem, 1980’s
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Northern Ireland: Catholic v Protestant
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Kashmir: Moslem v Hindu
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Kosovo: Serb v Moslem
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Bosnia: Serb v Moslem
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Chechnya
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Mindanao: Moslem Insurgency
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East Timor Secession, 1999
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Fiji Islands
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Ethiopia-Eritrea: secession
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Algeria overthrow of French
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Kurdistan
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Ivory Coast
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Mongols v Han Chinese 2010-
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Hindu v Muslim, Indian sub-continent 1948
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Armenians v Turks 1917 -
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If you are making a presentation you do not write a paper. You will write a paper in the Politics
unit
If you are NOT making a presentation you must prepare a paper. You will do a presentation in the
Politics unit.
PRESENTATION
You should cover the following:
Location of conflict
Reason for conflict
The parties/groups/involved
Geographic factors involved (resources, barriers, demography, etc)
Numbers involved (killed, size of groups)
Current status and/or resolution
Your maps should:
Locate the conflict on a world map
Locate the conflict on country/region map
Provide relevant information to crisis e.g. size of Kurdistan, the split in Nigeria
Any other relevant map
Requirements:
No more than 12 slides
No more than 10 words per slide (except cartoons, maps, statistical tables)
Presentations should be ten minutes in length – be sure to practice to get in under time limit.
On the day following your presentation:
Submit notes and other materials.
Rubric:
There will be a rubric for evaluating the presentations. This will be distributed ahead of the
presentations.
PAPERS
Your written report should run no more than 3pp, before maps. Typed.
Papers are due Dec 20th 2011
SOME SOURCES:
Alertnet
Al Jazeera
AI - Amnesty International
BBCnews
CNN
GEES - Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos
Global Security
HIIK - Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research
HRW - Human Rights Watch
ICG - International Crisis Group
ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross
IISS - The International Institute for Strategic Studies
IRIN - Integrated Regional Information Networks
Le Monde Diplomatique
NYTimes
Peacereporter
Project Ploughshares
Reuters
SIPRI - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
USIP united States Institute of Peacee
UNPO Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization