Conflict, Cooperation, and Security

Analyze the causes and challenges of continuing and new conflicts by describing:

  • tensions resulting from ethnic, territorial, religious, and/or nationalist differences.
  • causes of and responses to ethnic cleansing/genocide/mass killing.
  • local and global attempts at peacekeeping, security, democratization, and administration of international justice and human rights.
  • the types of warfare used in these conflicts, including terrorism, private militias, and new technologies.

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