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Category: War and conflict

  • War, Conflict and Development – Key Terms

    War and Conflict, Definitions of Key Concepts War – organized, armed, and often a ‘prolonged conflict’ that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties. It is intentional and widespread armed conflict between political communities Civil War – a war where the forces in conflict belong to the same nation or political entity and…

  • The United States Military: Some Recent Examples of Their War Crimes

    This material is relevant to the topic of ‘State Crime’ and ‘War and Conflict’ as an aspect of development. The point of it is to illustrate that the United States is pretty much the biggest military aggressor in recent world history, and thus a good candidate for the country which commits the worst state-crimes.  …

  • The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein – A Summary

    Naomi Klein is one of the leading thinkers in the anti-capitalist movement and this book is one of the most important historical narratives of this century. Taken from the web site – ‘At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the…