Vocab
WHO'S INVOLVED?
SOURCES & CAUSES
RELATIONSHIPS
HISTORY & DURATION
Response
Case studies
100

This term describes a person who has been forced to flee their home but remains within their own country's borders.

What is an Internally Displaced Person (IDP)?

100

This type of conflict occurs between two or more individuals.

What is interpersonal conflict?

100

When two nations both claim ownership of an oil field in disputed waters, this is the primary source of their conflict.

What are conflicts over resources?

100

When one side in a conflict has more control than the other, this exists.

What is a power imbalance?

100

This term describes how long a conflict has lasted.

What is duration?

100

When parties deny, ignore, or back off from a conflict, they're using this response.

What is avoidance?

100

This conflict created the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, with over 6 million people fleeing to neighboring countries by 2023.

What is the Russia-Ukraine War?

200

These are negative conditions like conflict, persecution, or poverty that drive people away from their homes.

What are push factors?

200

The Russia-Ukraine War is an example of this type of conflict, involving two nations.

What is an international conflict?

200

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was primarily driven by this source, as African Americans demanded dignity, equality, and the right to self-determination.

What are conflicts over psychological needs?

200

This describes how much each party depends on the other to achieve important goals.

What is interdependence?

200

This describes how often a conflict reemerges or comes back.

What is frequency?

200

This response means each side gives up something to reach an agreement.

What is compromise?

200

The drawing of the Radcliffe Line in just 5 weeks created chaos during this 1947 event, as communities had little time to prepare for the new borders.

What is Partition (of India)?

300

This term describes the process by which refugees become part of a new community while maintaining their cultural identity.

What is integration?

300

This type of conflict happens within a single group, institution, or organization.

What is intragroup conflict?

300

When a secular government bans religious practices or when religious groups demand faith-based laws, this is the source of conflict.

What are conflicts over values?

300

DAILY DOUBLE - A relationship described as unfriendly or aggressive is this.

What is hostile?

300

How life-threatening or emotionally charged a conflict is describes this quality.

What is intensity?

300

This approach focuses on repairing harm and rebuilding relationships, valuing community continuity.

What is restorative justice?

300

Though it began with hopes for democracy, this movement led to civil wars in Syria, Libya, and Yemen, with only Tunisia achieving a relatively stable transition.

What is the Arab Spring?

400

This is the difference between a refugee and this person: their protection status has not yet been officially determined.

What is an asylum seeker?

400

Climate change is often considered this type of conflict because it affects all people and nations worldwide.

What is a global conflict?

400

Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the fighting in the Donbas region demonstrate that the Ukraine conflict is rooted in this dimension 2 category, specifically involving geography and sovereignty.

What are conflicts over resources (land/territory)?

400

In Dimension 3 terms, the relationship between East and West Berlin during the Cold War was characterized by these THREE climate factors: suspicious rather than trusting, hostile rather than friendly, and this third descriptor related to the constant threat of conflict.

What is emotionally tense (or what are suspicious, hostile, and emotionally tense)?

400

According to dimension 4, the longer a conflict exists, it generally becomes this: more or less complex and difficult to resolve?

What is more complex/difficult?

400

Double Your Score Round - When one side adapts or adjusts to the other's demands, this is the response.

What is accommodation?

400

Chicago, Detroit, and New York saw their African American populations increase by over 400% between 1910-1970 due to this demographic shift.

What is the Great Migration?

500

DAILY DOUBLE - This term means having many different aspects or dimensions; complex and not easily simplified to one cause. 

What is multifaceted?

500

This type of conflict is based on groups' positions in relation to a geographical boundary.

What is a transboundary conflict?

500

Jim Crow laws denied African Americans voting rights, education, and basic human dignity. The Great Migration was a response to the denial of this category of conflict source.

What are psychological needs?

500

These three climate descriptors help determine conflict intensity: friendly vs. hostile, calm vs. tense and trusting vs. ______, 

What is suspicious?

500

Conflicts can remain unresolved when people don't see them as compelling enough to address—this is the role of this factor.

What is perception?

500

Working together to solve a problem fairly is called this.

What is collaboration?

500

DAILY DOUBLE - The Khmer Rouge emptied cities and forced urban populations into agricultural labor camps, leading to mass starvation during this genocide. The regime particularly targeted the educated, claiming to restart society at "Year Zero."

What is the Cambodian Genocide?

600

This UN agency is responsible for protecting refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced persons worldwide.

What is UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)?

600

The Partition of India created this type of conflict, as it involved groups divided by a new border between India and Pakistan.

What is a transboundary/international conflict?

600

Partition violence erupted between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs over the new borders, but the underlying tension came from religious identity and governance philosophy. Name all TWO primary sources of this conflict.

What are conflicts over values and resources (territory)?

600

During the Great Migration, African Americans and Southern white communities had this type of relationship: high frequency of interaction but deeply hostile and unequal.

What is a hostile relationship with power imbalance

600

The Cambodian Genocide had a relatively short duration (1975-1979) but this quality was extremely high, with an estimated 1.5-2 million deaths.

What is intensity?

600

During the Great Migration, African Americans chose this response: leaving the South entirely rather than fighting or compromising.

What is migration (or avoidance)?

600

In Dimension 5 terms, Ukrainians who fled to Poland demonstrated this response, while those who joined territorial defense forces showed direct force/competition. Many who remained in safer western Ukrainian cities demonstrated this third response.

What is migration/avoidance (for those who fled) and accommodation (for those who stayed)?

700

This term describes the underlying, fundamental reasons that lead to a problem or conflict, rather than just immediate triggers.

What are root causes?

700

The Arab Spring began as this type of conflict within individual countries before spreading regionally.

What is intragroup/intergroup conflict?

700

Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in 2010 after police harassment and economic hardship, sparking the Arab Spring. His act and the movement that followed were primarily about THIS combination of two conflict sources.

What are conflicts over psychological needs (dignity/respect) and resources (economic opportunity/jobs)?

700

In dimension 3, analysts ask if parties come from different cultures and know little about each other because this affects their ability to do what?

What is resolve the conflict (or understand each other/build trust)?

700

The post-war Germany conflict had what characteristics of duration and intensity? 

What is long duration and low intensity?

700

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission after apartheid is a famous example of this conflict response, which the Arab Spring countries largely failed to implement.

What is restorative justice?

700

Among all five case studies, these TWO conflicts share the characteristic of being transboundary conflicts where religious identity played a central role in determining which side of a border people belonged on.

What are Partition and the Arab Spring? (Accept: Partition and specific Arab Spring countries like Syria)

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