conflicts and challenges

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identity
the sense of belonging to a group of geographical area where there is the same generic character, or a similarity of distinguishing character or personality.
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Nationalism
loyalty and devotion to a nation
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Regionalism
conciousness of and loyalty to a nation or a distinct region with a population that shares similarities.
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Localism
an affection for a particular place.
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Ethnicity
a grouping of people according to their ethnic origins or characteristics.
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Culture
the customary beliefs, social norms and traits of a racial, religious or social group and the set of shared attitudes, values and practices that characterise the group.
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Territory
a geographic area belonging to, or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority.
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Ideology
a systematic body of concepts regarding human life or culture.
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Patterns of conflict
international, national, regional, local
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The expression of conflict
non violent, political activity, terrorism, insurrection, war
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Conflict resolution
the means by which conflict at a variety of scales can be brought to an end
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Conflict over the use of a local resource
Manchester airport
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Resolving the conflict
market processes, planning processes or a combination of the two
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Market processes
where the ability of the organisation undertaking the project to pay the going rate takes precedence over any national concerns
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Planning processes
an attempt to provide a means by which local authority planners: listen to local community, listen to organisation responsible, has overall development control
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Israeli, palestinian conflict historical background
Seperated palestine into oe arab country and one jewish. in 1948 UN declared the state of israel. War broke out in 1948
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Impacts of the conflict
100,000 of palestinians left and more than 4 million are refugees
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2007/08
a radical group called hamas won palestinian elections and there has been constant conflict since
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Darfur, sudan
tension between the arabs and africans. it has been suffering civil war since 2003. 2 million have fled their home and 180000 have died. Started when rebel group attacked government targets. Opressing black african over arabs
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Multicultural societies
migration of ethnic groups leads to the creation of these societies. They are often the product of migration, and refugees.
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Ethnic segregation
a clustering together of people with similar ethnic or cultural characteristics into seperate urban residential areas. The largest is indian which forms 27% of the minority population.
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Reasons for development of these societies
jewish arrivals from russian persecution, irish people escaping poverty, jews and poles espacing fascism from ww2, carribean workers invited from british empire countries, asians from india, pakistan and bangladesh seeking work, 1970s- east afroasian
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Issues relating to multiculturalism: housing
multiple occupancy of rented accommodation in inner city areas leads to poor housing and cramped conditions, and also being discriminated against
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education
led to some schools being dominated by one thnic group which has effected requirements.
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Healthcare
higher concentration of communicable diseases in run down inner city areas.
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Language
may find it difficult to obtain employment and to integrate if they do not speak english
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Religion
friction between employers and migrants when they wish to adhere their own religious calenders.
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Economic issues
migrants now account for one eighth of UKs working age population
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Other social issues
putting pressure on healthcare and increased crime rate
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The nature of seperatism
when the people of a region feel alienated from central government they often seek to gain more political control
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Reasons for seperatism
an area which is economically depressed compared to a wealthier core, minority language or culture, religious group, exploitation produces little gain for region, peripheral to the government core, collapse of the state, strengthening of EU
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Basque, Spain
Basque area and catalonia
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Collapse of yugoslavia
yugoslavia and the formation of croatia, slovenia, bosnia and macedonia
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Consequences of seperatism
establishment and maintenance of societies and norms with clear identities, protection of a language, growth of seperate political parties, and developed parties, civil disobedience, terrorist violence, civil war
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The kurds
live in an area which crosses the borders of iraq, iran, syria, turkey, and former USSR.
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loyalty and devotion to a nation

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conciousness of and loyalty to a nation or a distinct region with a population that shares similarities.

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an affection for a particular place.

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a grouping of people according to their ethnic origins or characteristics.

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