CONFLICT

=Conflict =

Conflict surrounds us. It is the meat of our entertainment, the core of every piece of drama. How we deal with conflict defines our lives and sometimes our deaths. We are bombarded in the media by the images and sounds of conflict. Our personal lives are full of examples of conflict, even if it is only an inner conflict we feel when making a decision! What to wear! What to wear!

Major conflicts have shaped the political face of the planet as we know it and the effects of all still reverberate in, among other things, attitudes, economics, political boundaries, the ethnic mix of a population, who lives where, why my mother will not watch certain things on television, why my father suddenly tears up and can't speak sometimes, and why the man walking down the street in front of you hunches his shoulders and looks for cover when he hears the Nine News helicopter overhead on a bright, cloudless Adelaide morning. Major conflict have shaped Australia in obvious and subtle ways. Our involvement in them has changed us as a people and as a nation. Links have been forged that would otherwise have been unnecessary or unthinkable. Bonds exist in the most unlikely quarters and we celebrate endings rather than beginnings.

There are different kinds and levels of conflict just as there are different ways in which to resolve conflicts. How minor and personal conflicts are resolved gives us an idea about how conflict is handles on a larger scale and in the public arena. Often the way conflict is handled in the public arena teaches us more about how not to do things than it does about how to resolve conflict successfully.

So what is conflict? See mind map page for a review of what we covered in class.

In class we will brainstorm examples of conflict from you r experiences. We will look at the examples and try to classify them into categories.

Following the brainstorm and categorization exercise we will conduct a media search for example of each of the categories we have identified.

TASK: Find one example of each level of conflict identified. Local, national, international/ global) Stick each cutting to an A4 piece of paper and make sure each has the following:
 * **title** ( name of the article/ headline)
 * **writer** (byline)
 * **name** of the newspaper
 * **date** of the newspaper from which the cutting came
 * **level of conflict** identified ( local, national international/ global)
 * **Summary** of incident/ issue.(200 words on the reverse of the article page) Include:
 * **who** was/ is involved?
 * **what** happened/ is happening?
 * **when** did it happen/ is it likely to happen?
 * **where** did it happen/ is it happening/ will it happen?
 * **how** was/ is the conflict ( being)resolved? (the article may not provide this information in which case you must think of a reasonable solution based on your knowledge of the incident)
 * **why** did it happen? ( This is where you need to use your powers of insight and refer back to the major causes of conflict discussed in the lesson. Do your chosen conflicts fit any of the causes of conflicts categories outlined?)

Present your article analysis in your Global Learnings folder.