1. Contemporary Global
Issues
Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
Charles Coyle

2. Overview
• GlobalTensions and Conflicts
• Mass Extermination
–Causes and Responses
• Addressing the Problem
• Terrorism and Private Militias

3. GlobalTensions & Conflicts
• Ethnic
Differences
• Religious
Differences
• Territory
Disputes
• Nationalist
Differences

4. Religious/Ethnic Conflict
Israel & Palestine
• Struggle for
control of
Jerusalem
• Mutual
Recognition
• Water

5. Religious/Ethnic Conflict
Northern Ireland
• Catholics vs.
Protestants
• Irish Republican
Army (IRA)

6. Territory Disputes
Kashmir
• Not just 1 v. 1
–China, Pakistan,
India, Kashmir
• Water (again)

7. Nationalistic Differences
Taiwan
• Claimed by
People’s
Republic of
China (PRC)
• Not legitimate
• Global
recognition

8. Mass Extermination:Where
• Cambodia – 1970’s
• Rwanda – 1994
• Bosnia – 1995
• Darfur – Ongoing

9. Mass Extermination:Why
• Cambodia – Political ideology
• Rwanda – Ethnic/Power struggles
• Bosnia – Religious differences
• Darfur – Racism

10. AddressingThe Problem
• United Nations
Deployment
–Peacebuilding
–Peacemaking
–Peacekeeping
• Democratization
• International
Human Rights

11. AddressingThe Problem
• Government
–Economic & Legal sanctions
–Official Positions
• Public
–Popular media exposure
–Charitable organizations

12. • Genocide Intervention Network
– www.genocideintervention.net
• IGAAR: Institute for Genocide Awareness
and Applied Research
– www.igaar.org
• Save Darfur
– www.savedarfur.org
AddressingThe Problem

13. Terrorism:Tactics

14. Private Militias
• Darfur
–Janjaweed
• Rwanda
–Interahamwe
–Impuzamugambi
• Cambodia
–Cadres of the Khmer Rouge

15. “Are all humans human, or are
some more human than others?
Do some actually count more
than others?”
- Roméo Dallaire

16. Citations
• USArmy Africa, “J-300-SPT-94-04-0004-0686”, July 23, 2009, via Flickr,
Creative CommonsAttribution
• REUTERS / Amit Shabi, ISRAEL,October 13, 2000
• REUTERS / Cathal McNaughton, NORTHERN IRELAND, March 10, 2009
• Vice Regent, “Kashmir 2007”, July 31, 2007, viaWikipedia, Creative
CommonsAttribution Share Alike
• Sjjhang, “Taiwan ROC Passport”, March 12, 2009, viaWikipedia, Public
Domain
• Dawit Rezene, “Soldiers in Eritrea”, viaWikipedia,Creative Commons
Attribution ShareAlike
• idfnakesk (Israel Defense ForcesYouTube Channel), “HamasTerrorist
Tactics in the Gaza Strip”, uploaded April 22, 2009, viaYouTube