Topic Resources: Conflict and Peace

Local and Global Perspectives

Resource: IS losing control of conflict zones
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27838034

Resource: Article on problems in Sweden where smacking children was banned in 1979
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-sweden-right-to-spare-the-rod-a-new-book-has-attacked-the-1979-decision-to-ban-smacking-8916458.html

Resource: Arguments against spanking children
Web Link: http://www.neverhitachild.org/haeuser.html

Resource: Plight of Syrian war refugee children
Web Link: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/commentary/education-can-bring-hope-girls-who-are-victims-wars-and-unrest

Resource: Syrian refugees die in Mediterranean Sea: Stories of survivors
Web Link: http://www.channel4.com/news/migrants-mediterranean-survivors-boat-sink-deaths-europe

Resource: What if civil war came here?
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/if-london-were-syria-save-the-children-releases-unsettling-video-9168988.html

Resource: Findings that video games do not make us more violent
Web Link: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/nov/10/video-games-violent-study-finds

Resource: Ukraine peace deal in grave danger
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31463007

Resource: The suffering of citizens in the Ukraine war
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31759405

Resource: Numbers of people displaced internally by conflict at all-time high
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-32608172
Scenarios

Resource: US accuses Chinese cyber hackers of spying
Web Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/us-charges-chinese-military-hackers-with-cyber-espionage-bid-to-gain-advantage-in-nuclear-power-metals-and-solar-product-industries-9397661.html

Courses of Action and Personal Response

Resource: UN home page
Web Link: http://www.un.org/en/

Resource: UN initiatives for peace through sport
Web Link: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/sport/

Resource: Prisons use sport to reform members of Boko Haram
Web Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34217187