Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 11: Why is it so difficult to keep the peace in the world today?
Section 5: Who could bring peace to this area?
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Objectives |
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- about legal systems and law enforcement, and how they are applied at different levels
- how minority rights can be safeguarded
- about the importance of resolving conflict fairly
- about the world as a global community
- about social, cultural, ethnic and religious diversity in other societies
- about attempts to set up effective peace-keeping organisations over the past 100 years
- about the work of international voluntary organisations
- to make links between the event being studied and other conflicts and peace-keeping efforts
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Activities |
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- Pupils discuss law enforcement at various levels of authority: the family; the school; Britain; the world. Who makes the rules at each level? Who enforces them? Why is it easier to enforce laws at school, for example, than in the world?
- Continue the discussion, comparing the family with the school level and seeing why the international level does not work the same way. What 'crimes' can a country, or a government, commit? What can the rest of the world do about them? Who has the right to intervene to stop a government behaving badly?
- Textbook investigation: What powers does the United Nations have? Why is/isn't it involved in this conflict? Find examples of: military intervention; economic sanctions; and moral condemnation.
- Follow-up activity: pupils find out about the work of one international voluntary organisation active in the area of conflict.
- Summarise with a discussion: What are the most effective ways of intervening to halt the conflict and prevent mistreatment of minorities and human rights abuses?
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- understand that legal controls on behaviour function at different levels. That international law enforcement presents particular problems
- know that there is an international community, that it upholds human rights and that efforts to enforce these rights have increased in recent years
- appreciate that the actions of political and military leaders have a human impact and that different groups in society may be affected in different ways
- understand that abuse of human rights affects us all
- understand some of the problems of achieving reconciliation and the skills it requires
- know about the work of international voluntary organisations
- appreciate the importance of resolving conflict fairly
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Points to note |
- This section could be linked with unit
3 'Human Rights'.
- If the focus is on the Balkans, pupils could be reminded of the principle of self-determination established by the Treaty of Versailles.
- If the conflict being studied is European, then questions could be posed about the role of NATO and the EU.
- If appropriate to the conflict studied, pupils could be given maps showing where the different factions live. Use this to discuss, for example, why peace-keeping is difficult or how to ensure that minority groups have their human rights protected.
- Examples of failed peace-keeping could be introduced here if they have been part of the key stage 3 history course. Alternatively, comparisons could be made with similar disagreements in other parts of the world. For example, border issues in the Balkans could be compared with the Middle East or Northern Ireland.
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