Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)

Unit 11: Why is it so difficult to keep the peace in the world today?

Resources

Resources include:

appropriate news information from press and TV
wall maps and a historical atlas
range of history textbooks for reference purposes
where possible, visitors from international voluntary organisations or with personal experience as refugees
useful websites for a study of the Balkan conflict, eg

www.nato.int (Nato)
www.kforonline.com (Nato website for Kosovo Force)
www.un.org (United Nations)
http://europa.eu.int (European Parliament)
www.osce.org (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
www.gov.yu (Yugoslav Government)
www.kosovo.com (site of Serbian Kosovans)

useful websites of voluntary organisations, eg
- http://welcome.to/UKKRR (UK Kosovo Refugee Relief)
- www.dec.org.uk (Disasters Emergency Committee)
- www.amnesty.org.uk (Amnesty International)
- www.hrw.org (Human Rights Watch)
other useful websites, eg
- www.bbc.co.uk
- www.nytimes.com/learning/general (New York Times Learning Network)
- www.worldbook.com/fun/html/fun.htm (World Books Fun and Learning)
- http://web.mit.edu/cascon (online history-based conflict analysis)

NB: care should be taken when encouraging pupils to access websites

Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.


	1. What is the fighting about this time?
	2. What is really happening to the people involved in the current conflict?
	3. What are the roots of this conflict?
	4. How do we know whom to believe about this crisis?
	5. Who could bring peace to this area?
	6. Why is it so difficult to keep the peace?