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Cultural Construction of Violent Conflict

Outline for Portion of Lecture Based on Robbins’ Text

I. Questions to Pose To Understand How Bias Towards Violence is Created

II.Possible Answers to the Question of How Bias Towards Violence is Created

III.How do Societies Create a Bias Against Violent Conflict?

IV.What Are the Differences Between Peaceful and Violent Societies?

V.What are the Effects of War on Society?

Refugees

Refugee definition used by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which is the agency which handles immigration to the United States:

A refugee is an alien outside the United States who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country because of well-founded fear of persecution.Claims of persecution must be based on race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion (INS 1996: p. 72).