Fabrício Guerra Mr. Zhou GPHC 13 February 2021 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Today the Middle East is often portrayed as a mess ruled by three main superpowers: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. All of the instability of the area is mostly due to the world power's partitioning of the area after World War II, when decolonization was encouraged. They failed to make borders so that they were in accordance with cultural groups, and this led to governments having minorities, which always leads to instability. One of these more famous examples is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, which began in 1947 as part of the United Nation's Resolution 181 which divided the British Mandate of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. In 1948, the State of Israel was created and this created the First Israeli-Palestinian War. The war ended in 1949 as a victory for Israel, but there ended up being over 750,000 displaces Palestinians, and so the territory was divided into three parts, Th...
John Mazziotti Mr. Zhou GPHC February 3rd, 2021 Ukraine and Russia: Annexation of Crimea Conflict With Galtung’s Triangle In 2013 and 2014, Ukraine and Russia had a conflict that was sparked by a dispute over economic reform. The Ukrainian president at the time, Viktor Yanukovych, rejected an economic deal with the European Union. This, in-turn, sparked protests in the Ukranian Capital of Kiev. The state security forces of Ukraine engaged violently with the protesters involved, which sparked even more wide-spread protests in Ukraine. Feeling the effects of the backlash of the - then intrastate - conflict, President Yanukovych fled to Russia in early 2014. Even this first stage of the entire conflict can be analyzed using Galtung’s triangle. First - before Russian involvement - , the contradiction. The contradiction rests in dispute over Ukraine’s economic reform with the European Union and NATO. Since Ukraine chose Eastern influence over Western influence, this sparked protests. Uk...
The Galtung Triangle - BLM Protests Over the summer, much of white America was shocked at the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that were taking place in America’s major cities, and even America’s smaller cities. A lot of articles and blog posts were written about why the protests were happening in order to give Americans more ignorant of their history and understanding of the anger among the Black community. Analyzing the conflict through the Galtung Triangle is a good way to understand its roots. The primary contradiction behind the BLM protests is the inequality in wealth between white Americans and Black Americans. The racial wealth gap is close to the highest it has ever been. This is a result of America’s history and its systematic oppression of African-Americans. During America’s founding, Africans were brought across the ocean by the slave trade and were then enslaved in Southern cotton plantations and other farms. They were brutally treated there, and slav...
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