A2 GEOGRAPHY

HUMAN: Contemporary Conflicts and Challenges

What Board do we study? AQA www.aqa.org.uk This website contains useful information on the course content and practice papers and mar schemes. Type ‘Geography’ into course search finder, scroll down to A Level Geography (2030), click on this. Scroll down to ‘Specification’, click on ‘Past papers and mark schemes’. Check which Unit you want to look at and click on the relevant past papers to open them. What is Contemporary Conflicts and Challenges all about? This is the study of the social, economic and environmental issues brought about by national and international conflicts in the 21st Century. You will study the nature and causes of local conflicts (such as Housing developments), national conflicts (such as separatism) and international conflicts (such as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East). You will need a good awareness of modern day conflicts, developed through direct or indirect media sources. This unit also looks at the national and international challenges of poverty, security and racism. Practicalities – What do I need? What should I read? Paper and a file with dividers (getting organised now, will avoid wasting time during revision) Lots of common sense Pens, ruler and pencils Books: Smith J. & Knill R. AQA AS Geography, Nelson Thornes Barker R. Redfern D. Skinner M. AQA AS Geography, Phillip Allen Parsons R. AS-Level Geography Exam board AQA Complete revision and practice, CGP Barker R. Redfern D. Skinner M. AQA AS Geography Student Unit Guide, unit 1: Physical and Human Geography, Phillip Allen Websites: http://coolgeography.co.uk/ http://www.bippi.org/bippi/menu_left/conflicts.htm www.worldmapper.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/iraq/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/world/newsid_3792000/3792713.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13283212 http://www.crisisgroup.org/ http://internationalconflicts.blogspot.co.uk/ http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-global-poverty See below for what you need to know

What do I need to know? RAG rate the following throughout, or at the end of the Unit.

Contemporary Conflicts and Challenges R A G

Unit content

Generic causes of conflicts

Generic patterns of conflict

Expressions of conflict

How conflicts can be resolved

Reasons for local conflicts (local scale)

Attitudes of local people for a local conflict

How is a local conflict resolved

Reasons for international conflicts (international scale, last 30years)

The social, environmental and economic issues for international conflicts

Reasons for the development of multicultural societies

The distribution of multicultural societies (in the UK)

Issues associated with multicultural societies

Definition of separatism with examples

Reasons for separatism

Consequences of separatism (+ and - )

The global distribution of poverty

The cuases of poverty

Indicators of poverty

How poverty can be tackled

The millennium development goals and the effectiveness of these

‘No development without security and no security without development’ issue

Unit skills

ICT skills

Map skills (do you know your way around a world map?)

High quality literacy skills (can you write with sophisticated fluency?)

Interpreting data and trends (graphs, tables, percentages)

High quality evaluation skills (balanced arguments and your own opinions)

Astute awareness of contemporary issues (do you understand current world issues?)

Ability to think synoptically (using content from a range of topics and units)