PS5: Conflict and Intervention
This prescribed topic focuses on two case studies which show the impact of both intervention and non-intervention in two very different conflicts.
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This topic focuses on conflict and intervention in two very different 20th Century case studies.
- The first focuses on the genocide in Rwanda, starting with the outbreak of conflict in 1990 and ending with the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 1990.
- The second case study focuses on the ethnic conflict in Kosovo between 1998 and 2002.
Three key themes are identified for each case study:
- the causes of each conflict
- the course of the conflict and international intervention,
- the impact of the conflict and of the international intervention.
As with the other Paper 1 topics, the themes for each case study are the same to allow teachers to draw comparisons between the case studies. However, exams will only ever be set on one of the case studies and will never be of a comparative nature.
5. PS5 Conflict and Intervention: Extra resources
On this page we have included some extra websites, reading, fiction and films that are useful for pursuing this topic further.