Lesson 1 Conflict in the Streets

Unit Three - Societies in Conflict

LESSON ONE (ELAU3L1) – CONFLICT IN THE STREETS (Five Days)

 INTRODUCTION

Violence and conflict can manifest in many ways. Political violence is often related to the large-scale social structure and is embedded in society in the form of age-old discrimination and deprivation when privilege and opportunities are distributed unequally. Political violence is often related to movements of social protest against well established powers, such is the case in the essay, "Death in the Square".

Read the following two selections to learn how the eruption of conflict had two very different origins.
Complete ONE of the essay assignments that follows:

Resources

“Billy and Us”

“Death in the Square"