YOUR CONTEXT FILE
"It is important to further your understanding of Encountering Conflict with examples apart from the texts your school has chosen. Additional reading will enable you to develop a greater knowledge base, meaning you’ll possess a wider (and more creative) perspective for essay prompts. You should use examples of Conflicts from news, history, literature etc in your writing piece."
Australian media
International media
Events in history
Current
1. Anti-Puten Activist Murdered
2. Peaceful Protests in the Middle East
3. Fighting stereotypes and racism driven by fear through social media
- Violence towards international students
- Sydney siege
- Victorian bush fires
- Australian multicultural society
- Presence of ISIS in Australia
- Treatment of Indigenous Australians and The Stolen Generation
- Asylum seekers
International media
- Libya’s Berber people fight for their identity
- Genetic Engineering including ‘designer babies’
- Islamification
- Sunnis and Shias
- Argentina’s fight for gender identity
- New-terrorism
- The Global Conflicts to Watch in 2015
- 10 Wars to Watch in 2015
Events in history
- War of independence
- Women’s suffrage
- Tiananmen Square massacre
- The Holocaust
- The Khmer Rouge
- Apartheid
- Vietnam War
- Details of the Troubles in Northern Island
- World War Two
- Rosa Parks
- Mahatma Ghandi
- Nelson Mandela
- Martin Luther King
- Adolf Hitler
- Osama Bin Laden
- Barrack Obama
- Benazir Bhutto
- Vlad the Impaler
- Emmeline Pankhurst
Current
1. Anti-Puten Activist Murdered
2. Peaceful Protests in the Middle East
3. Fighting stereotypes and racism driven by fear through social media