Natural Resource Conflicts And Conflict

Throughout history, the Native people of North America and the Europeans have continually had arguments and disputes over land. To this day there are still issues trying to be resolved. Twenty years ago, the beginning of one of the most violent and intense land disputes in present day Canada occurred. This event is now referred to as the Oka Crisis, named after the town Oka in Quebec. This crisis caused a confrontation involving the Quebec provincial police, the Canadian armed forces and the Mohawk people.1 The stand that the Mohawk people took in the town of Oka became a major revelation for the aboriginal people spreading awareness of aboriginal rights across Canada.

Conflict Theory originated from the great German theologian, Karl Marx. Many of the social beliefs that support and strengthen this theory have been rooted in the ideas of Karl Marx himself. He believed that it’s not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence which determines their stream of consciousness. With this being the motto of this theory it’s easy to see that Marx believed that the social infrastructure of each man and woman determines their very place in the society in which they live, not the other way around. This theory believes that the determinate for each individual social

Conflict theory holds that life involves discord. Conflict theorist see society not as basically cooperative but as divided, with individuals and groups in conflict with each other. They try to identify the competing forces within

Throughout history there have been a lot of conflicts between many different groups of people. A conflict is a disagreement between a group of people. There are a lot of causes that could lead up to a conflict between groups of people. The Reign of Terror and the Holocaust affects two different groups by killing many people.

Conflict theory sees societies comprised of groups with conflicting values and interests. (Vold et al. 1998)

The social approach of conflict is described by Witt (2014) as focusing on power and the allocation of valued resources in society. Examples of resources include material, social, and cultural resources. Those that have resources are held as privileged while others are seen as inferior. The view of society in the conflict perspective is associated with tension and struggle between groups. (Witt 2014:17)

The biggest form of this conflict is war. War is the second reason for Sameness and why it came to be. “Overwhelmed by pain, he lay there in fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals doe, and learned what warfare meant” (120). War and it's memories of pain are why Sameness was made and even The Giver who is skilled in reliving the memories is overwhelmed by it sometimes. Murder is another facet and one that still actively occurs in the community. It is a cousin of war that coexists with it creating tragedies and invoking pain. “When a person is ‘released’ they are killed” (Sciftw). Many are killed through release all the time without remorse by the community. Finally and simply, there is just being rude. Rudeness the smallest but still significant form of conflict. “Asher looked warily at him. ‘ I apologize for not paying you the respect you deserve,’ he mumbled” (134). It is a facet of their society that is frowned upon and can lead to death for repeat offenders. The conflict between man brought forth their society of

In every part of life there have been various disputes involving religion, culture, gender, class, and ethnicity that has created an endless conflict of war. And why is this? It all has to deal with human variability. It is this, in which causes such arguments take effect and create barriers between others. Communication is the only resolution to conflicts; yet many argue that ignorance is the occurrence of conflict evolving many factors of tradition, power, and authority that can never be resolved. Conflict is an inevitable part of our life that is developed through the differences in race and appearance, thoughts and opinions, as well as a person’s overall identity.

“Strife is the father of all things… Being at variance it agrees with itself: there is a back-stretched connection, as in the bow and the lyre” (Heraclitus,ca. 500 B.C.). Unit one of Four Sociological Traditions by Randall Collins talked about conflict. The term conflict theory was initially created by Karl Marx, but was later developed by other theorist such as Max Weber. Unit one illustrates that the main disagreement is not about conflict existing in society, but that there is an issue when conflict is not openly taking place. When this happens it is a “process of domination” (p.47). The consequence of domination is conflict, which is when people try to proceed in their own interests over others.

In the conflict mentioned above about the two men fighting over the land, both guys wanted to have the land and neither of them was willing to

Conflict theory is in essence an intricate system with imbalance, which results in conflict that can leave to gregarious change. It explicates gregarious life through understanding convivial processes as the result of the constant struggle between groups. In society there are inhibited resources, such as potency, wealth, edification, and prestige, as a result people vie for those resources for survival and to amend their position in society. As verbalized by McQueeney (2011) according to conflict theory, society is: “A struggle for ascendance among competing convivial groups (classes, genders, races, religions, etc.). When conflict theorists visually examine society, they optically discern the convivial ascendance of subordinate groups through

Unlike Functional Analysis and Symbolic Interaction, which focus on the positive aspects of the world, Conflict Theory focuses on the undesirable, conflicted, and constantly changing nature of a society. It is the belief that in each society there is some small group that controls the means of production and exploits those who are weak and not in control. It, in theory, is a struggle for power. It “challenges the status quo; encourages social change, even social revolution, and believe rich and powerful people force social order on the poor and the weak”

The issue of land ownership is a confusing one since it leads to the suffering of one group of people while the other enjoys. For instance, the Indians have the right to the original land but have been left without the resource. Land ownership seems to arise as the new world provides the notion that property and happiness are

Tractors, land corporations, and bankers reflect the alienation and corruptions that result when landownership and farming become a business. Migrants believe that the land belongs to those who work it and draw sustenance from it. This attitude is contrasted with that of landowners who allow their lands to lie dormant while others are hungry, and with absentee ownership that exists only to make a profit.

The need for conflict resolution in the land use conflict between concessions companies and community members of the Nimba County in Liberia cannot be over emphasized since the sustainability of most economies is predicated on the availability of natural resource of that country. Concessions companies are established to accomplish their set objectives which includes profit making and for these objectives to be attained stability and peaceful atmosphere must play a significant role. It is important to know that due to the present competition amongst investors around the globe there is the need for these concession companies to adapt the culture of consulting community stakeholders when it comes to dealings with their lands. The research will target the following Stakeholders such as youth, women groups, elders, chiefs, civil society organizations and local government officials in the Nimba Country region.