Resource, conflicts and their impact in Wellbeing

A (a)   is a disagreement caused by the perceived or actual opposition of needs, values and interests between people.

(a)   are parts of the natural environment that people value and use to meet their needs.

Recall how natural resources can impact communities' wellbeing. (Select all that apply)

• Improve people's mood

• Allow the development of industries

• Be a source of conflicts

• Cause the extinction of a race

• Bring in diseases

Conflict-affected countries reached the Millennium Development Goals set by the UN, that aimed to reduce global poverty and improve wellbeing.

• True

• False

Recall which factor can add complexity to resource conflicts.

• Ethnicity

• Corruption

• Ideology

• Discrimination

• All the answers

Violent conflicts affect communities' wellbeing and countries' development by impacting negatively on human capital and destroying public and private assets.

• True

• False

Refugees don't have to but they chose to leave their country for more economically developed nations, so they can live off welfare benefits.

• True

• False

What the failure of many resource-rich countries to benefit from their resource wealth is called?

• The resource blessing

• The resource curse

• The resource waste

• The resource conflict

What does IDP stands for?

• Informative Detectable Price

• Intuitively Deformed Place

• Internally Displaced Persons

• Important Delayed Price

Which of these IS NOT a consequence of the ongoing conflict for minerals in the DRC?

• Stable Human resources

• Less and less humanitarian aid

  on field

• Misuse of land in protected

  natural park

• Millions of IDPs

• Violence against women