Resource, conflicts and their impact in Wellbeing

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

__________ 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