Cover of the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6 - War and peace for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Read the article and answer the questions in your own words.

Answer

  1. It’s a football competition between the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London and Bradford University’s Department of Peace Studies. It’s named after Tolstoy’s novel, War and Peace.
  2. growth of nation states and legal systems, increasingly globalised trade, increased respect for women, globalised mass media and greater freedom of movement, increased importance of reason
  3. It’s become more mainstream and accepted. (It was a fringe area but since the 1970s and 1980s it’s spread throughout the world.) People want to find new ways of solving conflicts. (the increasing desire to solve conflict by means other than war)
  4. politics and economics (terrorism, poverty, social inequality, hunger), psychology (group dynamics and aggression), geography (climate change, resource shortages, etc.)
  5. surrender of weapons and reintegration of soldiers, and developing social and political institutions, encourage community relations and economic development