Pick a Contemporary Violent Conflict
Give a basic description of the conflict (cite your sources of information).
Explain the conflict by addressing these questions:
How is the current problem impacted by the state formation, the purpose of the state, legitimacy of the state, stability, and/or relationship to civil society?
Has the rise in constructivist security analysis influenced the role of interventions or lack of interventions in your conflict? What reasons are given to justify intervention (or lack thereof)? Who are the principal players and why them?
What are the differences between a realist or contructivist perspective? How has the difference in the perspectives influenced what kind of peacekeeping has taken place? Are they based in the ideas of collective defense or security? Is this ideological stance important to the outcomes in your conflict?






