Conflict & Warfare

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How Do Humanitarian Corridors, Cease-Fires, and Pauses Address Violence in Conflict?

When deadly conflict breaks out, what are different ways to respond to a humanitarian crisis, support life-saving relief, and lessen the loss of civilian lives?

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Timeline

Explore the history and important events behind the long-standing Middle East conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians from 1947 to today.

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NATO: The World’s Largest Alliance

What is NATO? Trace NATO’s history and learn how the organization’s mission has evolved over seventy-five years, from the end of World War II to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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How Is Conflict Changing?

What is conflict? Explore the reasons why tensions, violence, and war break out and what the consequences are for the world in this video.

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The Growing Threat of Cyberattacks

The Stuxnet worm is only the beginning.

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What are Cyberspace and Cybersecurity?

Explore the origins of the internet and the challenges that will define its future.

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Eight “Hot Wars” During the Cold War

The United States and the Soviet Union never directly clashed, but the Cold War was far from bloodless. From Cuba to Korea, explore the proxy wars these superpowers fueled in this historical resource.

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How Does Artificial Intelligence Influence Conflict?

How is the military using AI? Killer robots have long been a fear and fascination of humankind. Explore how weapons that can locate, target, and kill without human involvement shape today’s conflicts and hold the potential to re-shape future conflicts.

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What Is Armed Force?

In this free resource on military action, learn how countries use violence, or armed force, to influence foreign policy.

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What Is Peacekeeping?

In this free resource on the successes and failures of peacekeeping, learn about the UN missions tasked with transitioning countries out of war.

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What Is Arms Control?

In this free resource on arms control agreements, learn how countries try to regulate the world’s most powerful weapons through foreign policy.

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Understanding Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’

More than twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed, challenges remain for Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland long after the conflict ended.

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Understanding Intrastate Conflict

From civil war to terrorist violence, explore the types, causes, and consequences of conflicts within countries that are increasingly threatening world order.

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What Is Interstate Conflict?

Bombs and bullets are not always required for countries to come into conflict. From Russia’s war in Ukraine to a U.S. trade war with China, explore the different ways countries come into tension.

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The Civilian Consequences of Conflict

From World War II to Syria’s civil war, understand the deadly consequences of war and what that means about the changing nature of conflict.

Learning Journeys

A learning journey is a curated collection of resources that explore a topic from a specific perspective.

Learning Journey

Why Did Hamas Attack Israel?

Look back at the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and then take part in the current debate on how to bring an end to the violence.

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Will China Invade Taiwan?

Explore Taiwan’s relationships with the United States and China. Then take part in a national security simulation to help avoid future conflict.

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Conflict: Case Studies

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand recent trends in global conflicts.

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Conflict: Introduction

Explore this collection of learning resources to understand the various types, causes, and consequences of conflict.