Question

5.4.4 Practice: Intergroup Conflict

Intergroup Conflict
Human history is full of conflict between groups. People are born
into one side or the other, or they take sides.
Some conflicts involve wars between nations or ethnic groups.
Other conflicts are smaller, such as conflicts between different
groups of friends at a school.
Some conflict is healthy. For instance, competition between companies can lead to
innovation. Other conflicts cause unnecessary suffering.
In this activity, you will write about ways to reduce harmful conflict. IN DEPTH​

Answer 1

Dialogue and commercial relations between nations is a proven way to reduce human conflict.

We can see this example in Europe, which has gone through countless wars, including the two World Wars of the twentieth centurie, where over 100 million people, between soldiers and civilians died.

After the end of World War II, Europe formed the European Coal and Steel community, which would eventually evolve into the European Union in 1993.

The European Union is primarily an economic union that has linked the European economis together, not only preventing war, but also making war costlier in case it happened.