Causes of Conflict in Darfur, Sudan

Part of a unit on the geography of conflict, this lesson looks at the complex causes of war in Sudan.

Lesson includes-

• A cartoon analysis starter
• A description of the location of Darfur task
• Two video links looking at the causes of the conflict
• A differentiated card sort (high and low ability) with venn digram. This gets students thinking about the interconnected causes of conflict- in this instance, ethnicity, climate change and oil.
• 7 questions and 2 challenge questions based upon the card sort getting students to explain the causes if the war at at both a regional, national and global scale.
• A true or false activity to be played in pairs.
• A short homework task.

All resources included within the PPT.