Conflict and Resolution Vocabulary

A situation in which people do not trust each other, or feel unfriendly towards each other, and that may cause them to attack each other.

To stop happening or existing.

A war between groups of people in the same country.

A sudden change of government that is illegal and often violent.

Action taken to improve or help a situation.

A fixed idea or image which is often not true in reality and may cause hurt and offense.

A person who tries to get secret information about another country, organization or person.

A military operation in which an army tries to capture a town by surrounding it and stopping the supply of food, etc. to the people inside.

• the way that somebody behaves towards other people

• a task that you do regularly

-showing a lack of thought, understanding, or judgment

• to enter a country, town, etc. using military force in order to take control of it

United Nations (an association of many countries that aims to help economic and social conditions improve and to solve political problems in the world in a peaceful way)

• deserving to be noticed or to receive attention; important

• sudden, very great and often surprising

• if one thing is associated with another, the two things are connected because they happen together or one thing causes the other

• very different from each other and of various kinds

• angry, and behaving in a threatening way; ready to attack

• for which there is a fair and acceptable reason

• angry and aggressive in a way that is frightening

• difficult in an interesting way that tests your ability

• a figure of a person or an animal in stone, metal, etc., usually the same size as in real life or larger

• freedom to live as you choose without too many limits from government or authority

• the first design of something from which other forms are copied or developed

• a high pointed area near the top of a mountain

• to turn something into a shape or position that is not normal or natural;

to attack a place by firing large guns at it or dropping bombs on it continuously

• violent physical action used to achieve something

a person who rejects the way that most people live in Western society, often having long hair, wearing brightly coloured clothes and taking illegal drugs. The hippie movement was most popular in the 1960s.