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Three roads to peaceRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Peace bingoRead the answer and worked solution →In its broadest sense, development conveys ideas of improvement, progress and what else?Read the answer and worked solution →The concept of development gained importance in which period?Read the answer and worked solution →India pursued development from the 1950s through which planning instrument?Read the answer and worked solution →Which dam is named as a mega project of India's early Five Year Plans?Read the answer and worked solution →Planners hoped growth would reach the poorest gradually. What was this idea called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which new educational institutions were set up to bring the latest science and technology to India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which continent is named as still suffering from huge debts run up for development?Read the answer and worked solution →The Narmada Bachao Andolan opposes which dam?Read the answer and worked solution →Opponents of the Sardar Sarovar Dam claim about how many people have been displaced?Read the answer and worked solution →Why was the 2004 tsunami damage on Asian coasts greater than it might have been?Read the answer and worked solution →Global warming threatens to submerge which low lying countries named in the text?Read the answer and worked solution →Oil was found in the 1950s in the Ogoni region of which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Ken Saro-Wiwa launched which movement in 1990?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year did Nigeria's military rulers execute Ken Saro-Wiwa?Read the answer and worked solution →The roots of environmentalism are traced to a revolt against what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian movement arose to protect Himalayan forests?Read the answer and worked solution →Which UN body brings out the annual Human Development Report?Read the answer and worked solution →Slogans like roti, kapda aur makaan and bijli, sadak, pani express which approach to development?Read the answer and worked solution →Development strategies decided by top leaders and bureaucrats without consulting people are called:Read the answer and worked solution →What is one suggested way to ensure people's participation in development?Read the answer and worked solution →A decentralised approach to development allows creative use of what?Read the answer and worked solution →An alternative model of development stresses conserving resources and using which kind of energy?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the costsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the green groupsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the development factsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the basic needsRead the answer and worked solution →Old model or newRead the answer and worked solution →

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Three roads to peace

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Items
  1. Group
    Balance
    Item
    Alliances
  2. Group
    Balance
    Item
    1800s Europe
  3. Group
    Balance
    Item
    Sovereignty
  4. Group
    Interdepend
    Item
    Trade ties
  5. Group
    Interdepend
    Item
    EU unity
  6. Group
    Supra-nation
    Item
    World order
  7. Group
    Supra-nation
    Item
    Global body
Groups
  1. Item
    Balance
  2. Item
    Interdepend
  3. Item
    Supra-nation
Instructions
Drop each idea onto the approach to peace it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 9, Peace._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1962
    Question
    Year of the Cuban Missile Crisis
  2. Answer
    1865
    Question
    Year US slavery ended
  3. Answer
    1992
    Question
    Year apartheid ended
  4. Answer
    120000
    Question
    Immediate atom bomb deaths, at least
  5. Answer
    95
    Question
    Civilian share of atom bomb casualties, per cent
  6. Answer
    919
    Question
    Child sex ratio in 2011, girls per 1000 boys
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 9, Peace._

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Peace bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    German thinker who glorified war.
    Item
    Nietzsche
  2. Clue
    Missile crisis at the brink of destruction.
    Item
    Cuba 1962
  3. Clue
    Violence built into caste and class.
    Item
    Structural
  4. Clue
    Wars begin in the minds of men.
    Item
    UNESCO
  5. Clue
    Pol Pot's regime, 1.7 million dead.
    Item
    Khmer Rouge
  6. Clue
    Freed Algeria then turned authoritarian.
    Item
    FLN
  7. Clue
    Gandhi's active non-violence.
    Item
    Ahimsa
  8. Clue
    Opposition to war for settling disputes.
    Item
    Pacifism
  9. Clue
    Opposite of a dove.
    Item
    Hawk
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 9, Peace._

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