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From the Ted Talk by Severine Autesserre: To solve mass violence, look to locals

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The dominant culture also constructs intervention at the national and international lleevs as the only natural and legitimate task for United Nations staffers and diplomats. And it ealetevs the organization of general elections, which is now a sort of cure-all, as the most crucial satte rctotrnoisuecn mechanism over more effevtice state-building approaches. And that happens not only in Congo but also in many other conflict zoens.

But let's dig deeper, into the other main seorucs of violence. In Congo, continuing vconeile is motivated not only by the national and international causes but also by longstanding bottom-up agendas whose main instigators are vlliegars, traditional chiefs, community cihfes or ethnic leaders. Many conflicts revolve around piaolticl, social and economic stakes that are distinctively local. For instance, there is a lot of competition at the village or district level over who can be ciehf of village or chief of territory according to traditional law, and who can control the distribution of land and the exploitation of local mining sites. This competition often results in localized fighting, for instance in one village or territory, and quite frequently, it eltscaaes into generalized fighting, so across a whole province, and even at tiems into neighboring countries.

Open Cloze


The dominant culture also constructs intervention at the national and international ______ as the only natural and legitimate task for United Nations staffers and diplomats. And it ________ the organization of general elections, which is now a sort of cure-all, as the most crucial _____ ______________ mechanism over more _________ state-building approaches. And that happens not only in Congo but also in many other conflict _____.

But let's dig deeper, into the other main _______ of violence. In Congo, continuing ________ is motivated not only by the national and international causes but also by longstanding bottom-up agendas whose main instigators are _________, traditional chiefs, community ______ or ethnic leaders. Many conflicts revolve around _________, social and economic stakes that are distinctively local. For instance, there is a lot of competition at the village or district level over who can be _____ of village or chief of territory according to traditional law, and who can control the distribution of land and the exploitation of local mining sites. This competition often results in localized fighting, for instance in one village or territory, and quite frequently, it _________ into generalized fighting, so across a whole province, and even at _____ into neighboring countries.

Solution


  1. elevates
  2. sources
  3. zones
  4. times
  5. chief
  6. effective
  7. political
  8. escalates
  9. chiefs
  10. villagers
  11. reconstruction
  12. violence
  13. state
  14. levels

Original Text


The dominant culture also constructs intervention at the national and international levels as the only natural and legitimate task for United Nations staffers and diplomats. And it elevates the organization of general elections, which is now a sort of cure-all, as the most crucial state reconstruction mechanism over more effective state-building approaches. And that happens not only in Congo but also in many other conflict zones.

But let's dig deeper, into the other main sources of violence. In Congo, continuing violence is motivated not only by the national and international causes but also by longstanding bottom-up agendas whose main instigators are villagers, traditional chiefs, community chiefs or ethnic leaders. Many conflicts revolve around political, social and economic stakes that are distinctively local. For instance, there is a lot of competition at the village or district level over who can be chief of village or chief of territory according to traditional law, and who can control the distribution of land and the exploitation of local mining sites. This competition often results in localized fighting, for instance in one village or territory, and quite frequently, it escalates into generalized fighting, so across a whole province, and even at times into neighboring countries.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
local conflicts 6
united nations 5
international peacebuilders 4
international peace 3
international peacebuilding 3
ongoing humanitarian 2
peace efforts 2
international intervention 2
eastern provinces 2
dominant peacebuilding 2
peacebuilding culture 2
common culture 2
culture shapes 2
international tensions 2
local power 2
local agendas 2
local actors 2
local peacebuilding 2
peacebuilding programs 2
grassroots conflict 2
international actors 2
conflict resolution 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
international peace efforts 2
dominant peacebuilding culture 2
local peacebuilding programs 2

Important Words


  1. agendas
  2. approaches
  3. chief
  4. chiefs
  5. community
  6. competition
  7. conflict
  8. conflicts
  9. congo
  10. constructs
  11. continuing
  12. control
  13. countries
  14. crucial
  15. culture
  16. deeper
  17. dig
  18. diplomats
  19. distinctively
  20. distribution
  21. district
  22. dominant
  23. economic
  24. effective
  25. elections
  26. elevates
  27. escalates
  28. ethnic
  29. exploitation
  30. fighting
  31. frequently
  32. general
  33. generalized
  34. instance
  35. instigators
  36. international
  37. intervention
  38. land
  39. law
  40. leaders
  41. legitimate
  42. level
  43. levels
  44. local
  45. localized
  46. longstanding
  47. lot
  48. main
  49. mechanism
  50. mining
  51. motivated
  52. national
  53. nations
  54. natural
  55. neighboring
  56. organization
  57. political
  58. province
  59. reconstruction
  60. results
  61. revolve
  62. sites
  63. social
  64. sort
  65. sources
  66. staffers
  67. stakes
  68. state
  69. task
  70. territory
  71. times
  72. traditional
  73. united
  74. village
  75. villagers
  76. violence
  77. zones