QUESTIONS 200L
QUESTIONS 200L
Which of the following is/are very relevant when planning or evaluating a non-violent
intervention in making peace, ________
A. Time of intervention
B. Levels of society the intervention addresses
C. Geographical scope of the intervention area
D. All of the above
ANSWER: D
What is the agreement of most authors dealing with level of society in relationship to
conflict intervention?
A. That it is of paramount importance for interveners to reach all three levels.
B. That it is of no importance for interveners to reach all three levels.
C. That interveners can reach only two levels of society to resolve conflict.
D. That interveners can never reach all three levels of society to resolve conflict.
ANSWER: A
What can be responsible for the failure of an agreement made between top leaders and
peace mediators.
A. Success in carrying the masses along in mediation process.
B. Lack of support of the masses.
C. Disagreement between the mediators and the top leaders
D. None of the above
ANSWER: B
Which of the following statements is correct?
A. Intervention involves being part of the conflict.
B. All interventions involve going to the place where the conflict is.
C. Not all interventions involve going to the place where the conflict is.
D. All of the above.
ANSWER: C
Peace-making -is concerned with __________
A. The search for a negotiated resolution of the perceived conflicts of interests between
the parties
B. Hindering groups or individuals in dialogue about possible resolution of the conflict
C. Agreement of mediators on possible resolution to conflicts without bringing the
individual involved together
D. Bringing individual involved together in physical combat in order to resolve conflict
ANSWER: A
What is that strategy that directly tries to reverse those destructive processes that
accompany violence
A. Dialogue
B. Mediation
C. Peace Building
D. Conflict Making
ANSWER: C
Peace is not just the absence of war but involves ......
A. Everyone maximizing their potential to lead fulfilling lives free from threats to their
dignity.
B. Everyone minimizing their potential to lead fulfilling lives free from threats to their
dignity.
C. Everyone relegating potential to ground zero
D. Threatening of people's dignity.
ANSWER: A
Which of the following is not a strategy used in conflict resolution?
A. Peace making
B. Peace building
C. Dialogue
D. None of the above
ANSWER: D
Which of the following is not a condition for peace.
A. A civic culture
B. A commitment to the peaceful resolution of disputes
C. A strong institutions
D. None of the above
ANSWER: D
The following are condition for peace in a community except ______?
A. Deferment of timely justice
B. Strong institutions
C. An ethical code
D. Mutual legitimization
ANSWER: A
The primary root source of conflict is traced to ......
A. Snatching each other's wife
B. Dispute over landed property.
C. Clash of interests in the relationship between parties, groups or states.
D. Stepping on someone's right
ANSWER: C
The type of conflict in which abundance of weaponry and trained soldiers and untrained
volunteers available in a country is known as _______?
A. Conflict resulting from Foreign Intervention in a society
B. Conflict arising from the militarisation of the Society.
C. Conflict of Governance.
D. Boundary Confict.
ANSWER: B
State dictatorships trying to shore up ethnic autocracies are under attack by increasingly
militant opposition groups, this describe which type of confict?
A. Boundary Conflicts.
B. Conflict of Economic Development.
C. Conflict resulting from Foreign Intervention
D. Conflict of Governance.
ANSWER: D
The conflict which includes the crisis of production and distribution of resources and the
competition arising there-from is an example of which type of conflict?
A. Boundary Conflicts.
B. Conflict of Economic Development.
C. Conflict resulting from Foreign Intervention
D. Conflict of Governance.
ANSWER: B
Which of the following has the capacity of causing conflict
A. Inter-state borders
B. Ethnicity
C. Poor economic performance
D. All of the above.
ANSWER: D
Which of the following factors can cause the insurgent of dissidents in a state being
harboured in neighbouring countries and guerrillas armed and trained there
A. When the existing state structures do not satisfy variously the aspirations for cultural
identity.
B. When the economic and democracy aspiration of people are not satisfied.
C. When the state structures do not satisfy self-determination of different nationalities co-
existing with the contemporary states
D. All of the above.
ANSWER: D
Which of the following gives Stephen McCarthy’s definition of a nation?
A. A complex web of common cultural, social and economic interests among people.
B. A combination of people with the same religion and language.
C. A combination of people with different religion and language.
D. None of the above
ANSWER: A
The Stephen McCarthy's definition of a nation was an European concept of a nation, what
does his definition implies?
A. It implies that what people share in common is of no significant to their regional, tribal
or other differences.
B. It implies that what people share in common is greater than their regional, tribal or
other differences.
C. It implies that everybody has equal right in a nation.
D. All of the above.
ANSWER: B
The Idi Amins coup in Uganda in 1971, was caused by __________
A. Inter-ethnic rivalry among leading army officers, as well as by ethnic resentments
against the civil head of state.
B. Inter-State border rivalry among leading army officers, as well as border resentments
against the civil head of state.
C. Election crisis among various political groups in the country
D. High food scarcity crisis in the country.
ANSWER: A
The type of conflict that exist among political leadership is known as ________?
A. Elite conflict.
B. Factional conflict.
C. Communal and mass conflict.
D. Inter-state border confict.
ANSWER: A
Which of the following dual systems are very similar in 'ADR' pocess?
A. Negotiation and Mediation
B. Mediation and Conciliation
C. Conciliation and Arbitration
D. Mediation and Arbitration
ANSWER B.
Objectives of 'ADR' include the following EXCEPT?
A. Economic restructuring
B. Management of tensions and conflicts in communities.
C. To improve the administration of justice.
D. None of the above.
ANSWER D.
____________ is often used to describe a wide variety of dispute resolution mechanisms
that are short of, or alternative to, full-scale court processes.?
A. Alternative Dispute Reformation
B. Alternative Defformation Resolution
C. Alternative Dispute Resolution
D. Alternation Dispute Resolution
ANSWER C.
Which of the following system create a structure to encourage and facilitate direct
negotiation between parties to a dispute, without the intervention of a third party.
A. Negotiation system
B. Mediation system
C. Conciliation system
D. Arbitration system.
ANSWER A.
The type of Alternative Dispute Resolution system that interject a third party between the
disputants are _______?
A. Negotiation and Mediation
B. Mediation and Conciliation
C. Conciliation and Arbitration
D. Mediation and Arbitration
ANSWER B.
Which of the following is not a category of 'ADR'
A. Negotiation system.
B. Mediation System.
C. Arbitration systems.
D. None of the above.
ANSWER D.
Which of the following Alternative Dispute Resoluton systems do not give authority to
the third party to decide or rule on a settlement.
A. Negotiation and Mediation
B. Mediation and Conciliation
C. Conciliation and Arbitration
D. Mediation and Arbitration
ANSWER B.
Which of the following Alternative Dispute Resoluton systems gives authority to the
third party to decide or rule on a settlement.
A. Negotiation system.
B. Mediation System.
C. Arbitration systems.
D. None of the above.
ANSWER C.
Which of the following is/are not characteristics of ADR systems?
A. More direct participation by the disputants in the process and in designing settlements
B. More direct dialogue and opportunity for reconciliation between disputants
C. Potentially higher levels of confidentiality
D. None of the above
ANSWER D.
Which of the following is/are a binding form of Alternative Dispute Resolution system?
A. Negotiation
B. Mediation
C. Conciliation
D. None of the above.
ANSWER D.
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