Student Name: Joisie Mantilla Santa Cruz
School: United World College of the American West
Subject: Peace and Conflict Studies.
Topic: The conflict between the Cajamarca Community and the Peruvian government. Research Question: Until what degree a positive peace between the Cajamarca community and the Peruvian government is possible?
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Contents:
Abstract………………………………………………………………...03
Introduction…………………………………………………………….04
Background Information………………………………………………06
Current Situation…………………………………………………….…09
Application of Peace and Conflict theory……………………………..13
Prospects of Peace……………………………………………………...22
List of References……………………………………………………...23
References……………………………………………………………..24 …show more content…
The mineral resources of the Inca Empire were the main link to the current mining conflict paradigm in Cajamarca. I was precisely Cajamarca the place were the first mining operation where placed and even before that the conquistadors did what is presented in this essay as “the
Rescue room syndrome” As Lowell Bergman, an investigative reporter who covered the story
“The course of Inca Gold” to The New York Times, explains in an interview:
“the Yanacocha mine is that it 's an area called Cajamarca, high up in the Andes, one of the poorest regions of Peru. But it 's also the place, in 1534, where Pizarro came and met the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, and it 's that story, Atahualpa being taken hostage by
Pizarro, Atahualpa saying `I 'll fill this room '--that he was being held in--`with gold, ' as high as he could reach along the wall. His followers then delivered the gold. He 's
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