Conflict
Conflict takes many forms, from disagreements between different political parties to indigenous communities battling government and corporate interests to full-blown warfare. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Conflict” feature reporting that covers adversarial politics, war and peace. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on conflict.
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This lesson provides resources for teachers in Winston-Salem, NC as they create lesson plans connected to the "Dispatches" exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA).
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Lesson Plans
Visualizing the Drones Debate
Students examine details from photojournalist Tomas van Houtryve's drone photography project "Blue Sky Days" to analyze the author's purpose for the project and design their own visual arts projects.
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![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "Ninth-graders at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago present a completed timeline that compares events in the Middle East to highly publicized news stories in the U.S. over the course of the nearly two decades explored in Scott Anderson's "Fractured Lands." Students in World Studies classes at Whitney Young spent eight weeks processing Anderson's story through discussion and close-reading. Image by Anne-Michele Boyle. Chicago, 2016.")
Pulitzer Center Update
Chicago High School Devotes Eight Weeks to "Fractured Lands"
A 9th grade teacher describes how exploring "Fractured Lands" provided her students with a much...
November 7, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: The Rise of the Corporate Army
This week, an investigation into the privatization of government armies in Palestinian territories...
November 1, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Old Gold and Black on Scott Anderson Visit and NewsArts Initiative
Wake Forest University's Old Gold and Black covers a visit from Pulitzer Center Executive Director...
October 31, 2016 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Wes Enzinna
Wes Enzinna investigates the Kurdish revolution in Syria by embedding himself as a teacher in an...
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Lesson Plans
Is There Really Religious Conflict?
This lesson challenges students to take a position related to what is causing or fueling conflicts that could be labeled religious. Students create an argumentative research paper and presentation.
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A research center is rebuilding their seed collection in Lebanon after fleeing Aleppo in Syria...
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-07-16/fractured_lands_timeline_6th_pd_1.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=DaVjFFjI "Ninth-graders at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago present a completed timeline that compares events in the Middle East to highly publicized news stories in the U.S. over the course of the nearly two decades explored in Scott Anderson's "Fractured Lands." Students in World Studies classes at Whitney Young spent eight weeks processing Anderson's story through discussion and close-reading. Image by Anne-Michele Boyle. Chicago, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/10-31-16/wake-forest-scott-anderson.jpg.webp?h=5dc9785f&itok=wPLtm7qA "Wake Forest professor Justin Catanoso, "Fractured Lands" author Scott Anderson and Pulitzer Center executive director Jon Sawyer. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2016.")
