- Political Scientist: Examine the historical roots of your group’s selected conflict. Also identify what are the two sides fighting over in terms of resources, power, glory, territory, and the like. How does the conflict affect current international relations between countries?
- Economist: Examine the economic factors of your group’s selected conflict. These may include access to markets and scarce resources, greed, imperialism, concerns about the impact of economic interdependence and population growth. Also consider whether economics is used as a means of warfare, such as sanctions, blockades, etc.
- Sociologist: Examine the meaning that war has in societies involved in your group’s selected conflict. How do cultural, ethnic, religious, or nationalistic elements factor into the conflict? How is the conflict viewed by members involved in the conflict? Also consider the relationship between state structure and war making–how much of the war is conducted by the government, and how much is conducted by civilians.
- Environmentalist: Examine the environmental impacts of your group’s selected conflict. What natural resources have been destroyed, damaged, and polluted? How have ecosystems been altered? What has been the impact on wildlife and biodiversity? Think also of the environmental costs of building, training, sustaining, and supplying military forces in terms of energy and fossil fuels.