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The human rights challenges of global raw materials policy are currently omnipresent in the media landscape.

Reports on the humanitarian and global political consequences of environmental changes - think of current debates on "climate refugees" or possible "water wars" -, the consequences of the hunger for raw materials in the Global North and their effects on conflict dynamics in the Global South are increasingly the focus of public attention.

How can such a complex topic be taught in schools? This anthology aims to answer this question by providing teachers with concrete and up-to-date teaching material for the classroom.

The volume emerged from the seminar "Natural Resources, Human Rights and Conflicts - Raw Material Challenges in a Globalized World", which took place as a training course for teachers from 26-27 October 2018 at the Fridtjof Nansen Academy for Political Education in Ingelheim.

The overview texts and lesson plans contained here were designed for pupils at upper secondary level.

The first three contributions provide an introduction to various facets of the topic "Natural resources and human rights". These concern the connection between resource wealth and wars in resource-producing countries, the effects of climate change on conflict dynamics and Europe's shared responsibility for resource-related underdevelopment and conflicts in the South.

The overview texts are followed by a didactic classification of the seven lesson plans, which then use specific case studies to make suggestions for working on the topic in school lessons.

These cover a broad geographical and geological spectrum: from gold and nickel in Latin America to China's rare earths and oil, water and coltan in sub-Saharan Africa. The drafts are each embedded in lesson series of varying scope, which should enable teachers to prepare the topic in a needs-oriented way.

Click here to go directly to the publication.

The human rights challenges of global raw materials policy are currently omnipresent in the media landscape.

Reports on the humanitarian and global political consequences of environmental changes - think of current debates on "climate refugees" or possible "water wars" -, the consequences of the hunger for raw materials in the Global North and their effects on conflict dynamics in the Global South are increasingly the focus of public attention.

How can such a complex topic be taught in schools? This anthology aims to answer this question by providing teachers with concrete and up-to-date teaching material for the classroom.

The volume emerged from the seminar "Natural Resources, Human Rights and Conflicts - Raw Material Challenges in a Globalized World", which took place as a training course for teachers from 26-27 October 2018 at the Fridtjof Nansen Academy for Political Education in Ingelheim.

The overview texts and lesson plans contained here were designed for pupils at upper secondary level.

The first three contributions provide an introduction to various facets of the topic "Natural resources and human rights". These concern the connection between resource wealth and wars in resource-producing countries, the effects of climate change on conflict dynamics and Europe's shared responsibility for resource-related underdevelopment and conflicts in the South.

The overview texts are followed by a didactic classification of the seven lesson plans, which then use specific case studies to make suggestions for working on the topic in school lessons.

These cover a broad geographical and geological spectrum: from gold and nickel in Latin America to China's rare earths and oil, water and coltan in sub-Saharan Africa. The drafts are each embedded in lesson series of varying scope, which should enable teachers to prepare the topic in a needs-oriented way.