Across
- 2. Relating to the concern for human welfare and the relief of suffering, often applied to aid efforts and legal frameworks designed to protect civilians in conflict zones.
- 7. Payments or compensations made by a country responsible for causing war or other harm to the nations or peoples it damaged, as a form of partial acknowledgment of that harm.
- 10. The formal incorporation of one territory into another state, typically without the consent of the population living there.
- 12. A deep psychological wound resulting from an experience of extreme threat, helplessness, or loss that continues to affect a person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior long after the original event.
- 14. The deliberate and systematic killing of a large group of people because of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality, recognized under international law as among the gravest of human crimes.
- 17. A political and cultural ideology centered on the belief that one's own ethnic, linguistic, or territorial group has a special claim to sovereignty, belonging, and collective purpose.
- 18. The full legal and political authority of a state over its own territory and people, free from external interference.
- 19. An organized, often prolonged, armed resistance movement operating against a constituted authority, usually through guerrilla tactics rather than conventional military engagement.
Down
- 1. A policy or practice in which a powerful nation extends its control over weaker territories through military, economic, or political means, often at significant human cost.
- 3. A temporary halt in active hostilities, typically negotiated to allow for humanitarian action or peace talks, without resolving the deeper political issues driving the conflict.
- 4. A soldier who fights for money rather than for loyalty to a nation or cause, historically viewed with suspicion precisely because their allegiance can always be purchased.
- 5. A psychological and rhetorical process through which a group of people is stripped of their perceived humanity, making it easier for others to commit or condone violence against them.
- 6. A mode of reasoning that considers what would have happened under different circumstances, used in history and ethics to evaluate choices by imagining the alternatives.
- 8. The compulsory enrollment of people into a nation's military forces, typically used when volunteer enlistment is insufficient to meet the demands of a conflict.
- 9. The dominance of one group, state, or cultural force over others, exercised not always through direct force but through the shaping of norms, institutions, and expectations.
- 10. A formal agreement between warring parties to suspend active fighting, distinct from a peace settlement, as it addresses the symptoms of conflict rather than the causes.
- 11. An act of extreme brutality committed against people who have no power to defend themselves, often in the context of organized violence on a large scale.
- 13. The strategy of preventing an adversary from taking a harmful action by demonstrating that the consequences of that action would be far too severe to be worth the risk.
- 15. The systematic use of media, language, and imagery by a government or institution to shape public beliefs and behaviors, especially in support of political or military objectives.
- 16. The scientific study of changes in gene activity that do not alter the DNA sequence but can be influenced by environmental conditions and may be passed on to future generations.