Term paper 1. Subject: Conflict Analysis. Submitted by: Yusra Rashid. Question: write a critique of Galtung’s concept of structural violence. Conflict can be defined as a relationship between two or more parties which can be both individuals and groups who have or think that they have incompatible goals. Conflicts are a fact of life, inevitable and often creative. Conflict happen when people have goals which clash. Disagreement and conflicts are usually resolved without violence, and often lead
Democratic peace theory states that democracies hardly fight each other because they share similar standards of “live-and-let-live” and domestic institutions that limit the option of war. The causal logics that reinforce democratic peace theory are, normative logic and institutional logic. Normative logic argues that an “effect of democracy is to socialize political elites to act on the basis of democratic norms whenever possible.” These standards order nonviolent conflict resolution and negotiation
three conditions which led to the failure of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping attempts to resolve conflict in Angola. After Angola became independent from the Portuguese in 1975, the Angolan Civil War that followed lasted from 1975 to 2002, killing an estimated 800,000 people and displaced nearly 4 million from their homes (Political Economy Research Institute, no date). To help resolve the conflict, the United Nations (UN) intervened and carried out peacekeeping operations in Angola. Margaret Carey
Clearly identifying the background of conflict context a. Use administrative or political map of the area b. Briefly describe the area c. Outline conflict history of the area 2. Distinctly differentiating conflict parties and issues a. Differentiate who the main conflict parties are b. Identify the conflict issues c. Find out the relationships between the conflict parties d. Pinpoint perceptions of the causes and nature of the conflict among the conflict parties e. Know more about the current
the importance to Venezuela of respect for the international rule of law to the maintenance of international peace and security. Throughout human history, war and conflict have caused untold suffering that have hindered social development and economic progress. The prevention of conflicts has therefore always been a shared objective of the international community. Ensuring and maintaining peace as a principle and fundamental right are critical to implement in order to establish better condition to all
breeding ground for militants and ‚impoverished ethnic groups‛ for some years now. This is because the discovery of oil and its exploitation has ushered in a miserable, undisciplined, decrepit, and corrupt form of ‘petro-capitalism’ which produces conflict accelerating factors. Devastated by the ecological costs of oil spillage and the highest gas flaring rates in the world, the Niger Delta has become a centre of violence. In an attempt to solve the Niger Delta crisis, the Federal Government recently
Militarization is the process where a group of people or a society organizes itself for military conflict and violence by amassing weapons and regrouping. The government may seek support and equip foreign groups by militarizing it if its army is unable to repel invasion on its own without support. A good example is when Guinean army was unable to repel invasion by the Macenta and Guekedou combatants who were initially refugees in Guinea between the year 2000 and 2001 and the Guinean government sought
that the Israel-Palestine conflict, one of the most intractable conflicts of the twentieth century, was on the verge of resolution. However, in this twenty second year since Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) concluded the Oslo I Accords (the Accords), or the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government for Palestine (DoP), the conflict has arguably deteriorated to a point far worse than during any other period. The Accords were not a peace treaty or a final settlement
Canada recognizes the importance of endorsing the natural rights of refugees to be united with their family and refers the attention of Members States to the Human Rights Declaration as a basis for peace-building of war torn regions and further understands that in the moral and legal aspects, all Member States have to work with appropriate organizations to ensure the protection and well-being of the refugees. Furthermore, the Non-profit Canadian Council for Refugees has been committed to the rights
restoration of sustainable peace after violent conflict remains one of the major challenges worth taking up in post-conflict peacebuilding. The analyses of multiple experiments at peacebuilding reveal frequent failures or mixed results at best (Dobbins et al. 2007; Paris, 2004; Duffield, 2007; Ismail, 2008). That is why Krause and Jutersonke (2005:448) concludes that “not only do about half of all peace support operations (including both peacekeeping and more expansive peace building operations) fail