1. Introduction Globally, thousands of children are involve in various armed groups. These children are usually abducted at a youthful age in a savagely violent way and forced to perpetrate evil atrocities. They are undoubtedly victims of these conflicts (Child Soldiers: the role of children in armed conflict, Cohn and Goodwin-Gill, 1994) However With the increasing number and gravity of armed conflicts in the world, humanitarian imperative, human rights activist, and the international community
Additional Protocols. Still, many of the conditions of the Protocols still continue to be vague and disputed. The essay would place stress on however the evolution of warfare makes it tough for application of the international humanitarian law in specific conflict things like managing prisoners of war conjointly linking it to distinction between international and non-international armed conflict. Introduction International humanitarian law is understood
be able to be utilized in an incredibly versatile manner. Words have started wars, ended lasting conflicts, and connected the ends of the earth together. It is the versatility of words that mold sentences into emotions, and writers into champions of the human psyche. Henry Lloyd Mencken, famed critic and journalist, wrote numerous essays and opinion pieces covering a variety of topics. One of his essays, “The Libido for the Ugly”, confronts the industrial machine encompassing America. In this work
particularly, conflicts are embedded in multiple layers of interrelationships. And therefore, linear and silo solutions cannot yield the desired results. This awareness has helped in advancing my understanding of the notion of structural violence as espoused by Galtung. The notion of structural violence assumes that armed violence
ideologies and policies. It is a process that promotes the formation of regions. In today’s context, the likelihood of inter-state conflicts in Southeast Asia is greatly reduced, but not totally removed, as it can be seen that there is still some issues on the demarcation of maritime borders with regards to the South China Sea. In Southeast Asia, the internal conflicts are becoming the greatest obstacle in terms of integration and development as it is affecting the regional stability within the
I agree with the statement that Southeast Asia’s route to independence is characterised by conflict more than cooperation. From the 1500s to the mid-1950s, colonialism was imposed all over Southeast Asia. Some of the major colonisers were the Europeans, Japanese and the United States and all in all, there were seven colonial powers in Southeast Asia. They imposed their political and cultural domination over the Southeast Asian people and territories and after almost 500 years of being ruled by the
A new kind of war has been developing in the 21st Century. It is very different from the mass conflicts of World War I and World War II, when countries mobilized millions of armed troops and immense industrial resources. Wars have gotten smaller, but one could argue that they are even more vicious than they were in the past. With the advancement of technology, straightforward invasions of countries have become less common, and tactics such as cyber warfare have been employed. Neil C. Rowe argues
Native American and Syrian Essay Imagine losing everything you owned, leaving everything behind in order to survive, and having to go to a new land and trying to start over. Sad to say this was a reality for Native Americans and Syrians. Native Americans had lived on this land for thousands of years until the late 1800's when Andrew Jackson, a U.S. president, decided to expand into lands belonging to five Indian tribes. Native Americans were then forced to move westward on the “Trail of Tears
of Samuel Huntington was “one group of relatively wealthy and mostly Democratic societies, led by the United States engaged in a pervasive ideological, political, economic and at times military conflict with another group of somewhat poorer Communist societies led by Soviet Union” . Much of the conflicts during Cold War occurred in the ‘Third World’ outside the two camps of the ‘Free World’ and ‘Communist Block’ which comprised of countries which were often poor, lacked political stability, were
of responsibility and faith which encouraged them to fight for the difficulties. Martin Luther King, the leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement and Nelson Mandela, the president of South Africa would be compared and contrasted in this essay. Dr. Martin Luther King (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American political activist, the most famous leader of the American civil rights movement. Considering a peacemaker throughout the world for his promotion of nonviolence and equal