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
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
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
In this essay it will be argued that allies play a significant role in support of the coun-try’s strategy . Specifically, Germany’s case will be analysed just after its unification in 1871, when Prussian Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck put remarkable efforts to make Germany a great power in Europe at that time. Geopolitical situation in the second part of the nineteenth century required a wide range of strategic movements within the European political arena. Bismarck clearly understood that protection
This essay is devoted to a real global disaster since the second half of the XX century, an international terrorism, which is classified as unlawful use of force or violence against civilians in order to coerce or intimidate a government or the civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives. It is clear today that the problem of international terrorism shall be reviewed as part of the whole complex of global problems. In this context the tragedy in Munich in 1972 is of a very
in Northern Ireland. The protest began as a blanket protest but escalated into becoming a dirty protest, followed by the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes. These hunger strikes quickly became a public conflict between the leading members of the IRA and the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. This essay will examine the events leading up to and during the hunger strikes and will explore the reasons that the hunger strikes are considered a ‘triumph
surrounding the possibility of declining government response to public opinion, loss of accountability and the overall destruction of democratic principles. So the following essay will argue if whether or not the multi-party parliament matters in the context of a dominant party system. To articulate this position this essay will focus on South Africa as far as its political party