Internal Conflict Research Paper
Internal Conflict
Vicki Hinton Vandeventer
Global Security SEC/450
October 24th 2011
Danielle Kelley
Internal Conflict Internal conflict is something dealt with daily. It can be personal, spiritual, between different cultural groups, states, or nations. Internal conflict can be differences, fights, battles, or wars. In every day news there are stories about countries with competitive or opposing factions within the group. The world is complicated because the changing nature of the conflicts presented today. This makes the environment very hard to live in.
Diversity (religious, cultural, racial, and gender) Every part of the world is dealing with some type of diversity, differences in religion, culture, race, gender, politics, and …show more content…
People were attacked and some even killed that resembled certain types of Muslims. In 1965 and 1992 there were the race riots in Los Angeles, 1967 in Detroit. Every race has its own problem with racism. Segregation was still a known fact here in Anadarko in the 1960s; there were white bathrooms, water fountains, classes, and buses, and there were different bathrooms, water fountains, classes, and buses for African Americans. Throughout history there are numerous accounts of racism. Today there are still issues, and problem with the same. Not just against one race, but all races. Between 1918 and 1939 the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremises group targeted African Americans when they were set free after the American Civil War. The KKK spread terror over the lives of the African Americans. African Americans were not the only ones who the KKK terrorized. They also hated the Jews, Catholics, liberals, and anyone else who was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) NAACP asks Washington to help against the violence of the KKK but did not receive any …show more content…
The UN provided Peacekeeping by putting in charge Special Rapporteur Martinez Cobo of Ecuador to so a study on Indigenous Populations. His study concluded in 1984 that there were many laws put in place to protect them but were mostly disregarded. The results showed that if something was not done than this problem threatened their very existence. In 1982 the results of Cobo’s study formed a group that has met in Geneva, and still meets there today to give the people of Indigenous Populations a chance to speak their minds and their views. This has helped them work on two most important goals; creating a permanent forum to work on these issues and drafting a declaration on the rights that these people have. This declaration is still under review by the UN Commission on Human Rights. The UN Commission on Human Rights did take the steps to create a permanent forum for these
Vicki Hinton Vandeventer
Global Security SEC/450
October 24th 2011
Danielle Kelley
Internal Conflict Internal conflict is something dealt with daily. It can be personal, spiritual, between different cultural groups, states, or nations. Internal conflict can be differences, fights, battles, or wars. In every day news there are stories about countries with competitive or opposing factions within the group. The world is complicated because the changing nature of the conflicts presented today. This makes the environment very hard to live in.
Diversity (religious, cultural, racial, and gender) Every part of the world is dealing with some type of diversity, differences in religion, culture, race, gender, politics, and …show more content…
People were attacked and some even killed that resembled certain types of Muslims. In 1965 and 1992 there were the race riots in Los Angeles, 1967 in Detroit. Every race has its own problem with racism. Segregation was still a known fact here in Anadarko in the 1960s; there were white bathrooms, water fountains, classes, and buses, and there were different bathrooms, water fountains, classes, and buses for African Americans. Throughout history there are numerous accounts of racism. Today there are still issues, and problem with the same. Not just against one race, but all races. Between 1918 and 1939 the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremises group targeted African Americans when they were set free after the American Civil War. The KKK spread terror over the lives of the African Americans. African Americans were not the only ones who the KKK terrorized. They also hated the Jews, Catholics, liberals, and anyone else who was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) NAACP asks Washington to help against the violence of the KKK but did not receive any …show more content…
The UN provided Peacekeeping by putting in charge Special Rapporteur Martinez Cobo of Ecuador to so a study on Indigenous Populations. His study concluded in 1984 that there were many laws put in place to protect them but were mostly disregarded. The results showed that if something was not done than this problem threatened their very existence. In 1982 the results of Cobo’s study formed a group that has met in Geneva, and still meets there today to give the people of Indigenous Populations a chance to speak their minds and their views. This has helped them work on two most important goals; creating a permanent forum to work on these issues and drafting a declaration on the rights that these people have. This declaration is still under review by the UN Commission on Human Rights. The UN Commission on Human Rights did take the steps to create a permanent forum for these