War and Peace in Mindanao Murray Smith In December 2006 I had the chance to visit the island of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. Mindanao and the surrounding islands rarely make the headlines except when some Western tourists are kidnapped. But Mindanao has been the scene of an ongoing conflict that has now lasted for more than 35 years‚ as the Muslim Bangsa Moro people have fought for self-determination. To date the conflict has claimed 120‚000 lives‚ many of them civilians. More than
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Reflection is central to the novel; the novel is spawned by a visit back to Gene’s old school‚ and the work hinges upon a dialogue between the past and the present‚ and the relation of a man to his much younger self. Gene confesses that he is still stuck in the time of World War II; his memory still has a tremendous hold on him‚ as evidenced by his ability to recall the goings on of fifteen years’ past with such detail. The presence of memory‚ and its role over time‚ is a major theme of this book;
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In Salt Lake City‚ Utah‚ Chief Chris Burbank was forced to resign.‚ in the wake of a pending sexual harassment lawsuit by three female police officers. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker accused Burbank of failing to take critical action in the aftermath of sexual harassment allegations within his department. Becker questions Burbank of failure to act when he didn’t demote Deputy Chief Rick Findlay in 2014 and failed to implement training and defensive measures for officers after the female officers
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Worry about World Peace World Peace is something that will never happen. Too many countries have too much military power and don’t want to give in to any other country. War is something that the world is going to have to deal with because there has been very few years over the history of the world that have been war free. Like one quote by an unknown author says‚ "Peace is rare: less than 8% of the time since the beginning of recorded time has the world been entirely at peace. In a total of 3530
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non-violence‚ and gave up the use of the phrase “passive resistance”‚ in connection with it‚ so much so that even in English writing we often avoided it and used instead the word “satyagraha”... [Satyagraha in South Africa‚ 1926 from Johnson‚ p. 73.‚ (found on Wikipedia‚ Satyagraha)] To counter the hatred which exists on BOTH sides of the Israeli-Palestine conflict I call on all peaceful‚ freedom loving people to engage in satyagraha to bring a swift end to the violence and guard the dignity for the
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PEACE the need of Hour… I am looking after an Orphanage home called ‘Bethel Children’s Home’‚ which is a ministry of Frontier Mission Society‚ where Seventy (70) children are being taken care of. The place where I live is totally insecure where killing has been done at free will. People are not safe here anymore. There are many faction of Insurgents group in our small-populated state‚ Manipur. Most of them were uneducated and school dropped out. The situation here is getting worst each day‚ many
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inner peace in TWO religious traditions. (18/20)Inner peace is defined as an internal quality of calmness and security which puts the mind at ease and fills the adherent with a sense of tranquility and assurance. For adherents to Christianity and Islam‚ inner peace is an inevitable and hugely rewarding consequence of genuine faith. It is developed rather than striven for‚ through a unique combination of personal‚ communal‚ scriptural and doctrinal means. Christians believe that inner peace is obtained
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Islam: A Religion of Peace What is a Muslim? In what do the followers of Islam believe? In today’s world‚ people should be asking these questions‚ if only to learn more about the world around them. In this paper‚ I will discuss how the basic ideas of Islam compare to the six bases of religion listed in our textbook. The six bases are: (1) deal in some way with peoples’ relationship to the unseen world of spirits‚ ancestors‚ gods and demons; (2) developed a system of myths about the unseen world
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into large scale violence. Peace building describes interventions that are designed to prevent the start of violent conflict by creating sustainable peace. This start before conflict starts or it ends. Post conflict peace building means action to identify and support structures which will tend to strengthen and solidify peace in order to avoid relapse into conflict. Peace building process takes different dimensions according to scholars. According to Barnett et al. post peace building process follows
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