NGO`s within Norway Norway is working effectively as a peacemaker. Norway acted alone in the early 1990s‚ but now there is more active engagement with the UN‚ other countries and international NGOs. Within Norway there is now more talk of the dugnad principle‚ of the value of community effort in building a barn or resolving a conflict. An example of such a co-operative international effort occurred after the Kenyan presidential election in December 2007‚ to prevent a potentially genocidal conflict
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EXPANDING TERRITORIES: COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY Comparative Literature: Concepts‚ Its Present status and New Territories 3/30/2010 Government Engineering College‚ Surat Ankita Khanna ABSTRACT The main objective of this paper is to provide researchers interested in the history and evolution of “comparative literature” with a collection of references delineating the evolution of the concept and the development of academic departments dedicated
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1. Describe the development of Spanish rule over its territory in America? The Spaniards came to North America as conquerors in order to disperse catholic religion and to collect fortunes of wealth in gold and silver‚ and increase the glory of imperial Spain. Hernan Cortes‚ driven by the dreams of gold and glory‚ set sail for Mexico from Cuba along with 600 soldiers. Cortes convinced the Totomacs‚ a society conquered by Mexica‚ to join him in assault against dominant Mexica. He led an expedition
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In Support of Israel’s Iron Dome Since the beginning of time Israel has been disputed land. Israel has been disputed by many ethnicities since before Christ. The Christians‚ Muslims‚ and Jews have ruled parts of Israel‚ and today the Jews rule once again. The Jews ruling Israel angers the Muslims and has left them susceptible to rockets and other forms of warfare. In 2004 the idea of an Iron Dome was presented to Israel. In 2007 Defense Minister Amir Peretz made the Iron Dome the solution to short-range
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Case – 1 The Office Equipment Company Office Equipment Company (OEC) must identify a manager to help set up and run a new manufacturing facility located in the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip. The position will have a minimum duration of three years. OEC manufactures office equipment such as photo copying machines‚ recording machines‚ mail scales‚ and paper shredders in eight different countries. OEC’s products are distributed and sold worldwide. Currently‚ OEC has no manufacturing facility
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The Impact of Hurricane‚ Earthquake and volcanoes on named Caribbean territories. The Caribbean territories are at the mercy of hurricanes‚ earthquakes and volcanoes. The region have a history of devastating geographical phenomena such as hurricane Gilbert in 1988 which kill 45 persons in Jamaica‚ 30 in Haiti and 5 in the Dominican republic‚ but the most devastating period for any one country in territories was in 2008‚ where in a three week span Haiti was hit by tropical storm Fay‚ hurricane
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What caused the first Arab-Israeli War? All throughout the early decades of the 20th century there had been tension between rival Jews and Arabs as they both believed the land of Palestine belonged to them. But on 14th May 1948 Ben Gurion announced the newly formed state of Israel and that is the main reason to what was the cause of the ‘War on Independence’. After the First World War Britain was given mandatory powers over Palestine as the countries of the Western World believed the
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Trey Eric Ms. Gonzales P3 January 8‚ 2013 The Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip is a territory on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean Sea‚ which borders Egypt on the southwest and borders Israel on the north and east. The population size of the Gaza strip is 1.7 billion people. The population in the Gaza Strip is predominately Muslim. Around the year 1949 the Gaza Strip was controlled by Egypt. In the six day war in 1967 Israel took control of the Gaza strip. Later on in 2005 Israel withdrew
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Traditionally the term refers to “the nomadic Arab of the desert”‚ but in the context of Israel‚ Bedouins are not a nomadic community but a social group part of the Arab minority‚ they represent the 13% of the total Arab population. Within the Israeli territory‚ Bedouins are located in different geographic areas: North-Galilee‚ between the Central District and the Haifa District‚ and in the Negev (South) [5]. In the Negev reside the 74% of Bedouin population that represents one fourth of the total population
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process. Identify and discuss what you consider to be the two most important fundamentals. Refer to one or more of the following mediation case studies to illustrate why your chosen fundamentals are more important that the others; Aceh‚ the Israel-Palestinian conflict and Syria. Introduction The international community‚ under chapter VI of the UN Charter‚ has adopted and integrated mediation into a formal institutionalized practice‚ and regards it as one of the most effective methods of preventing
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