support. The United Nations did make some contributions such as establishing the United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda(UNOMUR) along the border between Uganda and Rwanda‚ and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) for peacekeeping‚ humanitarian assistance and general support for the peace process. However‚ the UNAMIR was insufficient and poorly equipped which made an other incident happen. On April 6 1994‚ a plane carrying Rwanda’s president Habyarimana and Burundi’s president
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1 The modern nation state is characterized by a number of different criteria. Firstly‚ it is a state or country with clearly defined borders‚ within which‚ one can find people of similar cultural or racial persuasion; the majority of which share the same cultural identity or beliefs. The modern nation state is also self-defined and sovereign with its own government‚ one that maintains its own armed forces. The government is usually effected by an established bureaucracy and power is held centrally
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POLITICAL SCIENCE 150: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Fall 2014 Mondays and Wednesdays 10am Stiteler Hall B6 Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-3:30pm or by appointment Professor Jessica Stanton Office: Stiteler Hall 214 Phone: (215) 898-7646 Email: jstan@sas.upenn.edu HEAD TEACHING ASSISTANT Ruolin Su suruolin@sas.upenn.edu TEACHING ASSISTANTS Julia Cramer Patrick O’Halloran Javier Revelo-Rebolledo Jeremy Springman cramerju@sas.upenn.edu pohal@sas.upenn.edu jrev@sas
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Rwanda‚ a small landlocked country in central Africa‚ has a long and rich history of differences and conflicts. One of the most known historic events of this region is the Rwandan Genocide which took 800‚000 lives over the course of four months (Britannica). The conflict between two tribal groups‚ the Hutu and Tutsis‚ had been accumulating for decades before it finally reached its breaking point. The Rwandan genocide can be attributed to three main factors: Belgian colonial policies‚ tribal tensions
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rare images of the aftermath of terror‚ shock and death on the edge of human experience. His painting ’The Preacher’‚ winner of the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1995‚ was completed following his visit to Rwanda in 1995 with the Australian peacekeeping forces. In his own words: “The Preacher is probably the most famous painting I’ve done. It’s in art books all over the world‚ it’s been published many times - it’s even on the cover of some African Bibles. The Preacher has become a symbol of
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to have for one another. What I felt words the video was hurt and angrier towards the people that knew what was happening but didn’t want to help. In one of the interviews Clinton said” The US had just pulled American troops out of a disastrous peacekeeping mission in Somalia – later made famous in the book "Black Hawk Down" – the year before. It had vowed never to return to a conflict it couldn’t understand‚ between clans and tribes it didn’t know‚ in a country where the US had no national interests
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Roméo Dallaire is the founder of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative‚ a worldwide organization with the mission to end the enrollment and recruitment and use of child soldiers. commended advocate for human rights‚ particularly with respect child soldiers‚ veterans‚ and the anticipation of mass monstrosities‚ General Dallaire is additionally a regarded government and UN guide and previous Canadian Senator. All through his recognized military profession‚ General Dallaire served in staff‚ training
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Newspaper commentary: Pakistani girl got shot In the last century‚women empowerment movements swept across Europe clamoring for gender equality.The successful struggle granted girls and women the right to education in many countries.Nevertheless‚until today‚the blessing hasn’t reached Pakistan.Falling into the shadow of Taliban‚universal education is nothing more than a pipe dream to many girls there. Malala‚a 15-year-old activist who promoted women’s right to education in Pakistan was shot
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1. The purpose of this background paper on the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (E-8C Joint STARS) is to describe the system’s mission and capabilities‚ the different contributions it has provided in past conflicts and operations‚ and the role the weapon system will play in future scenarios even outside of the conventional military operations. 2. The main mission of the E-8C Joint STARS is intelligence‚ surveillance‚ and reconnaissance (ISR). Gathering information from the battlefield
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Ethnic cleansing and genocide is the most dangerous form of war of secession that drown the modern day societies. Ethnic cleansing is done to create a group of people of same ethnicity in a place. It may be due to several reasons like high economic status of one group‚ due to enmity in the past against one group or absence of respect for human freedom by the government. Ethnic cleansing and genocides creates calamitous effects on countries. The government of Arab Republic of Egypt perceives ethnic
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