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April 23, 2012 - 1563 words | Book Reviews » Religion
In his book The Shia Revival: How CoNflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future Vali Nasr addresses an issue that is gaining increased importance in the contemporary coverage of global Islam: Sunni-Shia relations. Vali Nasr is a widely respected scholar who claims expertise... Read Article »
February 16, 2012 - 2494 words | International Affairs » Climate Change
Climate change negotiations have been on the international stage for almost four decades. They have a complex history, and act as a comprehensive example of the many variables, obstacles, environments, and processes that can affect any international negotiation. This... Read Article »
January 29, 2012 - 5067 words | Political Science » Israeli-palestinian Conflict
The level of displacement surrounding the Israel-Palestinian coNflict is astounding. At this point there are over nine million Palestinian refugees scattered throughout the globe (King-Irani 924,). Arguing that their situation is dehumanizing and infringes upon their... Read Article »
July 19, 2011 - 6157 words | Education » Athletics
The current system of collegiate football and basketball in America’s universities is littered with corruption caused by the nationwide popularity of “big time” college sports. The positive effects that student-athlete performance can have on a university... Read Article »
June 13, 2011 - 1781 words | Political Science » Israeli Palestinian Conflict
The Israeli-Palestinian coNflict is a perplexing problem that weighs heavily on the world. For over seventy-five years, blood has been spilt over a piece of land about the size of New Jersey. Numerous attempts have been made to find peace in what is referred to as... Read Article »
April 28, 2011 - 2930 words | International Affairs » Sub-saharan Africa
The problems associated with democratic reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are manifold. While the name of the country surely lends itself to an assumption of regime type, in actuality, this area has experienced great civil unrest over the last five... Read Article »
April 8, 2011 - 2732 words | Law and Justice » International Law
International Humanitarian Law, based on the concepts of jus ad bello, is defined to be the law of war. This means that the laws involved are meant to be active in a situation of an armed coNflict or during war. However, just like international law, international humanitarian... Read Article »
March 2, 2011 - 2990 words | Anthropology » Human Rights
In the aftermath of mass violence and terror, nations are left in a state of disillusionment, fear, and often a lack of state legitimacy. In this atmosphere many nations have resorted to using different forms of reconciliation and peace-building processes including... Read Article »
February 25, 2011 - 3244 words | Political Science » Russia
The Republic of Chechnya in Russia’s North Caucasus region has drawn significant attention for being host to remarkable instability, thriving terrorism, and a staggering display of human rights violations over the past two decades, including torture, illegal... Read Article »
February 10, 2011 - 10273 words | Psychology » Memory
Previous research suggests that culture iNfluences our autobiographical memories. This study sought to determine if the collectivism/individualism dimension of culture iNfluences the process of imagination iNflation. Forty college students were given an Life Events... Read Article »
January 4, 2011 - 2030 words | International Affairs » Ethnic Conflict
Although peace and pacifism are familiar ideas to most students today, for much of human history these concepts have been relegated to the religious domain and excluded from the study and practice of politics.[1] At the same time, war--organized violent coNflict between... Read Article »
January 3, 2011 - 5649 words | International Affairs » Human Security
“Human security means protecting vital freedoms. It means protecting people from critical and pervasive threats and situations, building on their strengths and aspirations. It also means creating systems that give people the building blocks of survival, dignity... Read Article »
October 14, 2010 - 3195 words | Psychology » Memory
The specific purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the factors that would permit an individual to dissociate himself from his true identity, including at a minimum threshold the change in knowledge of some personal events. It is not required that a person believe... Read Article »
June 18, 2010 - 8770 words | International Affairs » Horn Of Africa
CoNflict management in the Horn of Africa has been relatively unsuccessful. Foreign colonialism created boundaries that have yet to be resolved, and newly independent nations engaged in coNflicts responsible for human rights atrocities, child conscription, and collapse... Read Article »
May 11, 2010 - 16687 words | Anthropology » Sierra Leone
There is a growing consensus that the prevalence of a large youth population is not conducive to peace and that such a ‘youth bulge’ can even increase the risk of civil coNflict and political violence.[1] Richard Cincotta and Elizabeth Leahy argue that... Read Article »
April 20, 2010 - 7184 words | Political Science » Rwanda
1993 was not a very good year for Bill Clinton. An exception, perhaps, being the morning of January 20th when he stood at the west front of the United States Capitol building and took the Oath of Office to become the forty- second President of the United States, the... Read Article »
April 6, 2010 - 2254 words | Literary Criticism » Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary coNflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the working class, between coNflicting views of Mr. Thornton, and even between her coNflicting... Read Article »
December 11, 2009 - 4812 words | International Affairs » Conflict Negotiation
It is mid-1998. On news programs in the United States, the issue of intervention in Kosovo is addressed as a prevalent concern. It is at least mentioned in every presentation: any progress that's been made or any possible change is offered to the audience with up-to... Read Article »
October 19, 2009 - 3174 words | International Affairs » Afghanistan War
Nearly eight years into the war, the security situation in Afghanistan has begun to deteriorate at an increasingly fast past. Previously secured areas have been undermined by increasing numbers of militants; significant increases in civilian casualties, caused primarily... Read Article »