For decades, people have engaged in wars as a motive to bring about peace. ... What is Civil War? In a research study that was conducted to give an in depth analysis on the definition of a civil war, Gersovitz and Kriger (2013) explained civil war as a "politically organized, large-scale, sustained, physically violent 4 conflict that occurs within a country principally among large/numerically important groups of its inhabitants or citizens over the monopoly of physical force within the country" (p. 3). ... Civil War: Peace or Continued Strife? ... As a result, a long civil war ensued...

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John Locke is one of most important Enlightenment philosophers throughout history because his philosophies are still used today . ... This was going on during the mid-seventeenth-century,which was an era of repression, rebellion, and civil war, and there is an outpouring of political pamphlets and tracts, the most influential writings came from John Locke. ... John Locke had an important impact on America's Political system. ... Obviously John Locke had an important impact on America's Political system because they are still used even today. ... A final thing that influenced Locke w...

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Genocide Bahutu The historical background to the Bahutu people (also known as Hutu) is important. ... A feudal society had, apparently, bred a docile and politically muted people. ... Attacks on Bahutu leaders and people continued for more than a year. Eighty-six high-ranking Bahutu officials were executed in late 1965; in all, between twenty-five hundred and five thousand Bahutus were killed during this dress rehearsal for a more horrendous genocide of the Bahutu people by Watutsis. ... The threat to civil peace was over, but the killings of Bahutus by the Watutsi authorities continue...

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In the United States, prejudice has led to the lynching of blacks, bombing of synagogues, the massacre of Native Americans, the illegal imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the harassment of homosexuals, and other violent acts against minority groups. ... Even people with no prejudices may nevertheless discriminate in their behavior. ... Supreme Court ruled that the states could not deny basic civil rights protections to homosexuals. ... On November 21,1991, the President George Bush signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1991. ... Wage differentials are especially importan...

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Janurary 20, 1961, President Kennedy stood in Washington, DC and addressed the American people. ... JFKs Inaugural Speech is one of the most important in American history. ... He speaks on topics such as international relations, American concerns, and freedom for all people. ... During the early Sixties, America was experiencing internal and external problems. With the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement at home and enemies being made overseas, the president had a laborious and intricate job to do. ...

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I now know a little more about what went on in Europe during that time, so I am better able to empathize with the people in the movie than in my previous encounter with the film. ... It's important to mention how films such as this are often times one of the best ways to get a mass of people to better understand a historical event. ... There were Jewish people survived the Holocaust. ... It is much more comfortable for 'the West' to think that atrocities of this magnitude would only be carried out by 3rd world regimes as necessary consequences of civil wars or tribal feuds. Ano...

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After describing how gender violence became a human rights violation articulated in formal documents of international law, this chapter discusses one of the most important new issues in the gender violence and human rights field, that of the trafficking of sex workers. ... During this period, strategies, programs and information circulated globally. ... At the 1993 UN Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, sponsored by the High Commission on Human Rights, this issue became even more important (see Schuler 1992). ... During her tenure as Special Rapporteur from 1994 until 2003, she prepar...

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Parallel to that phenomenon European States, during their colonial expansion over all continents, authorized two other forms of similar violence by non state actors: the corsairs and the colonial merchant companies, such as the East India Company or the Hudson Bay Company. ... It is interesting to note that in the resolution8 creating the the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, the UN Commission on Human Rights is "convinced that notwithstanding the way in which mercenaries or mercenary-related activities are used or the form they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, they ar...

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Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. ... They agitated ceaselessly for the political and civil rights that they deserved, and backed up their demands with well-thought-out logical arguments. ... The Declaration of the Rights of Woman was Gouges's most important contribution to advancing woman's rights in the Revolution. ... There were fourteen women among those arrested during the protests against the steep rise in prices of flour and bread, other wise known as the 'flour war' of 1775. ... In c...

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And yet, when Noriega was finally indicted in Miami in 1988, all the charges except one were related to activities that dated back before 1984, when he was our boy, helping with the U.S. war against Nicaragua. ... Among other things, he seems to have been dragging his feet about helping the U.S. in the contra war. ... We had to make sure that Panama was in the hands of people we could control before that date. ... Then in December 1989, the United States celebrated the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Cold War by invading Panama outright. ... Evidently this agreement was broken d...

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When discussing the topic of euthanasia, it is important to understand why it has become a choice for many suffering people. ... During the rein of the Nazis, euthanasia was a practice that was allowed and often times suggested (Weir 320). ... Hitler referred to these people as "Useless eaters" (Weir 321). ... Many of these men were on the battlefields of the Civil War and still would refuse to "put a man out of his mercy." ... Many of the laws today have been set up to protect the people from the people, such as drugs laws, gun laws, and violence laws. ...

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When colonized people view their colonizers as one oppressive human group they let themselves not only become racist but afraid of other people like them. ... According to Spender, the basic reason for hope is that art may enable the artist to have a connection with the external world by affecting the lives of other people who share the artist's modern creative visions. ... The terms he uses and their meanings are: (a) ethnoscapes, or groups of people such as tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles and others who are affecting the politics of nations as more and more people are thinking ab...

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He witnesses in his country how people judge themselves in such a way and he agrees that people must be taught to respect these rights not only for themselves but for all people. ... Most important, should they be taught that they are, above all, citizens of the United States, or should they instead be taught that they are, above all, citizens of a world of human beings, and that, while they happen to be situated in the United States, they have to share this world with the citizens of other countries?... During the Reconstruction period, the U.S government passed the 14th, 15th, and 16th amen...

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