Kosovo

influence them differently. Especially for Edita Rexha, blue-eyed, with curly, slightly untamed brown hair, whose vision of life contrasts fundamentally with an average young, seventeen-year-old women living in the United States. Born in Prishtina, Kosovo, senior Edita encapsulates a story of struggle, strength and success. When only a month old, her family was forced to flee their home countries because of a violent war in Serbia. “They wanted to ethnically cleanse it and kill us all,” she…

The Bosnian genocide actually started in the 70s. It was little known because it was during the time of the cold war. The Cold War officially started in 1947, right after the end of World War 2. Nobody knew about the genos=cide because Russia had nuclear missiles in Cuba and everybody was thinking about that. As the cold war was in the middle of the 45-year war, the genocide started to fade away. There is little known about this because nobody knew it happened until after and witnesses were…

In order to end on a high note, Wiesel assures that positive things have occurred. From saving victims in Kosovo to the collapse of communism, they all share one common thing: “the world was not silent” (Wiesel). In this new century, terrible things have also happened: 9/11, the Boston Bombing, the rise of ISIS and Al Qaeda, and endless mass shootings. Even when indifference is prevalent today, progress in raising awareness exists. Citizens donate food to pantries to aid the poor, students…

Dr. Benjamin Lambeth points out in his case study “Kosovo and the Continuing SEAD Challenge” that the current conflicts in the Middle East do not pose any real threat when it comes to ground to surface attacks and the last time that the U.S. Air Force faced any type of missile defense was in Kosovo. Even then the rebels in Kosovo did not have a modern IAD but were still able to shoot down an F-16 and F-117 (Lambeth). The rebels were able…

In In Defense of War, Nigel Biggar argues that war can be a just means to correct acts of injustice taken by many countries, and that it is the duty of other countries to defend those who cannot defend themselves; just war, therefore, must be a humanitarian, defensive action. Biggar supports this thesis by first explaining the two basic principles of just war: jus ad bellum-- regarding the justice of going to war in the first place-- and in bello-- regarding justice in the course of fighting…

Despite promoting racial bigotry in his country, Milosevic chants in favor of both the Serbian people and for the endurance of “peace and brotherhood among peoples,” at his famous St. Vitus Day speech at Kosovo Field, a former battleground against the Ottoman Empire (Milosevic, 3). Milosevic ignored the pleas of those who want secede peacefully from Yugoslavia and tries to keep Yugoslavia together. At the same time, Milosevic attempted to expand Serbian…

outside the country to look for work. The situation of job discrimination only got worse with time in 1989 Serbia took over Kosovo and left thousands of Kosovar workers without a job. Jones describes in his book “ Serbs initiated a large repressive drive in Kosovo that ended the province’s autonomy within Serbia, dismissed tens of thousands of Kosovars…from their jobs, and made Kosovo ‘one large militia camp’” (Jones 319). Many people throughout Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were also dismissed…

The area I am choosing for my potential service project is the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has many areas that suffer from a lack of good education. Therefore, I think a good service project could be some form of trade school. This could be something along the lines of farming, glassmaking, or another form of hands on work. Not only could this trade school be used to teach adults, it could extend even to children to teach them how to read, write, and other endeavors into education…

Elie can use other events that relate to his message like the assassinations of Martin Luther King jr or the bloodbaths in Pakistan. Elie’s speech gave us insight about how Indifference has changed the world. NATO was formed and helped refugees in Kosovo. It also explains how people that were great leader were also subject to Indifference. In the speech it talks about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and how he and the governments were indifferent of concentration camps. However, this shows a parallel…

Individual Responsibility is that all humans are the cause of their own actions; they provoke and decide to exhibit behaviour and therefore should be held morally accountable for these actions. There has been forms of responsibility for individuals and their behaviour for over a century, whereas there have only been statements regarding conduct of international organizations since the 1980’s. In International Law, the main criminal responsibility for individuals is dealt with by the…