World Peace Essay

The protection and human security of civilians is one of the primary purposes of the UN department of peacekeeping, yet evidence for whether or not they are actually effective in prevention of civilian deaths is a topic that has been controversially debated since the end of the cold war when peacekeeping interventions escalated. While the UN has been criticized for it’s failures, there is no doubt that some of their peacekeeping missions have been highly effective in the protection of citizen…

As we continue to speculate the plausibility of superhuman AI, some have become concerned about our future regarding such technologically advanced entities. Their concerns are chiefly of two forms. Some concerns are regarding the possibility of AI systems achieving goals or exhibiting behaviors that are much different than what the designer originally purported. This may happen perhaps due to our inability to understand the technical issues involving complex systems, resulting in design errors.…

obligation to the land. More often than not I am astonished and saddened at callus remarks such as, we should just “pull out” and let “them” figure it out. When the U.S. makes the decision to invade a foreign land it is her responsibility as a leading world power to ensure the job is done both accurately and completely. If we irresponsibly chose to leave the land with loose ends there is the potential for radical extremist to capitalize on the recovering nations vulnerability and defeats the…

Terrorist a Villain or a Hero? War exists, terrorism exists and they will continue. Just War is a doctrine used by nations such as the United States that justifies war. When there are horrendous acts occurring on or by people it can be morally implied to go to war. A war that is deemed as moral is widely supported as a country is fighting for what they believe in. Laurie Calhoun’s perspective is that terrorists also use the Just War Theory. She states that “both parties to every conflict…

(2009) say that elected leaders under the last term of a term-limit can diverge from the population’s interests and go to war. As stated earlier, the Democratic Peace Theory is a theory that believes democracies hesitate to engage in armed conflict with other democracies because of mutual democratic pacifism maintaining that the state of peace can easily be sustained between democratic nations. However, democracies can engaging in war through a coup, such as the coup in Venezuela when the…

There is something special about a golf course in the morning. Over the last 5 years, I have spent a lot of mornings on a golf course. Before I got my driver’s license I would have my grandparents take me to the golf course in the morning and get picked up later in the day. Once I got my license, I would drive to the course early in the morning and be one of the first people out on the course so I would have the entire course to myself to practice on. As a sophomore in high school, I got a job…

everyone’s lives better and easier. Someone might argue that war is right because without it, there would be a greater evil in the world that no war could end. They would also say that whenever there is war, new technology is developed which puts us ahead of our time, for example in WWI tanks were created then in WWII bombs and machine guns were used. War helps the world to take different courses in history because whoever wins the war gets to write the…

Despite a lack of any explicit mention of peacekeeping in the UN Charter, the powers given to the UNSC in Chapter VI of the Charter to take collective action to maintain international peace and security, have led the international system to look to the UNSC to authorise peacekeeping operations. As the UNSC has this primary responsibility, and has explicitly remained “seized of the matter”, any peacekeeping operation in Libya must be…

creating peace or the consequences of lighting the fire of warfare within a nation. These obstacles of pushing to bargain for what one side desires is just human nature, anywhere from nationwide conflicts to mere bickering between two people at a swap meet. While there are a million prospective directions of where a settlement can go, one thing is certain that in politics and warfare is that there will either be peace or there will be war due to the nature of politics. The politics of peace and…

In the glare of an ever-present and far-reaching news cycle, decisions to engage in war are of paramount concern to a state. Given this greater accountability, there is perhaps an even stronger emphasis for states to have sound moral reasoning in its actions leading to and during war. Some would argue that there is no room for justice in war. According to realists, wars are fought on the basis of power and security issues; “the pursuit of lesser national interests rarely justifies war”…