Humanitarian intervention

Harm reduction is an effective way of help people with addiction issues, it meets the addicts where they are on their journey and doesn’t try to force abstinence on them, which let’s face it, tends to backfire! “Harm reduction allows us to assess each person individually and plan treatment that is tailored to the individual’s relationship with alcohol and other drugs. It also incorporates other important problems: emotional disorders, family problems, social alienation, and medical complications…

targets agreed during programme planning (GoI, 2011a; Unaids, 2014a; Unaids, 2014b). Such data whilst valuable as a means of measure against reaching targets ignores important issues, such as the quality of counselling provided; sustainability of interventions; experience from the client’s point of view; and the implication of HIV counselling services in the wider public health…

The British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) and the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) are two of the most prominent figures in history of the economic science. Their economic thoughts not only had huge impact in the past, but, along with their debate, will continue to shape the future. Their ideas contributed to the vicissitudes of the world economy by influencing generations of policy-makers. During the Great Depression, US President Franklin…

Modern liberalism aids in social welfare programs and several other programs that are used for the benefit of the society. Modern liberalists are humanitarian in a sense that they use the state benefits and government benefits and encourage to help those who cannot help themselves. For modern liberalists, a mixed economy seems more fitted for society. For instance, modern liberalists believe in diversity…

the first World War in 1917, the United States has periodically intervened militarily in other nations because there is no democratically elected supranational government to police the world, the default principle guiding thinking about military intervention has been national sovereignty, or self-determination. Countries should not interfere in the affairs of other countries. However, few have believed that this principle should be absolute. United States has many involvements in international…

launchers, thrust-to-weight rations, soft lay downs, deep penetration, and the comparative advantages of protracted versus spasm attacks”. However comical it may seem to use such blatant comparisons, it has an advantage over solely looking at in a humanitarian…

according to General Welsh, “little doubt that China’s air force will continue to modernize...growing role the PLAAF is playing in China’s military modernization... As our two air forces begin to renew and regularize engagements in the areas of humanitarian assistance and di- saster relief, USAF/PLAAF participation under the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement, both sides agreed that we must do more to foster understanding” (Air & Space Power…

military service (Mearsheimer 24). Reducing military occupation abroad would also engineer security benefits, as it would decelerate anti-American nationalist resentment and prevent future terrorist movements from gaining momentum from American intervention because instead of pursuing social engineering and democratic reform, the U.S. would only be present to counter a potential hegemon that would threaten local politics (Posen 121). This would be a step towards reinventing the American image…

The HIV and AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is the most serious in the world. It is estimated that as many as 24.7 million people were living with HIV in 2013. This extraordinary large number is approximately 71% of the total global epidemic. Approximately one million of these people with HIV will die each year and another 1.5 million will become infected. Although HIV is a problem in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, some countries have higher numbers than others. The most severely affected…

moreover is controlled, modified and gerrymandered by the powers that be, to alter or suppress perception in their interests. The Matrix (1999) tells the story of Thomas Anderson, a miscreant cyber-criminal under alias ‘Neo’ revealed by other-worldly intervention from the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar to be the ham-fisted Jesus Christ allegory destined to save mankind from simulation-based machine bondage. Berger develops his thesis by providing examples to the malleability…