International Committee of the Red Cross

Man is Inherently Good Various philosophers and scholars throughout history have believed that mankind is ultimately evil. This conviction is shared by the author William Golding and is expressed in his novel Lord of the Flies. Golding argues that when a group of people are left alone to fend for themselves, the results will be disastrous. He also supports the theory that all institutions are inherently evil in their nature. Humans are known to naturally choose hate over love, revenge over…

Unless we get rid of the weapons, there is always a chance that they will be used. Furthermore, the use of nuclear weapons can and will harm the environment. Atomic weapons are the one creation that can destroy life on Earth. According to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) website ¨It would take less than 0.1% of the explosive yield of the current global nuclear arsenal to bring about devastating agricultural collapse and widespread famine.¨ That is one scary scenario…

different charitable organizations. The areas in the world that Mikhail Gorbachev felt needed reform and advancement to were the environment, spreading democracy, and helping the poor and malnourished people in the world. By founding the Green Cross International, he fulfilled his duty of improving the…

The Red Wings Dilemma In late June 2005, a four man Navy Seal Reconnaissance team was inserted into the Kunar province of Afghanistan as a part of Operation Red Wings where they were tasked to track down and confirm the presence of known Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. While conducting the reconnaissance mission the team’s location was compromised by three civilian goat herders, including a young boy. The team had to make a choice of releasing the goat herders, killing them or restraining them and…

countries in the world. A notable example of intervention by an international NGO is the IFRC system. The IFRC deploys on the field the so-called Emergency Response Units (ERU), a standardized and modular package of personnel and equipment ready to be deployed in a disaster area on short notice. ERUs can be called upon in emergency situations, when local facilities are unable to cope and when the IFRC delegation or the national Red Cross or Red Crescent societies in the concerned country cannot…

of Rwanda” we got to see true event of what had occurred to approximately 1,000,000 people of Rwanda. The film interviewed several people that stayed or were in Rwanda during the genocide, like Phillip Gaillard who was head of the international committee for the Red Cross and how he helped save hundreds of lives in the process. Other interviews told the stories of people like General Romeo Dallaire who was task to preserve the peace between the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the extreme Hutu…

role of Civil Society has become extremely significant in International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law due to its contributions in developing and implementing their rules and principles. This development has revolutionized the International System as the ability of individuals to act on issues of concern for humanity is slowly becoming of increasing relevance on global platforms. Therefore, the study of International Relations must extend its purview to examine intersociety…

The death of the hundreds of thousands of Rwandan civilians is as much of the international community’s fault as the leaders of the genocide. There is evidence indicating that the UN was forewarned of the mounting genocide in Rwanda. According to declassified French documents, France had been informed of the mounting genocide from at least January 1993, more than a year before the Rwandan Genocide. Despite knowing this, French president François Mitterrand supported the Hutu leaders, who was…

Somalia is located in the north-eastern part of Africa. Famine in Africa has always been an issue. Recently there was a spike in this issue. In 2010 to 2012 there was the Somalia famine.This famine killed nearly 260,000 people in the country. Half of the people who were killed were children under the age of five.The famine was caused by a severe drought. This worsened because of conflict between rival groups who were fighting for power. The number of deaths during the most current famine was…

Carl Wilkens is the director of World Outside My Shoes and upstander in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He was the only American that stayed throughout the 100-day massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and tries to protect his friend in Rwanda and the kids that lived there and help the people living in Kigali during the brutal times of war. The genocide was the result of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death in a plane crash in 1994, according to the United Nations. A Hutu himself…