Kofi Annan

which caused a rift in the international community because some saw it as a violation of the prohibition of the Use of Force. Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the UN, recalled the failures of the Security Council, in his Millennium Report in 2000, to react decisively to the tragedies that were occurring in the various countries. As a result of those tragedies Kofi Annan asked all member states how are we supposed to respond to tragedies that offend…

Langston University Biology professor Gnanambal ( Charmaine) Naidoo spent seven weeks during the summer in South Africa as a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow. Dr. Naidoo collaborated with Professor Mark Laing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg. Dr. Naidoo reviewed the both the undergraduate and graduate Plant Pathology curriculum and the laboratory exercises. She also mentored graduate students and postdocs and presented seminars at two locations of the host institution.…

The United Nations and the Identification and Prevention of Genocides What is genocide? A genocide is a mass killing with intent to destroy whole, or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Some examples of genocides may come to mind: the Holocaust, Rwanda and the killings of indigenous people in the early twentieth century. These terrible crimes have haunted humanity’s past, but the United Nations (UN) still allows genocides to occur today. But why? The United Nations need…

which the United Nations failed to provide abrupt support to the Tutsi tribe when Hutu extremists attempted to kill off all of the tribe. Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, delivered a speech to the world stating, “All of us who cared about Rwanda…wish that we could have prevented the genocide” (Annan, 1998). Whether or not the UN did everything in their power to help the Hutu’s is a debatable issue still discussed today. The Hutu’s were not assisted wholly by the UN when…

He presents both sides of the coin, which we can use when analyzing the film. In one instance Annan mentions Rwanda, saying that the “genocide showed us how the terrible consequences of inaction can be in the face of mass murder”, and on the other hand he mentions Kosovo, in which NATO’s decision to bomb Kosovo as a measure to solve the conflict…

/?????/??? “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race”, Kofi Annan asserts. Annan is proposing that even though we may be different from one another, we can coexist as “one human race.” I concur with him, but I believe this unison will obviously have some issues. Even so, I believe the race can prevail and survive. As long as we accept one another’s uniqueness and strive for a common goal, we’ll stay united. To start off…

Tonight, we honour one of our nation’s youngest, yet extremely accomplished environmental activists. Severn Cullis-Suzuki has shown an interest in the environment and its preservation from an early age on, as she explored the nature surrounding Vancouver together with her father, famous environmentalist David Suzuki. She founded the Environmental Children’s organization at age 9, still in Elementary School. By age 12, she had become so invested in environmental activism that she was invited to…

Kestrel Leung ENG4U1-06 Lindsay Smith June 21, 2017 Self Growth Growth is a natural part of being human. It does not only apply to physical development, but also mental. Room by Emma Donoghue follows the journey of Jack, a five-year-old boy, and his mother. This is a story about them breaking free from one problem and being tossed into another. From Old Nick trapping the mother, to Jack exploring the outside world, Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel Room divides the book into two parts and uses the…

According to Charles Murray the lower levels of the American education system are to be blamed for the considerable amount of students who fail at the college level. Murray believes that the lower levels of the American education system, kindergarten through eighth grade, are the foundation for the standard for the degree of education that will follow, “Starting early is partly a matter of necessity: There’s a lot to learn, and it takes time.” (236). Those who wish to earn a B.A. are not being…

operations memoir Interventions: A Life in War and Peace which at the time was Kofi Annan. Kofi Annan cabled Dalliare back and stated that he was not to commence in the raid. In the chapter, “Rwanda: In the Shadow of Somalia,” Annan explains that at the start of 1994, the UN had thousands of troops working in different peacekeeping operations, and the political climate had changed due to the recent events in Somalia. Moreover, Annan states that US experience in Somalia dictated the…