Northern Ireland peace process

England, the central nation of the United Kingdom and much of the Western World for centuries, is named for a derivative of the Old English name Englaland, which means "land of the Angles". The Angles are an ancient Germanic people whose presence in history is dated as far back as the first century AD. Since then, the small island nation has grown politically, economically, and territorially. While most of this territorial gain has not been permanent, the British empire was at one point the…

social class in twelfth-century Italy called the “urban nobility.” How and why did this social class come into being and how did it affect the movement toward republican government. The urban nobility is a new social class formed by the merger of the Northern Italian feudal nobility and commercial aristocracy. The people in this class were nobles attracted by opportunities of long-distance and maritime trade, rising value of urban real estate, expanding communes etc. who settled in cities. The…

Thus, in 1926, Carl Rogers once again changed direction and transferred to Teacher’s College, Columbia University in (which happened to be just across the street!) where he enrolled in the clinical psychology PhD program. He studied alongside Leta Hollingworth, who was a leader in the child guidance movement. In 1928, Rogers moved to Rochester, New York, where he interned at the Institute for Child Guidance and was one of three psychologists to be offered a position at the Child Study Department…

"[A] misperception is that, if the peace process ends, a terrible war will ensue that will destroy the country. This is not true, because we are already in that war." - Jorge Enrique Mora, former commander of Colombian military. 2014 marks the 50th year that the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) was founded in the rural farmland of Colombia. Citing the inequalities of globalization and corrupting effects of foreign investment, the FARC grew from a grassroots socialist movement into…

particular customer. Intelligence is both a process and a product that has played an important role in diplomacy and warfare throughout history.” The function of modern United States intelligence is often accredited to the 1950s and 1960s as the Cold War intensified and the Intelligence Community developed and expanded exponentially. However, the use…

Sam Harris and His Rational Point of View In his book Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris pulls no punches on the subject of atheism, which according to Harris, is “Simply an admission of the obvious.” (Harris 51) He provides many compelling arguments that may make even the most devout of Christians to rethink their beliefs. Stated very basically, Christianity is an antiquated system of beliefs and morals that hinders our progress in the sciences, offers no moral advice that average human…

In what way is sport and national identity linked? Introduction Nowadays, national identity has been highlighted through a significant part of culture, namely, sport (Bairner, 2008). According to Oxford Dictionaries, national identity is ‘A sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture and language’. Particularly, it is a sense of belonging to a nation or state (Bairner, 2003) although there are controversial arguments on the concept. As Edensor (2007)…

removal. As the decision by the Cabinet Secretary to declare the petitioner prohibited, and the reasons for the decision, were not communicated to him; and he was also not given an opportunity prior to his deportation to question the decision; due process as envisaged article 47 of the Constitution was not…

of mandatory mediation, as a way to encourage the parties to the dispute to use the mediation process as a preferred way to resolve disputes. Unlike the process of facilitation, where the third party merely hosts the parties and encourages them to continue negotiating in a neutral, welcoming environment, the mediator plays a more active role. The mediator not only facilitates but also designs the process, and assists and helps the parties to get to the root of their conflict, to understand their…

them. The marriage of Pocahontas to John rolfe ended this first anglo-powhatan war. But eventually the Indians fought back killing 347 people + John Rolfe, and through that a second anglo-powhatan war happened in which they were defeated, and the peace treties basically screwed the indians from their ancestral lands. Lost due to disease, lack of unity, and because the natives were of no actual profit to the coloninists they could be disposed of. 32. The Indian's new world - Indians ended up…