Paramilitary

The axiom that trade leads to peace seems logical. Trade is always profitable (for at least one partner), and it would be counter-productive to do anything that would disrupt the relationship through violence. However, people are seldom logical and trade is often anything but peaceful. History offers us ample evidence of trading practices that definitely did not lead to peace. For example, trade was achieved through a coerced partnership. Great powers forced lesser regions in to trade…

Historical case studies in reconciliation. Background to the Northern Ireland conflict After getting its independence from Britain, Ireland remained united with England, Wales as well as Scotland. When talking of the conflict in Northern Ireland, the division between Catholics and Protestants cannot be omitted. Historically, the Irish nation is a catholic nation. However, the citizens in North Ireland have ancestors who were Protestant immigrants from England and Scotland. Therefore, the…

Conservation Corp built more than 800 parks and planted nearly 3 billion trees nationwide,” (Foner, Garraty n.p). Training and disciplining a large group of men also proved quite useful as, “The army’s experience in managing such large numbers and the paramilitary discipline learned by corpsmen provided unexpected preparation for the massive call-up of civilians in World War II,” (Foner, Garraty n.p). With any radical suggestion such as this, criticism will come, and in this case, the problem…

Texas and his involvement with covert actions in the Middle East. Charlie Wilson was not necessarily the most influential man in Washington, D.C. at the time, but throughout the movie his roles in Congress seemed to expand. The film covers the paramilitary covert action of supplying weapons to Afghanistan during their war with the Soviet Union. Charlie Wilson is a key component that initially urges the covert action into existence; He also oversees the action until its end in 1989. Key…

Colombia is a small country located in South America. The people of this country have lived in fear for many years. In 1538 Spain entered Colombia. Before Spain’s entry, the land was populated mostly by isolated tropical-forest Indians. Simon Bolivar became the first president of The Republic of Greater Colombia, after a 14 year war that ended when Bolivar defeated the Spanish. A bloody war began in 1948 when a presidential hopeful Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was assassinated. This did not end…

Until fairly recently, historians such as Victor Yakunoff, O Tannin, and Donald Calman” have viewed 1930s and 40s Japan as being run by an almost fascist regime, though they differed as to what extent, fascism took hold over the Japanese government in this era. While O. Tanin argued that Japan fit many of the requirements to be labelled a facist state, Yakunoff declares that due to a lack of mass movement in support of the fascist parties, Japan’s government was lacking in key characteristics…

What civil rights groups influenced how you, as an individual, are treated today? In the United States, racial tolerance has been the product of various struggles by civil rights groups and individuals over several decades. As racial tolerance should be one of the basic foundations of any society, it had to be attained through various routes in America; some being peaceful, while unfortunately the majority being violent. For African Americans, tolerance through civil rights was achieved through…

The Easter Rising is the defining event of the modern Irish republican tradition. Most Irish nationalists regard the Rising as the most important event in twentieth-century Irish history. Without it, Irish politics would have been shaped by the moderate constitutional nationalism of John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party, and southern Ireland may have remained part of the British Empire for much of the twentieth-century. One of the driving forces behind the rebellion was Patrick Pearse, an…

at the movie. For instance, the movie, as his story, intends to explain the decisions that were made by Mandela to use extreme force against the apartheid state. Along with other people from the African National Congress, he arranged a group of paramilitary, that exploded buildings in South Africa so they can destroy the Government. The movie does not hesitate from what could be explained as terrorism. Although the movie director decided to follow the disagreements specified by Mandela in his…

Colombia, being the oldest democracy in Latin America, has been, and is still, under control of illegal paramilitary, such as the FARC, and other drug trafficking organizations in areas of government and society. FARC, with the aim to achieve a dominant influence in Colombia, is able to use fear and persuasion to either win over the people of Colombia, or destroy…