Peace Corps

Regardless of it being a workplace, school or other facilities, most place have rules in set. To each rule, there is a reason behind it that we all may not know. Often when two countries go to war, there is a lack of reasoning behind it. If we just send them off to argue for no reason, there is no point of the war itself. For centuries now, theologians and military researchers, have been studying a theory referred to as “Just War Theory.” The Just War theory itself, gives justification for the…

Pacifism is defined as “opposition to war or violence of any kind”. In theory, pacifism is an abstraction that would make the world an idyllic place, but when several parties are on the opposite side of the spectrum and decide to take what they want from others by using brute force, is pacifism plausible if one wants to survive? Over the past nine centuries, empires from all over the world have been invading countries, slaughtering thousands to claim land and anything else that they felt is…

Terrorist a Villain or a Hero? War exists, terrorism exists and they will continue. Just War is a doctrine used by nations such as the United States that justifies war. When there are horrendous acts occurring on or by people it can be morally implied to go to war. A war that is deemed as moral is widely supported as a country is fighting for what they believe in. Laurie Calhoun’s perspective is that terrorists also use the Just War Theory. She states that “both parties to every conflict…

Introduction PACS 311 Doing Development: Issues of Justice and Peace offers a unique, valuable learning experience from the educational content to the course structure and student involvement. Exploring topics through readings and presentations was effective throughout the term, however the unique learning aspect that PACS 311 also offers includes additional learning experiences through class discussion and group presentations. The valuable classroom experience allowed students to share and…

In times of conflict throughout human history genuine calls for peace have erupted in many areas around the world. In the case of the Commission, the misconceptions, outcry for nationalism, and other Balkan conflicts in the area directed their desires in establishing unity and peace. Especially, since the peace movements of this time in America and Europe felt sympathy for Balkan Slavs. In their eyes, knowledge of conflicts in the associated areas was highly important for this commission in…

Wars are cruel. No matter how many conflicts are presented in the society, it’s still better to not start a war. War has been always considered the worst solution for any problem, because it has many bad effects on individuals and the society without solving the problem itself. In the short story “Dangerland” by Oakland Ross, the cruelty of war causes the lack of morality. In the war zone, dishonesty becomes important in order to reach one’s goals. People there try to lie so many times so that…

It is argued that American involvement in the Vietnam War is not justifiable; they were engaged in the wrong war, at the wrong time in the wrong place. I consider this assessment to be fair and the arguments of Carl N. Degler, Jon Roper and Nigel Cawthrone and others will be discussed in support of this argument. This essay will also elaborate on why I understand this assessment to be fair together with reasons why the involvement of the Americans in the Vietnam War was unjustifiable. America’s…

“Naked use of force has accomplished more for the human race than other endeavor.” Societies wage wars for any number of reason but the scale and scope of conflict is determined by ultimate end state of the conflict. This endstate is tied to development of instrument ( the army), national will, and resources mobilization. Limited war is characterized by the restrained use of weapons and military options while Total war is a conflict of unlimited scope in which a belligerent engages in a…

People lose their lives for the love of the country, but the love of the country deserves to be spread in peace and not with machines and other weapons that man makes. The human being is capable of so much more than hate and war. The Just War shows the reasons to engage in war but Pacifism is the complete opposite. Pacifism has many different views but one thing…

(2009) say that elected leaders under the last term of a term-limit can diverge from the population’s interests and go to war. As stated earlier, the Democratic Peace Theory is a theory that believes democracies hesitate to engage in armed conflict with other democracies because of mutual democratic pacifism maintaining that the state of peace can easily be sustained between democratic nations. However, democracies can engaging in war through a coup, such as the coup in Venezuela when the…