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all people, and the social and personal impoverishment that ac-companies the loss of diversity. In these places, politicized differences actively manifested into violent conflict at the hands of political entrepreneurs, between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo and then Arabs and Kurds in Iraq, as well as sectarian fault lines between Sunni and Shia. I also witnessed how the participants in communal violence could, at other times, live side by side as neighbors, even valuing each other's…

Critically examine the nature of sexual violence in contemporary conflict. Illustrate your answer with reference to at least one case study. Contemporary conflict can be viewed as a social process where two or more people seek to either threaten or destroy the opponent’s purpose, land, money or community. Despite progress in the modern world to defeat 'conflict ' and 'understand ' why it occurs, regression of particular states are still taking place. "20th century technology and bureaucratic…

Children squabbling over the last packet of Play-Doh. Presidential candidates debating over the possible ways to create jobs and a fruitful economy in the United States. Sons and daughters instigating a family feud during the loss of a parent over inheritances. What do these everyday situations have in common? Fighting. Since the dawn of recollection, humans have found confrontation to be the simplest way of solving a conflict. From cradle to the grave, contest and struggle are as integral to…

Paschalis M. Kitromilides explains about collective identity and ethnic loyalties in the Balkans in the late 1990s. Nationalism had generated violence and outrage in 20th century in the region of South-Eastern Europe. During 18th century, the Ottoman Empire established political and social unity in the Balkan region and it’s called Pax Ottomanica. The Ottoman Empire stabilized the external border of the Balkans, although the Ottoman Empire was declining due to increase of Christian population…

Most films of this genre follow these conventions. For example, the 2001, John Moore film Behind Enemy Lines, during the final stages of the Bosnian War in 1995, two naval flight officers discover the mass graves and order to be shot down my the Serbs. One of the men is killed and the other is trying to escape. All the meanwhile their commander is risking his career to organize an extraction mission to have the remaining solider pulled from…

When the Great War began, Woodrow Wilson declared complete neutrality for the United States. Due to America's mixed population, Wilson did not want to join since citizens would most likely take the sides of their home countries and engage in war on each other, causing even more racism and hostility towards immigrants. Some might wonder how America got involved then. There are many reasons why, but the most evident were the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram. Before the war,…

Alex Newman Literature Mrs.Gould 5-3-18 It is difficult to tell from Belgrade’s swanky new restaurants, that about a quarter of Serbs live at risk of poverty, according to World Bank and Serbian Statistical Office. The past thirty years have transformed Serbia from a relatively egalitarian society with a functioning social support network, to an increasingly stratified society where the benefits disproportionately flow towards the wealthy. This stratification is increasingly shaping…

To know the effects of WWI I’ll need to inform you about a few of the many causes that caused the Great War. On the twenty-eighth of June 1914 an Archduke by the name of Franz Ferdinand (Austrian) was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip and the two country’s from which they hail where already not in a good relationships so the assassination was just icing on the cake. Austria and Serbia both had powerful allies who were not ready for war and the allies had allies so it was as if…

The importance of nationalism and selfish ambition as causes of the World War One. There have been many discussions about the cause of World War One and how nationalism and selfish ambition of countries contributed to it. It can’t be denied that both nationalism in many European countries and their selfish ambitions played a large role in the outbreak of The Great War. Nationalism has more than one definitions: 1) an extreme form of patriotism marked by a feeling of superiority over other…

During mid 19th century in Germany after Adolf Hitler came into power13 billion numbers of innocent Jews were killed. They were taken to concentration camps set by the Nazi Germany ruling party. The main purpose of these champs was to starve the prisoners to death. Some of them were locked in the dangerous chambers of factories where there would be poisonous gas. Several Billion Jews were killed by imprisonment in these poisonous gas chambers. How a Human could become that cruel towards other…