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Fair and effective governance are crucial components to preventing civil strife within any modern society. Unfortunately, in most instances where gross negligence and misappropriation of government resources occurs, the sovereign state will typically lose its ability to effectively conduct policy at nearly every level of infrastructure. In the end, the Hoi Polloi are often the ones who bear the largest brunt of the instability generated by those who mismanaged a nation’s available resources. The…

He informs people about what has happened in Sierra Leone in regards to child soldiering. In the video, he recounts a time where he visited a Marine base in Virginia. There, he educated American soldiers on how to act/respond if they are to encounter child soldiers. He also recounted a time where he educated the Council on Foreign Relations about the child soldiering issue in Sierra Leone. "Sharing My Experience" What effect has sharing his experience (writing his…

Below ten percent of Sierra Leone's population has electricity (CIF)! This same issue affects a large portion of Earth's population and in turn, causes other issues. This issue is present in most poor countries and specifically Sierra Leone for a civil war. By having limited access to electricity, cooking food is tough, and communication is severely limited. Creating temporary solutions and inspiring larger ones can combat this problem. Kelvin Doe has helped make power in poor countries closer…

Power is defined as ‘the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way’. Foreign intervention is when nations, or organizations are able, or obliged to intervene in the affairs of another nation. Responsibility is defined as ‘the state or being accountable for something’, and means that a state must behave what is deemed as ‘morally right’. Why must ‘great power’ be wielded with ‘great responsibility’? If not done so, this power may have severe repercussions, and the potential…

A feminist perspective on conflict and war in Sierra Leone’s Eleven Year Civil War is useful because its sheds some light onto the hardships and struggles that both old and young women went through during certain times when war and conflict played a major role in their lives. A gendered view on war shows that during times of conflict most of the women take on roles of “male” and “female” when forced into combat. Women’s experiences in this war troubled country show to what extend women are…

dehumanized the enslaved humans forcefully making them dance, while others were forced to clean up the filth in the hold and then they were all forced into the hold again. (Blaufarb, )The slavers exerted their power over the Africans, the Krumen and Sierra Leoneans and forced all of them into slavery, putting them in a position of victimhood. The slavers sold the passengers of the Neirsée in French Guadaloupe. As they were being sold some took action to protect their identity by saying thinks…

Inhuman Traffick In 1791, the uprising of slaves in St. Dominque inspired similar movements all over the world. The United States fought Great Britain a second time for independence. In South America centuries and old colonial empires began to unravel in Spain. The Revolutionary war subsided in 1815 in Europe. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo helped prevent future outbreaks of revolution. Great Britain wanted to change after the war. In the 1780’s a powerful antislavery movement rose, which was…

the decade long Sierra Leone Civil War. At the age of only twelve, Beah’s village is attacked by militants and he is forced to flee with a group of his closest friends. Having no concept of war before this period, Ishmael is thrown into the fire and forced to either adapt or die. The boys understand that they can no longer go back to live in their ransacked village, and thus begins Beah’s inhuman odyssey. Among…

Ebola can have a fatality rate of up to ninety percent. In his novel, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston describes Ebola as, “a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.” The virus spreads through all bodily fluids, including blood, vomit, feces, saliva and sweat. Male patients who have recovered from the virus can even pass it on through their semen up to seven weeks after recovery (Elliot). The current outbreak in West Africa has…