United Nations Development Programme

Introduction The event of 9/11 changed the way people viewed terrorism from 'an issue over there ' to the sudden realization that terrorist organizations now have the ability to attack globally and are no longer restricted to their region. Although national terrorism is not a new phenomenon given the Munich Olympic incident (Miller 1990, p.12) and several embassy bombings in the decade leading up to 9/11(Hoffman, 2002, p.305), it did directly lead to what we now call the Bush Doctrine. In short…

military provides necessary security to the Philippines. Meanwhile, the us army presence in the region has guaranteed the sovereignty of the nation. One of the critics of the President Duterte, is the increased threat of Chinses in the South China Sea and he demanded US reaction to the expansion of Chines in the region, but the US has not responded to his demand. There is no need of any force…

"Me to We" work against their own purpose either intentionally or inadvertently, for community development? Foreign aid to developing nations for decades has resulted in further dependence as oppose to independence as predicted by the forces instituting the aid. The “Me to We” charity’s educational program acts as a source of alleged development, however, despite its appearance of positive development it acts to exploit and subject’s impressionable natives to neocolonial principles. After…

defined as “the existence of rights that all human beings possess that even one’s own government cannot infringe on or deny and then can be protected by external elements, as through the United Nations.” There are 30 provisions in the Declaration of Human Rights that was passed on December 10th, 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. However, not many of these are seen as universal. Most of these provisions depend on state interpretation, which relies on culture, norms, beliefs, history,…

lot of material and perspectives regarding the role of aid from developed nations to developing nations. How the undeveloped nations need to look up to the developed ones and follow their lead, do exactly as they did. The common factor about this week’s readings is that every country needs to walk their own path towards development. Here, I would like to emphasize their own path. For instance, how each underdeveloped nation need the right amount of capital stock aid in order to get out of the…

Is World Government Possible or Desirable While surfing the net, reading e-books I found some ideas, some predictions, about the possibility of World Government. Authors who worked on this problem, published their ideas and argued the situation on their books. However, since todays world is not lead as one government, authors write their discussions such as "What if ?", because as I said, this is just a thought that one day may occur or not. My goal in this paper…

Responsibility to Protect (R2P), as described by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty’s (ICISS) 2001 report, the benefits of intervention outweigh the importance of sovereignty (Evans et al., 2001: 69). Therefore, the United Nations legitimising the R2P is an important first step to a more prosperous Africa.…

used to make atomic bombs. Belgium wanted to maintain control over Congo because of the riches their resources provided. The United States became concerned with Congo because its resources made it a valuable ally, but also made it dangerous as a potential enemy and Soviet ally. When Patrice Lumumba came to power, he was determined to make Congo a completely independent nation, and to use the country’s natural resources to make the country stronger. This angered the Belgians because they control…

It is important educators include children’s perspectives in their assessment of each child’s learning and development. This is shown through a sociocultural approach, suggesting learning and development enhances within social interactions who can guide and support children’s learning. Children construct their own knowledge, but in partnership with others who share understanding, the closer and more reciprocal relationships are has a greater influence on children’s understandings. For children…

There are many frequent exchanges in different countries. Globalization is the development of the world’s most important trends. Including political, economic and cultural and other aspects. This essay will analyse three positive aspects of globalization on Malaysia. This essay will use Malaysia to examine on impact of globalization from a political. Economic. Cultural perspective. Finally, this essay will collect my views about positive globalization of Malaysia. Globalization means increased…