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“Internal migration and the Inadequancy of municipality services in Izmir: The case of Asarlik” Erkin Sarı, Haluk Görgün, Mevra Kaya, Zeynep Kara Gediz University Introduction Human development depends on social, cultural and physical changes and these changes may impact us in positive or negative way. One of the most important changes in our environment are the ones related to migration (Gun et al., 2008). Human migration refers to movement of people from one country to another or…

The Government’s Failure to Facilitate Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda After the genocide of 1994, Rwanda had strict ethnic divides between the Hutus, Tutsis, and Twa. Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered, and the population was torn apart without much guidance to initiate the healing process. Despite implementing various legal and cultural efforts to help the country recover, the Rwandan government did not do enough to help said process; there are still societal divides…

The Israel Palestine conflict is not as complicated as people may think. The two nations have been fighting for many years. The objective of the war has always been for the possession of the greater territory. This war has been destroying and separating families from both sides. The area, Palestine, that both nations have been fighting for, is an area in the Middle East, bounded to the west by the Mediterranean, to the north by Lebanon, to the south by the Sinai Desert, and to the east by the…

AQIM is a North African affiliate of al-Qaida, which emerged from an armed Islamist insurgency founded in Algeria by Hassan Hattab in the 1990s. The group is primarily concerned with pursuing regional interests and imposing Sharia law in primarily Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. Al-Qaida’s connection to Algeria goes back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan, where many Algerian men travelled to fight with the mujahedeen under the leadership of Osama bin Laden against the Soviet Union. This…

8.Explanations 8.1. Rational Choice Theory Rational choice theory presumes that individuals make logical decisions from the choices available to them, which provides the greatest satisfaction and which are in their interest (Haycraft, 2013:13). Furthermore, rational choice theory assumes that an offender carries out a crime by evaluating what can be earned through committing the crime (Haycraft, 3013:13). Haycraft (2013:12) states that an individual might decide to commit a crime because the…

The 1970’s was a time where democracy in states increased almost exponentially. A wave of democracy was swept across countries and states, either repairing or destroying an already broken government system. “In 1974, nearly three-quarters of all countries were dictatorships; today, more than half are democracies” (Diamond). This growth in democracy is incomparable to any other time period, and is the largest humanity has ever seen. There has been much change to government systems since the 70’s.…

explore all the different languages at http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm. For additional introduction activities, see The Amnesty International Resource Notebooks -- Introducing Human Rights in the Middle School or Introducing Human Rights in the High School. To order the videos or Resource Notebooks, go to http://www.humanrightsandpeacestore.org. Please note: All italicized resources below are also available at the on-line…

in the Italian campaign; 5400 lost their lives * Battle of Britain, 1940 * The Blitz * the Battle of Britain was Germany`s first defeat—major victory for Britain—prevented Germany from launching a naval invasion against the island nation and had boosted the sagging morale of the British people * Dieppe * the Allies launched a series of quick raids on the English Channel * on August 19, 1942, the allies landed on the beaches of the French town of Dieppe …

reconciling the nation her number one priority, as she was then the command behind her sixteen year old son. She requested that all her opposition to Prempeh I meet in Kumase. She gave in to all three of their demands; the return of captured wives, the release of land that belonged to them and general amnesty be rewarded to them all. She had observed and understood the loss of lives the 4 year civil war had caused and was quick to set up policies that acted as a healing balm to the nation. As…