Peace Keepers: Trivial Anecdotes That Matters

Betrayal, one of the most horrible things you could do to anyone your family, a friend anyone. To me it’s one of my all time most hated things a person could do and it’s almost unforgivable. In this book A Separate Peace by John Knowles two boys Phineas and Gene who are best friends at a boarding school in New Hampshire experience some of the worst kinds of Betrayal you could think of. Gene commits a very bad betrayal when he jousts the tree limb they are both standing on ending up with Finny falling and badly breaking his leg. This was no accident because Gene can’t stand the guilt.

Considering the UN’s recent failures to facilitate peace in Africa, more care should have gone into assigning leadership roles. While Dallaire came across as a passionate and enthusiastic leader, he admitted he lacked experience and had no prior knowledge on the history of Rwandan cultural or its ethnic conflicts. Even as Dallaire set up his campaign in a rundown hotel in Kigal the peace agreement was being undermined. His arrival was marked by a slew of riots and assassinations, all of which were tests of his ability to maintain the peace. It soon became apparent to Dallaire and Hutu extremist than the UN was ill prepared to handle the peace keeping mission at hand.

Students explore the experiences of people of Southern Sudan during and after the Second Sudanese Civil War.

The UN and the US government are accredited for deploring conflict situations as well as contributing humanitarian aid, and this is what these two organizations did in Rwanda and Darfur. However, the UN did not do anything to punish or prevent the genocides that took place in these two countries. The US government promised to support the peace talk’s agreement in Darfur and hold the perpetrators accountable for their acts. It never kept that promise since nothing has been done. So far, the UN’s Security Council has also failed in its peace keeping mission effeorts, and is instead pressuring Sudan with words only. No solid steps have been made to bring the wrong doers into justice (Shapiro).

The civil war ended and it was soon the beginning of many hardships. “The Problems of Peacemaking” discusses all of the problems with the Northerners and Southerners becoming peaceful after the war. President Abraham Lincoln did many things to try to get peace after the war. When he realized it wasn’t going to be easy, he decided that a “Reconstruction Plan” could maybe help them get peace. After the civil war the South didn’t have many things left because everything they had was destroyed almost completely. People living in the south wanted to regain it back but they soon realized it wasn’t that easy to do. The white southerners lost some land and their slaves but that was nothing compared to the black southerners. Black southerners lost everything when they left to get freedom, besides a little bit of clothing and a few possessions they took with them. Blacks and whites had completely different meanings of freedom. The whites wanted to control what they did without the government’s input, and the blacks wanted to get freedom from the whites. The whites wanted white supremacy which is, they wanted to be more superior. The blacks just wanted to be control and own things such as land. General William Sherman’s “Special Field Order No. 15” helped give 400,000 acres of land to 40,000 freed slaves. Other methods were produced to help slaves get land, one of the most famous was the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Freedmen’s Bureau gave slaves food, health care, clothing, and education. The whites of course, disagreed with the Bureau and would have disputes about it. The disputes were all settled by the Freedmen’s Bureau. General Howard created the “Circular 13” which helped lease 40 acre plots to slaves and hoped to later sell it to them. He also made the Southern Homestead Act that made 46 million acres for sell to slaves in many states. It was later repealed because people thought slaves were taking advantage of it. Republicans had say in what happened during the reconstruction. The conservatives and radicals disagreed on their views. The radicals were more harsh. All the conservatives said was that the south should just take what was happening and do nothing about it. The radicals wanted to take away some rights from a

Ever since the start of the civil war (December 2013) in South Sudan, tensions have been running high between two opposing groups. Those who support the President, Salva Kiir, and those who support his fired deputy, Rick Machar. This conflict has caused food shortages and disease for many people. The one thing the parties have in common is the brutal violence especially towards women. According to the article,

When the present generation is asked about World War II, minds automatically go to Hitler, the Nazis and possibly one of the many semi-terrible movies “based” on true events. This generation is completely unattached to the naive soldiers who fought against the now notorious Hitler and Nazis. The horror the youth of the time faced is completely unimaginable, except when told through a realistic story highlighting the emotional trauma the young boys endured. A Separate Peace by John Knowles highlights the multiple meanings of a separate peace, symbolized by the setting, characters, and plot elements within the story showing the true trauma of growing up in a war-torn country.

Next, the Sudanese government violates article #3 by supplying the Janjaweed military regime with military power and covering up military crimes. The government of Sudan has interfered with anyone who has tried to stop the Janjaweed regime. Along with this they have covered up or attempt to cover up the military investigation against the Janjaweed government. Since these acts of violence have been allowed to go on a total of 400,000 Darfurian innocent civilians have been killed, (“Facts on Darfur” NP).The United Nations along with the ICC are acting out against this, on March 4, 2009 had a warrant for the arrest of Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir.  Finally, the Darfur has violated the right to life of article #3 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. The people of Darfur of unarmed and are up agianst a government backed military regime. This has caused much unrest for the people, and lives are being infringed upon. People are being slaughtered daily by a ruthless regime, without ever having a chance to live life.

Creating relations between races and ethnicity's has always been vital to the success of the world. The United States and the international community have been, more often than not, late to stop violent acts against humanity. It took decades after the United Nations was created, and after a horrendous genocide in Rwanda, for the International Criminal Court to be created. Despite these two establishments created for international peace and security, crimes against humans rights are still occurring.When human rights are being violated, it is necessary for the U.S. and its allies to intervene in ethnic conflicts. While others may say humanitarian intervention goes against a state’s sovereign authority,it is necessary to protect

Having Judi Addelston come and talk about her class, “The Psychology of Peace,” was really impacting and inspirational. Ms. Addelston introduced her class by going over the overview and subjects discussed throughout the semester. The goal of this class is to study the causes of violence as well as solutions to peace. When studying the Psychology of Peace it is key to study the three roots of social, personality, and humanistic psychology. If we can study the three roots of peace psychology maybe we can get a better grasp of what peace means and the steps we should take to promote it.

The theme of the book Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace is peace, since the book is talking about the good thing that is probably happening around the world The book is describing what good things might other people are doing around the world. This is happening all over the world, at any day, at any time. All people are doing different things, some might be reading, writing, playing, sleeping, or having parties. There are a lot of things happening in the world, not only good things, but some people is probably doing something that is not appropriate.

“What do you think about sending in peacekeeper team two, they have proven themselves capable in every simulation we have provided sir.” I looked over the profiles on my holoscreen and responded “ We could do that but I think we need a more subtle plan as team two is very…loud and rash in operations such as this. If you could come up with several more options within the next rotation, I would appreciate deeply” “Of course, is there anything else Mr. Adams” “No that will be all.” My assistant bowed in response then swiftly walked out. Now that I was alone as I could be I needed to plan what need to happen if I planned to move up from just district head. If I brought in Alice my chances of success

The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that 250,000 IDP’s are displaced because of the conflict in South Sudan. Lizabeth Paulat, a member of Truthout, a think tank, writes that the violence is directly causing a potentially massive famine within the region. “This threat of starvation is not occurring because of a natural scarcity, or even a political attempt to starve out opponents,” says Paulat, “rather, this is an issue of South Sudan’s internal refugees, forced to flee their homes to escape violence.” With such a high volume of IDP’s and a projected record breaking famine, the international community must intervene to assist President Kiir and the South Sudanese Government.

The government of Sudan, a country in Northeast Africa, is committing a horrendous crime against humanity. Genocide is raging on in Western Sudan against poor, helpless, innocent people. It is actually the ten year “anniversary” since the beginning of the Darfur conflict and the genocide still continues on. There are over 1.4 million people who still do not have homes to come back to, and the numbers stack higher every day. Bombings have not stopped, as there was one as recent as February 2013. The Darfur conflict in the beginning was just a brewing disaster and it eventually led to the horrendous genocides in the early 2000s due to early settlement disputes, climate change, and radical Islamic

The origin of the war between these two regions goes back to the 1950s when the country, which was previously two separate nations, was made one after World War II by the west. Shortly after this union, Sudan was emancipated from England. 1983 marks the beginning of the violent relations between the North and South Sudan. The initiation of this conflict was brought forth by the Islamic Sudanese of the North, invading with military force the Southern Sudanese Christians . From 1983, it is estimated that at least two million people have been killed in the violent duration of this genocide, most of whom are of the Christian faith and lead non-violent civilian lives. Attention on human trafficking was brought into the international community’s scope with close proximity to the beginning of the violence as two professors from the University of Khartoum shed light on the subject. Ushari Ahmad Mahumud and Suleyman Ali Baldo learned about the genocide and enslavement being practiced on the Dinka people, a tribal group in the southern Sudan, and upon this discovery they dicided to investigate it further. What they found was that raiders from the north were killing the Southern Christian men and kidnapping the women and children to be sold into slavery. The most disturbing part of this discovery was the newfound knowledge that this had been going on for over two years. Professors Mahumud and Baldo