The Last Armed Conflict Of The Western Hemisphere

Throughout history, our world has constantly been bruised and battered by civil turmoil. Today, the civil war in Syria decimates the country; the Israeli and Palestinian conflict rages on; tens of thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan's ongoing civil war. It is not always easy to isolate what exactly ignites the flames of war, but, whenever possible, finding a workable, calm and satisfying solution to a potential uprising is preferable.

Throughout Argentina and as well other Central American countries during that of the late 1970’s, many were going through severe political upheaval. This political catastrophe coupled with various human rights violations pushed many people to the edge and out of their homeland. Economically drained and scared for their lives Argentines sought freedom and asylum within the United States. For many this was the start of something new in a foreign country with people that speak a foreign language. Courage and bravery those are two words that in my eyes describe an immigrant that has been forced to endure so much that they leave everything they had ever known.The Dirty War of Argentina caused families to be ripped apart and people to vanish as if they had never existed. This horrendous stretch in Argentine history showcased various human rights violations, corrupt leaders, United States backed coup, death and a need for reform in a country that was broken and dismayed.

Plan Colombia is a long-prevailing foreign aid package bestowed to the country of Colombia from the United States. This foreign aid package grants substantial financial assistance to Colombia, intending to fight the “War on Drugs” and to reduce the trafficking of narcoleptics, but there is a multitude of other factors and implications, both unintentional or indirect and intentional due to ulterior motives. To accomplish the goals of Plan Colombia, most of the aid has been provided in the form of armed forces. This situation is complicated because of the ongoing civil war between the government of Colombia and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People’s Army (FARC). Additionally making matters difficult has

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In Latin America, one of the most violent conflicts between the government and its people occurred during the Cold War. The government wanted to prove its authority, which led to the oppression of the people. In the United States, black citizens faced racism and death as they fought to gain equal rights. White citizens wanted to prevent this struggle for equality and continued to oppress and lynch anyone who tried to change the current system. Compared to the terrorism of the Latin American Dirty Wars, I argue that the history of the lynching of African Americans is the United State’s equivalent of the Dirty Wars due to the desire for compliance with the preferred political system. However, the basis for the United States’ version was race

Historically, the relations between U.S and Colombia have been marked the foreign policy and the international trade. Nevertheless, the civil war in Colombia have shifted this relation. In Colombia, the establishment of The Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) during the 1960s created the beginning of an era of terrorist and drug trafficking. The FARC began forming in 1966 inspired by the Cuban Revolution with a left-wing nationalism and Marxism-Leninism. FARC’s actions trough the history has been involved with terrorist against of the population in Colombia. As well, thousands of peasant farmers that have been obligated to produce illicit drugs in their own properties controlled by the guerrillas. Nowadays, the FARC has been the largest and oldest insurgent group in the Americas. The FARC has been roundly criticized for initiating

Even though there is talk of peace between the state and the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (known by its Spanish acronym, FARC)” (Maddiloni 2009) , the country’s largest insurgent group which halted the violence in 2016, FARC remains active, and many of the smaller groups that are off shoots and fragments still cause havoc in Columbian cities. This process faces many challenges, including widespread public concern that the peace deal offers too much leniency to offenders of violence. But the deal’s backers are hopeful that the early phases of demobilization, which are already underway, will lead to a sustainable

The approach proposed here is that the current Colombian war is radically different from La Violencia (The Violence) and is linked with declarations of war by the ELN , FARC and EPL in the mid sixties. However, when the National Front ended in 1974, these groups were in a very similar situation to that of its founding moments and lacked any significant power.

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My topic of World Peace began to develop as I felt the need to address the idea of World Peace. In addition, I selected this topic to confirm that the idea was impossible to achieve. Through a long period of research, I began to learn about World Peace. As I was studying the topic, I was lead to many websites and articles to support my claim, a possible way to achieve World peace was nonchalant. Scholarly articles, written news stories, and credible websites assisted me in learning more about the possible conflicts that can prevent this idea from becoming true. I learned how many of the

It works to create a positive peace through a transformation of conflict. In 1992, United Nations secretary General Boutros-Ghali released his report titled An Agenda for Peace. This document proposed peace building as “Action to identify and solidify peace in order to avoid relapse into conflict,” (Boutros-Ghali 11). While two sides are still in conflict, there is not a chance for communication between sides. Until violent conflict ceases, the two parties will continue to dehumanize one another and decrease the ability to understand one another. However, conflicts cannot always resolve themselves and outside intervention is sometimes needed to avoid a cycle of revenge, which can be a result. “The problem is a well-known bias in human perception, whereby we inflate the value of the wrongs we suffer, and minimize the value of those we ourselves inflict.” (Santa-Barbara 179). Luckily, there are nations such as Canada, with politicians like Lloyd Axworthy, who created the Canadian peace building initiative in 1996. “The initiative suggested a concern for the multidimensional and integrated causes of civil war and thus acknowledged the need to address the economic, social, and political aspects of reconstruction and reconciliation” (Keating 171).

In the question “Do you approve the decision of President Santos to open peace talks with the guerrilla?” 73 percent of respondents said yes and 26 percent said no; 1 percent said “do not know”. It is clear that in Colombia, after more than five decades of war, there is optimism about the possibility of ending the internal conflict by dialogues, but the main challenge is to raise the trust of colombians to the FARC. This Center National Consultancy poll was realized between October 2 and October 7, so it was influnced by the signing of the agreement of transitional justice on September 23 and the message of Pope Francis, who from Cuba called to promote peace talks. The efforts of the Presidential Palace are focused, in taking forward these talks, and definitely the instruction to all the government team is to teach around the country of these dialogues and the ending of the conflict benefits.

“Give War a Chance” is an article written by the American economist, historian and military strategist Edward Nicolae Luttwak in 1999, in the American magazine Foreign Affairs. It make an easily understandable “buzz”, since its main assumption is that most kind of peacekeeping or humanitarian operations are, in an objective point of view, a bad thing for the peace, and that it tends, paradoxically, to slower its establishment. We will analyze here the main hypothesis that Luttwak is developing among the article, the first one being the destruction of the legitimacy usually accorded to peacekeeping operations, led by the UN or by other military organizations, and the second one being the obstacle to a durable peace establishment, created

The United Nations, with its rigid moral and political limitations against force, has become a benchmark of peace and a social achievement of modern times. From war torn Europe, the United Nations developed from five major powers with an initial goal to prevent the spread of warfare through peaceful means and to establish and maintain fundamental human rights. Through the past fifty years, this organization has broadened its horizons with auxiliary organizations from peace keeping missions to humanitarian aid, to economic development. However, in a modern example of ethnic cleansing, the UN faces new a new role as a bystander as its power is bypassed by NATO forces. The UN, however, promises to be an

This paper aims to lay down the background of the East Timor conflict and explain how the lingering historical sources when added to the recent issues led to an environment where the national capacity and institutions of the country were demolished. While the history of the conflict is vast but here the conflict has been divided into two phases, i.e., 1999-2002 and 2006-2008. Furthermore, the peace-building efforts and security initiatives carried out by multiple Actors shall be critically examined. Peace-building is an umbrella term that constitutes of construction of security in every aspect. So, moving forward it is vital to point out the intersection between Peace-building, humanitarian, development and military approaches. The paper concluded by elaborating both the achievement and challenges faced by local, national and international actors in peace-building mechanisms.