The Pros And Cons Of The Geneva Conference

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.

Head of European governments were seeking to establish a long-lasting peace and stability on the continent after the defeat of Napoleon. A series of meetings in Vienna, known as the Congress of Vienna, were called to set up policies to achieve this goal. The Congress of Vienna was scheduled to last four weeks however, it went on for eight months. There were many positive outcomes from this but also some negatives. Metternich had three goals at the Congress of Vienna. He wanted to prevent future French aggression by surrounding France with strong countries. Also, he wanted to restore a balance of power, so that no country would be a threat to others. Lastly, he wanted to restore Europe’s royal families to the thrones they had held before Napoleon’s conquests. The congress set up the Congress System to settle disputes between European countries through diplomacy and negotiation instead of way.

Case Study 2: A Review of Comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the Conditions of Peace (October 1919)

World War II prompted U.S. leaders to pay greater attention to the oil resources of the Persian Gulf region, because in order to maintain its status as one of the global elites in oil in the case of a domestic shortage, the United States needed to secure an available foreign oil source during the war.

Many historians continue to argue about president Woodrow Wilson’s success at the Paris Peace Conference, however the conference is regarded as one of Wilson’s biggest failures during his days. The Paris Peace Conference’s main goal was to establish the terms of peace after World War One. Moreover France and Britain which are known as the dominant powers of the Triple Entente, were seeking revenge and wanted to make Germany suffer after their glorious victory against the Triple Alliance. On the other hand president Woodrow Wilson was looking to “make the world safe for democracy (1).” President Woodrow Wilson outlined what he wanted in his famous fourteen points. His polices led to economic instability in addition to “ he invaded a number of

The Big Four: And Others of the Peace Conference, by Robert Lansing offers a firsthand perspective on what occurred during the Peace talks following the First World War. Robert Lansing primarily concentrates on the four biggest players during the Peace talks, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, and Vittorio E. Orlando. Lansing’s report of these four men compromised three fourths of the entire book, leaving the rest of the book to the representatives of other States, such as Eleftherios Venizelos, Emir Feisul, Louis Botha, and Ignace Jan Paderewski. One of the most significant features of this book is that it offers a different perspective of the Peace talks because it is a look at how people viewed these Statesmen and their actions at that time.

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, who was by then, 1985, head of National Security Council, was among the people who contributed greatly to shift from the initial plan of trading firearms for the discharge of the hostages to selling firearms for the relief of the hostages. In his defense, the Lieutenant argued that the fee collected from the sale of firearms would assist fund various projects such as Contras in Nicaragua, anti-communist rebels and

Mobutu joined the Nationale Congolese Movement (MNC), while Patrice Lumumba was still the head of the organization. Mobutu gained a name for himself when “he represented the MNC at the Brussels Round Table Conference, which had been called to discuss the Congo’s independence” (Mobutu Sese Seko”). Mobutu was on the same side as Lumumba, which was to get independence for Congo. Congo gained independence on June 30, 1960. Lumumba and Prime Minister Joseph Kasavubu were appointed as the nation’s leaders. Patrice Lumumba trusted Mobutu and he appointed him the Secretary of State for National Defense (“Mobutu Sese Seko”). Lumumba and Kasavubu were both struggling to share the power of the Congo together. Mobutu had the power of the army and he backed up Kasabuvu because he did not appreciate that Lumumba asked the Soviet Union for help. When the army mutinied against Lumumba and Kasavubu, Mobutu acquired help from the United States to go around the Congo and rally troops to overthrow the government. The United States helped Mobutu because they disliked Lumumba because he was considered a “communist”. Soon Mobutu orchestrated a coup against President Kasavubu and Mobutu declared himself president. Mobutu’s every action was worshiped, “and the government officially referred to him as “Messiah” (“Mobutu Sese Seko”). Mobutu created

The war in Darfur materialized at the wrong time for the United States, Norway, and Britain, two of which are permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. At the time, they were focused on ensuring the success of the Naivasha negotiations in Sudan. The Naivasha agreement, also known as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was an permanent ceasefire agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/ Sudan People’s Liberation Army to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. This was long time coming because the conflict had started all the way back in 1983. The Security Council used the ‘Brahimi principal,’ which states “regional organizations take primary responsibility for the problems in their backyard” to push responsibility on to the A.U. The Brahimi principle The Security Council was glad to give someone else the responsibility of Darfur so they could focus on others tasks at hand.

The newly independent Congo was only two weeks old when Moise Tshembe declared the city of Katanga a separate nation. This decision had affected both countries mainly because of how wealthy and desired Katanga’s land was. Because of the city’s copper belt and profitable mining operation, when it succeeded the Belgians, French, and British rushed to support it in hopes to take advantage of its valuable land. The countries even took stabs at manipulating the unexperienced, tribal leader. Even though this was against U.N. rules, the countries placed mercenaries in katanga’s army. Back in the Congo, this was bad news for Patrice Lumumba. He soon appealed to the U.N. for weapons and soldiers to end the secession. The U.N. at first refused and deemed

The US referred to Resolution 242 when speaking of a peace process and a viable option to a unanimous agreement in the region, all the while keeping Israel-Palestine interaction and diplomacy under its control. It assured that it was a medium for communication between the two peoples, while at the same time backing Israel's major moves in Arab countries. Requirements in international law such as the agreements made at the Geneva Conventions, which required Israel to protect civilians of the occupied territory and illegalize the settling of Israeli nationals into occupied land, as well as pre-existing UN Resolutions were largely ignored to accommodate for the American sponsored equal opportunity peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians

The Yalta conference was very essential to post-war Germany. Germany was in a war that they knew they couldn't win so Stalin, FDR, and Churchhill came together for the second time and made plans on how to deal with them after they lost the war. Stalin lied about free elections which made him untrustworthy of many of his promises that he made throughout the

He also wanted to bring the Boers and the British together on this northern policy. The ideas were in good intension because Kruger’s obstinacy isolate the cape Dutch. The isolation was to secure and ensure the commercial traffic did not have reached the Transvaal via the cape colony, Kruger had built a railway to Delagoa Bay. In 1894 he closed all the roads to prevent transportations of the Vaal River to prevent the transport of goods by wagon. Rhodes went to Transvaal’s biggest city and protest, without a success. President Kruger heard Rhode’s grievances after a declarations from Rhode’s lawyer, who was in the London Convention, with coupled with a threat by Joseph Chamberlain, who later became British secretary in 1895, to encourage a military

‘To what extent did the choice of nation-building and reconciliation help South Africa avoid a pending civil war from 1990-1994’

Civil war in Assadistan amongst the Wadi and Hadi tribe has caused political and humanitarian turmoil to emerge. A great amount of lives have been lost of the inferior tribe, the Hadi. State power and taking advantage of such position has resulted also in unequal governance in Assadistan. This report will critically advise the President of South Africa as to whether South Africa should or should not intervene in voting in favour of the resolution formulated by China and Russia. By doing so, the report will encounter a critical analysis implementing pros and cons which as a result, will allow South African government to make the correct choice