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    the military, we are asked to commit to that possibility. There may come a day when we are asked to give our lives to save those of our fellow service men or women. Honorable Chief Petty Officer Peter Tomich was a native of Herzegovina, which is the southern region of Bosnia. He was born in 1913 as Petar Herceg. He was known affectionately by his family nickname, Tonic. In 1913, Honorable Chief Petty Officer Tomich immigrated to the United States. In 1917, Honorable Chief Petty Officer Tomich joined

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    Kathryn Bolkovac – whistle-blower; illegal conduct at UN mission in Bosnia Ethics and Public Values MADS 6604 V1 Abhishek Moadgil Aline Porcaro Harjot Kaur Harpreet Kaur Lovedeep Kaur Dhaliwal Instructor- Dr. Brenda Lyshaug 14th March 2016 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver Table of Contents Unethical conduct and the whistle-blower 3 Core ethical issues and values at stake 7 References 9 Unethical conduct and the whistle-blower Kathryn Bolkovac was a former police officer and

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    Bosnia is a country in southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bosnia is a very beautiful country full of many outdoor attractions; in the 1990’s, as I stated before, Bosnia was under attack and many of the residents left and fled Bosnia. Most of them left and left everything behind. The first Bosnian family settled in Bowling Green on Jan. 1, 1993, and since then

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    Mr Bozic Role

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    I have been known Mr. Bozic since 2005. Firstly, we worked together for the local government department of social affairs-Centre for Social Welfare (statutory practice) where I worked a Team Leader and he was employed as a social worker. We continued our joint collaboration through the Association “Zajedno” where Mr. Bozic was employed by our organisation as a Social Worker-Service Manager from November 2008 till September 2010. The Association is founded in 2006 by mental health service beneficiaries

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    Crime Of Genocide

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    The crime of genocide is a grave concern of the international community: its occurrence is not simply a phenomenon of the past, but one that has recurred in diverse parts of the world, including in recent times, with the shocking annihilation of hundreds of thousands and even millions of persons. Since my appointment as the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide in 2012, I have drawn attention to the fact that these events occurred as a result of identity-based

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    time I repeated these words in my head. Ever since I was a child, my idea of manhood meant aggressiveness and superiority, emotionless behavior, and refusing to show weaknesses. To put this thinking in perspective, I was born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina - a country with a very vivid gender binary

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    that lead up to the immediate cause of the war which was the assassination of Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand, this event is what sent the world into chaos. Nationalism played a large role in the lead up to world war one. The Slavic people in Bosnia and Herzegovina didn’t want to be part of Austria-Hungary, they wished to become part of Serbia. Nationalism causes citizens to be over confident and give them the sensation that their country is the only fair and righteous. This gave the country the confidence

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    Great Britain. Further out, Germany and Russia both had a great influence in public opinions and policies. Nationalism is independence for a specific country. A significant part of the inception of the war depended on the Slavic people in Bosnia and Herzegovina to at no time in the future be a piece of Austria Hungary yet rather be a piece of Serbia. Along these lines, Nationalism drove straight forward to the war. Be that as it may in a more broad manner, the Nationalism of the different nations

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    In terms of sheer numbers of lives lost or disrupted, World War I was one of the most destructive and devastating wars in history: an estimated 10 million military deaths and 20 million more crippled or severely wounded. Yet, what were all these deaths really worth? Was the Great War necessary or could it have been avoided? It is commonly, but not universally, accepted that World War I was inevitable. The underlying causes that led up to it made war seem imminent, but it certainly did not guarantee

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    that genocide in Tutsis would cure all the ethnic problems in Rwanda. When the genocide began, Tutsis couldn’t leave Rwanda as Hutus has closed the passages for entering and leaving Rwanda. In 1992 to 1995 over 100,000 civilians died during the Bosnia-Herzegovina. The war was caused by ancient ethnic hate speech from nationalist leaders in Serbia, causing thousands of deaths to Bosnian Muslims. During Kenya’s presidential election in 2007, the political parties divide because of ethnicity causing a wide

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