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    In the 1990s the U.s got involved into many wars and conflicts that allowed for peace to prosper in the world.. This includes many brief wars and battles that america was included in order to keep their pacts that they had with other countries. These events will be explained within this essay. To start off we should talk about one of the most bloodiest wars that america wars in the 1990s. This was called the Kosovo war.In the koskos war many people died in fact this war the lives of eleven thousand

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    "ethnic cleansing". By 1993 the Bosnian Muslim government was besieged in the capital Sarajevo, surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces who controlled around 70% of Bosnia. In Central Bosnia, the mainly Muslim army was fighting a separate war against Bosnian Croats who wished to be part of a greater Croatia. The presence of United Nations peacekeepers was required to contain the situation. The idea from culminated in the Yugoslav Peace Conference,

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    Return To Rwanda Summary

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    from a purge like massacre. The Tutsis’ and Hutu’s were the aggressors in Rwanda with the Tutsis in control until the Rwandan President was gunned down in mid day. This event triggered the aggression between both of the groups. In Bosnia the Catholic Croats and Eastern Orthodox Serbs fought against each other after the death of pro- unionized demonstrators. These two main events triggered the beginning of the genocides. Both articles mentioned that the UN did not intervene to stop the genocides but

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    Samuel Huntington famously stated that the fiercest clashes have become battles between civilizations, according to him these clashes are neither ideological or economic, but rather cultural. Huntington couldn 't have been more mistaken. In reality, the modern world has become plagued with an increasing presence of intra-state wars as modern conflict has become synonymous with clashes between "individuals, groups, and communities that differ very little". Freud attempted to explain this perplexing

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    Throughout the years there has unfortunately been several instances of genocide and one of the most horrifying and tragic genocides was with the Nazi Holocaust that took place from 1938 until 1945. Another one of the horrifying genocides in history was the Bosnia-Herzegovina genocide that took place from 1992 until 1995. A genocide is essentially a systematic murder. Genocide is basically an attempted murder on individuals based on social or political reasons. Bosnia-Herzegovina was responsible for

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    This peace agreement established two semi-autonomous entities within Bosnia-Herzegovina: the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, inhabited primarily by Bosnia’s and Bosnian Croats, and the Republika Srpska (which includes Srebrenica), dominated by Serbs, both with their own political structures, economies, and educational systems, though by the End of the War, Roughly 100,000 People had Died. Refugees were guaranteed the right

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    The program called for autonomy and language rights but most importantly it asserted that Croats and Serbs were a single people. This display of unity alarmed ruling circles but had little practical impact at the time as Belgrade Serbs paid little attention to Croatian politics. The ethnic tensions that were present in Croatia in

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    According to Eller (2006, pp.237), Vejas Gabriel Liulevicious recorded in a lecture series “Utopia and Terror in the Twentieth Century” (2003) identified the following four elements of mass movement: a. The “masses”- Before any mass movement, there should be a mob of people who are the disappointed and frustrated group. The group is mostly made up of lower classes and typically urban who are in search of imagined or artificial community.’ b. Machinery- Mass movement are occurrences that require

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    The History of Bosnia

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    The history of Bosnia was full of violence, anger and war. Bosnia was once the epicenter of former Yugoslavia. The state of Bosnia dates back to the Second Century and was quite different from current Bosnia. Second Century Bosnia consisted of Latin speaking settlers from Roman Empire and they were also Christians. (History of Bosnia and Herzegovina). The first ruler of Bosnia, in the high middle ages, was Ban Boric. The second ruler was Ban Kulin and he ruled in the late 1100’s. Ban Kulin

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    Balkan War Research Paper

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    BACKGROUND. Raised in all wars in the world is difficult to understand the roots of conflicts, simplifying, the causes can be psychological, traditional or modern base. History is always present and is used as a motivating force, along with others, in almost every war there are economic reasons as secondary causes. In the Balkan War, it has historically been characterized by its high vulnerability to conflicts of low, medium and high intensity, especially because of the events that took place during

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