Peace process

Chapter VII requires the consent of the State to intervene. Since its creation, MONUSCO has achieved a great goal in helping the political negotiations in DRC. However, since the elections of 2006, the UN has been set aside from the negotiations process and thus could not take part anymore to the construction of the institutions, which was a primary goal of its mandate. To overcome this difficulty, the Intervention Brigade was authorized through Chapter VII of the Charter, that does not require

Democracy is considered as a peaceful entity and the world without war. American President Woodrow Wilson, for example, believes that “democracy is inherently peace desiring and consequently contributes to the world peace, replacing war-like political regime (Gat, 2006)”. Democracy is a system of government, consisted of four key elements. Firstly, it is a means of choosing the leaders of the citizens and replacing the government through an election. It is also called a representative democracy as

T By July 1992, the Khmer Rouge regime had taken a stance of “non-cooperation”, thus causing no PDK forces to be demobilized. Initially, the regime was on board for the disarmament process and agreed to allow UN forces to mark minefields and enter UN vehicles and troops into the area. However, once the process began and outside forces were to move in, the regime refused to allow the Dutch and Pakistani forces into the area. The situation was made more stressful by the PDK 's refusal, as demobilization

conveys each of these killings as “one mind less, one world less.” World peace would be an important goal to work towards. Many wanted to achieve world peace, however, there were many different visions for how this could be accomplished. Despite the many anti-war actions that occurred during the previous centuries, the twentieth century marks the conception of an organized approach to global peace. Advocates of world peace believed that with an ever increasing connected world, military advances,

another. But what is peacemaking? Peacemaking has been defined by many scholars and critics. For Douglas Noll, an expert in peacemaking and mediation specialized in difficult and intractable conflicts; he defined peacemaking as a complex concept as even peace can be defined in so many ways. But however he described peacemaking as a concept

solution in the form of international youth volunteers. A stark contrast to American stereotypes of using violence and warfare to achieve victory, the Peace Corps provided a unique way for young people looking to further the United States’ global position to avoid the bloodshed and gore of the battle field. By making peace instead of war, the Peace Corps made a lasting impression upon its members, America, and the world with its non-violent founding in the midst of global tension, its formation of

Since 2008, the global level of peacefulness has steadily declined. The most recent Global Peace Index report, which incorporates measures of negative and positive peace, reveals three causes for this deterioration : terrorist activity, the number of domestic and interstate armed conflict, and the intensity of the violence measured by the number of ensuing deaths as well as the number of internally displaced people. Consequences of conflict necessarily impact the environment and poverty and hunger

John Paul Lederach’s The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace goes could only have been written by someone who had spent many years in the field of conflict management. With its underlying focus of the essence of peacebuilding, it looks far beyond what one may learn in any textbook or seminar. While the first 8 chapters of the text are ripe with areas for further analysis, here I will focus only on theme, found in one chapter, in the interest of brevity. In chapter 2 of The Moral

with both Murphy and Lackeys’ perception about war and terrorism. In the article, Murphy believed that the process of reconciliation to resolve conflict within our societies or beyond is far better than bearing arms to resolve disputes. More so, in the article Murphy pointed out that some of the fundamental justification for her entire premises about reconciliation and it morality towards peace making. In addition to the above point, I also agree with Murphy’s argument that extrapolating the political

What does the word “peacekeeping” mean? People generally think of a specific person or organization who works for keeping the peace. In the International Affair, Marrack states “Peacekeeping is a technique which has been developed, mainly by the United Nations, to help control and resolve armed conflicts.” Professor Alan James traced the origin of peacekeeping back to its establishment in the 1920s. Officially, the first United Nations peacekeeping operation was United Nations Truce Supervision Organization