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Let’s Revisit Peace in Cambodia
The world once more celebrated the United Nations International Day of Peace, marked as every year on 21st Sept. Yet the world is far from peace as civil wars, religious conflicts, growing insurgencies and the economic downturn bring ever more hardship to people in many countries. And Cambodia is no […]
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El resurgimiento del terrorismo en el Perú
Abstract: Many speeches have been given about the importance of people knowing their history, and the issue of armed conflict in Peru is no exception. Two thousand and twelve in particular has been a year in which the issue of terrorism and terrorist group Shining Path has strongly resurfaced. Citizenship […]
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When Ethnos Decides, Not Demos
When voters go to the voting booth they think which candidate offers the best program for education, the lowest taxes, the best pension system, the most reliable healthcare system, the economic policies that ensure low interest rates, safety in the streets, etc. We might assume that voters in Macedonia face […]
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Justice versus Jungle Justice in Nigeria
In my first year as a Mass Communication student at Ebonyi State University, I was terrorized by a course mate who started with wanting me to write up his essay for him. When I refused, he said if we were married I wouldn’t have refused him and so he was […]
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Si vis pacem, para bellum. ¿Es posible la paz en Colombia?
Abstract: War and peace are two opposite, yet complementary aspects of the complex human nature. One simply cannot exist without the other. There are many ways to understand peace, a very narrow conception of peace is peace as the absence of war, or the absence of violent armed confrontation. […]