3 Essays

"NGOs and IGOs"

The Growing Power of Transnational Social Movements: The Cautionary Case of Darfur

The Growing Power of Transnational Social Movements: The Cautionary Case of Darfur

This paper looks to deconstruct the foundations, structure and impacts of the Save Darfur movement. Although the movement achieved some monumental successes, it also served to severely undermine peace efforts and reinforce African dependencies

Do IGOs Decrease the Possibility of Conflict?

Do IGOs Decrease the Possibility of Conflict?

Whether international institutions can promote and achieve a more peaceful world is a question that is being examined more and more in the study of international relations. Literature about this issue has further developed over the last 50 years, as the world has seen the rise of new international organizations and the integration of old ones.

Child Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

Child Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone

The systematic inclusion of children in the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission process was unprecedented in the history of truth and reconciliation initiatives. Given the country’s history of child involvement in the war as both victims and perpetrators, it was especially important to include children in the post-conflict peacebuilding processes.

Ethnic Conflict and R2P

Ethnic Conflict and R2P

We may all agree that there is a moral imperative to halt mass atrocities. The problem is the reconciliation of such an obligation and our entrenched system of anarchy at the international level. Those states that are part of the United Nations should have a responsibility to respect the adoption of R2P principles, notably the moral imperative to halt mass atrocities and punish the perpetrators through the ICC.

How the Visual Arts Can Further the Cause of Human Rights

How the Visual Arts Can Further the Cause of Human Rights

Because the scale and intensity of human rights violations remains high, the UN has already acknowledge the importance of investing in development projects that can create long-term change by educating future generations to be imaginative and thoughtful in their problem-solving capabilities. Ultimately, we must believe in the power of art to change lives.

21st Century ‘Resource Control’ Insurgencies: The Case of the Niger Delta

21st Century ‘Resource Control’ Insurgencies: The Case of the Niger Delta

Resources are strategically invaluable economic and political tools. It is the unquestionable human thirst for black gold, and other vital resources such as water and minerals, where global capitalism, post-colonial kleptocracy and the disenfranchised insurgent will meet in an unpredictable and volatile new paradigm.

NGOs in Haiti: Caught in an Aid Worker Bubble

NGOs in Haiti: Caught in an Aid Worker Bubble

Since the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the development sector has been engaged in debate concerning the failures of the NGO response. NGOs have destructively transplanted a parallel system of governance, often being caught up within an aid worker bubble which has stood between the Haitian state and its citizens and thus undermined the symbiotic nature of their social contract.

Community Based NGOs in Grassroots Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Community Based NGOs in Grassroots Peacebuilding and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has a long way to come before it can be labelled peaceful. The fragmented nature of its society indicates that we cannot speak of two monolithic communities at all. They are divided within themselves along attitudinal, class, and educational lines, while different experiences of the Troubles have shaped their needs.

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