Bellum iustum or the Just War Theory is a military ethics doctrine derived from Episcopal philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church. As studied today, the Just War Theory is considered hugely informed by the Christian understanding of the justifications of wars of invasion. In ethicist literature as in moral theology and policy making, the Just War Theory is associated with the belief that conflicts can be justified under certain philosophical, political and religious criteria. This paradigm dates
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In both preceding and more modern times, the concept of Nuclear Weaponry has often been depicted as a solely destructive force. While nuclear weapons have been used to win wars, establish power, and threaten civilizations, recently there has been a more positive viewpoint rather than just destruction. Since the original fabrication of the nuclear bomb in 1945, multiple organizations have collectively worked to innovate nuclear technology. In 1938, the German Physicists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann
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The Head of State or Government of he movement of the Non-Aligned countries met in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, from 24-25 February 2003 to address the crucial global issues affecting their people with the view of agreeing to a set of actions in the promotion of peace, security, justice, equality, democracy and development conducive for a multilateral system of relations based on principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of state. The right of people to self determination
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INTRODUCTION Foreign military involvement in Africa and indeed elsewhere around the globe is nothing new. As noted by Falola and Thomas (2014), between 1945 to1999 out of one hundred and fifty seven civil wars in the world, more than hundreds of them saw some level of external interventions. Since the era of colonialism ended, Africa has witnessed a great deal of foreign interference in both its economic and political settings. In recent times, there has been an upsurge in foreign military engagements
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after WWI due to inhumane acts during the war such as the mass killings, lootings, and burnings of towns known as the Rape of Belgium. They were also ostracized due to their direct influence of bringing Europe into the war. In 1948, both Germany and Japan were not invited to the London games. According to George Duncan (n.d.), the two countries attributed to the massacre of civilians such as the genocide of the Jews by the Nazi’s, and the mass killings, and slave labor of civilians by both countries
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action available. For example, on may 29,2003 president George W Bush reported, "we found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" he also reported, "we found biological laboratories". These false claims were the primary argument for a war that claimed the lives of about 5,000 coalition soldiers and nearly a half a million Iraqi's. (Associated press AP)(MSNBC)(CIA) report, “no weapons of mass destruction were found”. The only way for
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Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East Report of the Secretary-General 1. In its resolution 67/73, entitled “The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East”, the General Assembly: (a) Welcomed the conclusions on the Middle East of the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; (b) Reaffirmed the importance
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attacks set the stage for the Iraq war. After the events of September 11th, President Bush stated that the “U.S. will hunt down and punish terrorists” (Gilmore). In 2003, President Bush sent 300,000 soldiers to Iraq to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction. In seven years since, we have only reduced the number of
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Investigating the Complementary Polysemy of the Noun ‘Destruction' in an English to Arabic Parallel Corpus Hammouda Salhi University of Carthage, Tunisia hammouda_s@hotmail.com Abstract: This article investigates a topic at the interface between translation studies, lexical semantics and corpus linguistics. Its general aim is to show how translation studies could profit from the work done in both lexical semantics and corpus linguistics in an attempt to help ‘endear’ linguists to
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personal assets of those individuals directly involved in the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Yet today we are still at a loss for how to handle this issue. The U.S. has more than enough issues directly tied to Iran’s nuclear program. Their ultimate concern is nuclear proliferations, which means Iran is disbursing their nuclear weapons to different nations that are not recognized by the U.S. as nuclear weapons States which are identified by a Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. However
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