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The Processes of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding Around the World

A number one goal, for many countries is to have a peaceful society and harmoniouslyenvironment. In the last century, there had been a lot of wars, mainly because of showing who wants to be the most powerful country in the world, and also because of economical issues. Therefore, it exist some organizations that fight for peace all around the world.

Some countries, who promote this peaceful atmosphere, are: Costa Rica, Grenada,Liechtenstein, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands and Vatican City, among 8 more. This is as a reflection of a living without army, guns and a peaceful society could be done. Also, its kind ironic, because with all of the last wars, like 2003 invasion of Iraq, 2004War in North-West Pakistan, 2006 Lebanon War, Gaza War and more, the citizens of this peaceful countries, may have not seen a military guard, or a tank and couldn’t imagine that this its pretty normal in some other countries.Because all of killed people during wars, it’s that there exist a international organization which had a lot of power and it’s uncharged of aiming facilitating cooperation in international law, security, human rights, and achieving world peace. This organization its named United Nations (UN), this group helps injured people during war, civilians and obviously women and kids, claiming for peace and promoting the human rights. UN not only acts against war, also it’s involved with topics against genocide, protecting indigenous peoples, and helps also the Red Cross, in which they pact a declaration about this kind of protection with the people who need it.

Not only exist this huge organization named UN, there are also social movements who claim for peace all around the world, and also that believe that there could be non violent conflicts, in which peace should be present all time long. One of this movements in which in my opinion had a huge impact was 2003 invasion of Iraq, 2 years latter than 9/11, when former President Bush, said that they had knowledge that Iraq had had nuclear weapons, but as we all know they didn’t found anything and it’s supposed that they invaded only because of the oil.

As a conclusion, I think that we are very lucky to live in a country that had abolished military, that most of all haven’t seen a military group of soldiers marching among the street. Also we have to be very grateful with all the volunteers that help organizations like UN and/or peaceful movements because without them maybe consequences during World War I and World War II may had been different, and it would have changed a lot of things in the present that maybe these days wouldn’t have exist.

The impact of migration on receiving countries

Immigrants are the people who go from their country to another one, looking for job and a place where they can live in a better way than their own, or at least that’s the goal. Also, to immigrate is the entrance of a person to another country. They suffer because of lots of issues; some are for example, racism, legal problems and some more, but as well as they suffer a lot, there are some cases, in which they get along easily.

Immigrants, usually suffer because stay for much time that they should, in the cases in which they enter legally to the other country, and illegally it’s even worst, because they have to be hiding from police, people that could betrayed them. Because they are illegally, they receive the lowest salary, doing the jobs that no one would like to do.

Racism is one of the worst things that could happen to any immigrant. We cam see that it doesn’t matter the country this exists in almost every part in the world. In the US we can see it, a good example is the Mexicans who immigrate and in Europe, because of the European Union, their citizens are allowed to travel anywhere in there, and there are some countries that don’t like it. For example in these days, in Italy in a soccer game between Inter vs. Cagliari, a player named Eto’o which is a Cameroonian, suffer from lots of racist.

Examples of immigration, in America, the first one that we associate is Mexicans immigrating to the States, some years ago we heard the problem when past president of the United States, George W. Bush, began a project to built a wall so Mexicans won’t be able to pass. In Europe, because of the creation of the European Union, citizens are able to pass from every country. But also Africans immigrate to Europe, and some countries are really racist and this had become a problem.

I think that immigration it’s not a problem, because they will help the economy of other countries, hopping for a better life,but in the right way, legally. And also that they had to be conscious that where they are it’s not their country so they must help and not damaging where they are.

Ethnic Conflict

The idea of this essay is to describe the different reasons or aspects that generate this problem. Its important to start explaining why it happens, because everything has a beguining with no exception. Once the reasons are mentioned its easier for the reader to form a a solid idea of what it is and why it happens.

Throughout history man has proven himself to manifest a threatening nature with confronted by difference. Difference with regards to anything that causes him to feel outside his comfort zone. Just as a wild animal is more aggressive when any man, animal or thing threatens to alter his environment.

From this very nature, man has joined with others like him, to gain in numbers and fend anything that is different. Each group formed is an ethnicity. When these groups are in opposition over anything is called ethnic conflict. These conflicts can originate from territorial possession, intermarriages, religious differences or any other situation that makes a person feel uncomfortable, in danger or unprotected it is a basic instinct of survival.

Great examples of these ethnic conflicts can be mentioned next the arab-jew conflict, Muslims persecuting Christians, minorities emigrating to other countries or racist. These conflicts have proven on many occasions to lead to death this undistruction without solving or improving their situations.

From ethnic conflicts, we can conclude that man will never change this unfortunate circumstance unless he learns to better deal with the many differences life, through people and ideals, presents him throughout his existence. Lets open our minds to the many differences we will face in our lifetime.

Globalization of Infectious Diseases

Is important that people know the issue about this topic, especially because it became an unstoppable situation. This essay will try to explain why it happens and how it started.

Is essential to describe what globalization in general is before talking about this topic. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “the word Globalization was first employed in 1930, to denote a historic view of human experience in education. Also the United Nations say “Globalization is a widely used term that can be defined in a numerous of different ways”. As a consequence of this had made that a lot of countries loses their own identity. Thanks to this everything has turned into a unique global culture. This depends on each point of view, if it is a positive or a negative aspect. But what is undeniable is that infectious diseases become easier to get.

A lot of infectious diseases which are really dangerous to humans have spread easily thanks to globalization. Ancient civilizations like Inca, Maya, and Aztec were killed by diseases that Europeans brought during the Colony. Another disaster of this kind was the Black Death, which started in Asia and went to Europe and killed one third of Europe’s population, at least. Modern way of traveling allows more people to go around the world in a faster way. But this also opens the gates to a easier movement of diseases around the world. The most recent example was last years Swine Flu (AH1N1), which started in Mexico and spread around the world because of traveling. This had so much impact that it became a plague. Thanks to this examples its easy to appreciate how through time the regions that were affected had become more extended the quantity of population around the world.

During time, diseases had become even more powerful, the quantity of dead people has increase in numerous ways. But this also brings benefits to terrorism, when the twin towers disaster happened, terrorists started to send letters with anthrax, which os a disease created in a laboratory. These kinds of disease were easy to transport because of globalization.

As a conclusion, globalization has a lot of negative impact in the world. But for sure the hardest one is the easy way of getting infected of a deadly disease. It’s time to understand that is impossible to stop globalization but it’s possible to take some precautions measures.

Global warming

NEW YORK (AFP) – The 17 nations responsible for 80 percent ofcarbon emissions blamed for global warming will seek to unblock stalled climate negotiations this week but analysts expect little progress.

The two-day Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate kicks off Monday and will include top government envoys, including US special envoy for climate change Todd Stern.

US President Barack Obama launched the meetings to facilitate climate talks in the wake of last year's disappointing United Nations conference in Copenhagen.

The successor conference to the Copenhagen meet is set for this November in Cancun, Mexico.

"I don't think anyone is expecting any major announcement," said Michael Levi, an analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations.

"This is a working meeting... a lot of important players are at the same place at the same time" during the United Nations General Assembly, he told AFP.

Levi said the envoys would not seek to resolve the fierce debate over climate change but rather find ways to better define the issues, acknowledging the Cancun meeting would likely be another stalemate.

"No one is going to crack a big deal at this," he added.

Environmentalist Bill McKibben, co-founder of the environmental group 350.org, said the US Congress's failure to pass a law to combat climate change made it "very difficult" to clinch a strong agreement in Cancun.

"I think that the next two years will be a disappointing time in terms of actions and that we will have to use that time to build a powerful movement to get real action the next time there will be a political window that opens up," he added.

Levi warned that a period of uncertainty could follow the November mid-term legislative elections in which Republicans are poised to retake control of the House of Representatives from Obama's fellow Democrats and to increase their numbers in the Senate.

Last June, the House approved a bill that would launch the country's first nationwide "cap-and-trade" system that restricts carbon emissions blamed for global warming and allows trading in credits.

The Senate has yet to offer companion legislation, amid opposition from Republicans and Democrats from states dependent on the coal and hydrocarbon industries.

"Real change contradicts the business model of the fossil fuel industry," McKibben said, saying the industry was too powerful for Congress to effectively tackle reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. He urged more global action to create a "mass movement" in support of cutting emissions.

In October 2009, his 350.org organized a major day of political action, with 5,245 protests and other events across 181 countries.

Environment ministers from 45 countries are also scheduled to meet in Geneva in September at the invitation of the Swiss and Mexican governments.

And negotiators from the 194 signatories to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change are to meet in Tianjin, China for a final preparatory round of talks in October.

Next week's New York talks will include representatives from Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States.

Bibliography : http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100920/sc_afp/climatewarmingenvironmentpoliticsusun

letter

San Jose, Costa Rica

9/27/2010

To the activity organizer

First I want to say hello and thank you for the time it took you to prepare the exhibition at the University ULACIT on Thursday September 23. This is to make a few suggestions about the material that offers your exposure. First in my opinion you should change the title of the conference which has little to do with dentistry of the future. At first the presentation was more interesting but after a while you gave a lot of laps on the same ideas and that made it a bit boring. I also thought it could have gotten more exposure based on the material you had and thus, has lasted more than 40 minutes. The rest cost me interesting and informative, are just small things that could make the presentation a more interesting experience. So thank you for your time again.

Attentively:

Ronald Bonilla M.

ULACIT dentistry student.