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International Peace Building, 2004.
This paper analyzes an article that discusses the issue of international peace building.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, AU$ 69.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the article "A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis" by Doyle and Sambanis. The writer explains that this article provided a quantitative analysis of archival data to determine the correlations between peace building strategies and variables of hostility, local capacities, and international capacities. The writer discusses that the variables were operationally defined, based on theoretical assumptions, to represent data related to previous wars.
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"This article provided a quantitative analysis of archival data to determine the correlations between peace building strategies and variables of hostility, local capacities and international capacities. Thus, archival research was used for this study. This type of research was appropriate for the study since the variables were operationally defined, based on theoretical assumptions to represent data related to previous wars. Data collection procedures included the gathering of statistics related to the variables. The data ..."
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The Greatest Threat to International Peace and Stability, 2005.
An assessment of the power of the United States.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 103.95
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The paper argues that the USA is a threat to international peace and stability, despite its claim of the opposite. Due to its superior army and global economic supremacy the USA has become involved in matters that have not improved world peace. The paper looks at the 2003 invasion of Iraq to prove this theory.
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"The USA has the most powerful army that has ever existed, and it also enjoys global economic supremacy. It claims it is using this power to make the world a better place. For example, its ostensible purpose in invading Iraq in 2003 was to protect the world from the weapons of mass destruction that it claimed Iraq had, as well as to liberate Iraq from its dictatorial leader and enable democracy in the country. If everything that the USA claimed were true, the world would indeed be a very safe, peaceful place, as the world would be protected by a truly mighty power."
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Forum Theatre and Peace Building, 2008.
An outline of Forum Theatre, a useful tool for facilitating conflict transformation of people directly involved in conflict situations.
3,702 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 149.95
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This paper examines the specific theater-based strategy for achieving 'peace with justice' known as Forum Theater. The paper notes that world-wide there are various theater companies, political activists and community workers who have been using Forum Theater for at least thirty years. The paper discusses two particularly different attempts to use Forum Theater as a tool for conflict transformation and resolution, one in Nigeria and the other in Canada. The paper thus analyzes these events through the lens of J.P. Lederach's three peace building gaps: the interdependence gap, the justice gap and the process-structure gap.
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The Interdependence Gap
The Justice Gap
The Process-Structure Gap
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"It was due to its inability to bridge this interdependence gap that the Forum Theatre project in Vancouver, Canada failed. The projects goal was to submit the suggestions obtained in the performance to the local council such that new initiatives could be developed by the council to improve the situation for the vulnerable people in their community."
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Hindu Peace Building, 2005.
This paper explains the dangerous connection between religion and politics in India and examines the Hindutva ideology.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 103.95
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The paper begins by explaining the dangerous connection between religion and politics in India and the Hindutva movement's use of lower social groups in an anti-minority ideology. The paper discusses educated Hindus, NGOs and how different commissions are at work. The paper describes the new optimism with the Congress electoral victory of 2004, but also describes the more interesting work done by ordinary citizens to draw together diverse citizens, showing the emptiness of the Hindutva ideology and its incorrect view of minorities. The paper stresses Gandhism and Hinduism as forever changing entities.
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"In India, nationalism and social reform seem to have gone hand in hand to Independence in 1947 and beyond. Western education, Christian social thinking and political activism shaped much activity before the turn of the 20th century. Members of every community contributed strongly to the Indian nationalist movement, including secular-minded Muslims who opted to stay in a secular India, rather than migrate to the new Muslim state of Pakistan. However, the rise of communalism and Hindu chauvinism in the Republic of India, in the late 1980s and 1990s, created a situation of new divisions."
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A Building is Not Just a Building, 2003.
This essay critiques the J. Paul Getty Museum design with reference to two journal articles.
615 words (approx. 2.5 pages), 2 sources, AU$ 32.95
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This paper looks at the differing opinions with regards to the J. Paul Getty Museum and the way it was built. Reviews from the Los Angeles Times and the Atlanta Constitution Journal contend that a building is not just a building. The two critics from the above newspapers agree and disagree with regards to certain points about the building.
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"Ouroussoff writes in the Times:
"Of the two assessments, Ouroussoff?s seems by far the more accurate. From my own visit to the museum I must say that it seemed very much a premodern structure resting like a fortress on a hill from a time long, long before Frank Lloyd Wright would make so many people believe that glass was an acceptable material for walls and that white was the only color that one needed."
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A Building is not Just a Building, 2001.
Differing opinions on the J.Paul Getty Museum.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 34.95
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This paper looks at the differing opinions with regards to the J.Paul Getty Museum and the way it was built. Reviews from the Los Angeles Times and the Atlanta Constitution Journal contend that a building is not just a building. The two critics from the above newspapers agree and disagree with regards to certain points about the building.
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"Ouroussoff writes in the Times:
But although these public areas are thoughtfully balanced, the complex as a whole does not cohere. The more private structures (aside from the auditorium) seem isolated on the wrong side of the trackless-tramway. A palm-lined garden, submerged three stories below plaza level--is the area's central event. Around it, cloistered walkways and metal bridges connect the various buildings. Meier skewed placement of these buildings slightly to line them up with the freeway rambling by below. But the shift is imperceptible, and you never feel its weight. Instead, the buildings simply seem detached, their function hidden behind slick metal and glass facades (p. A1)"
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UN and Peace Maintenance, 2005.
Questions whether the UN has been successful in establishing and maintaining international peace and security. Uses examples of Rwanda and Iraq.
3,254 words (approx. 13.0 pages), 0 sources, APA, AU$ 136.95
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The writer of this paper argues that the United Nations, although having achieved minor accomplishments in the area of maintenance of peace and security, can, generally speaking, not be considered a successful international organization. Instead, the United Nations has failed on a number of times throughout the past to maintain international peace and security. These failures were in situations where peace and security were reasonable outcomes. So, therefore, the UN is obviously not working to the best of its ability. To argue this point, the paper begins with an extensive analysis of the United Nations and its failures in the maintenance of international peace and security through two specific case studies, Rwanda, and most recently, Iraq. It then discusses the limited successes of the UN and examines the possible reasons for its overall failure to address the maintenance of international peace and security adequately and consistently. Finally, the writer briefly proposes possible reforms that the UN could adopt in order for the organization to operate more effectively in the international environment.
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"The UN has many areas in which it could improve through reform. Due to the limited word count, I have chosen to not discuss this topic in too much depth. The areas of reform seem obvious from the problems I have mentioned previously. For the UN to succeed, the world community must match the demands made on the organisation by the resources given to it . Strong and sustained political support from Member States , rapid deployments of all peacekeeping and peacemaking troops with a robust force posture and sound peace-building strategies are all necessary in improving the UN. There have been a number of attempts at addressing the issue of reform. These include the Brahimi report, which was commissioned by the UN Secretary General to address the past weaknesses and failures of the UN with regard to peace and security and An Agenda for Peace, written by Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former Secretary General. Both reports recognised problems with the UN?s capacity to maintain world peace but many of the recommendations that were suggested were not implemented. In order for the UN to be successful in maintaining international peace and security, reforms have to not only be recognised, but also implemented."
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Obnoxious Negative Peace or Substantive and Positive Peace, 2005.
A look at two different perspectives of peace as understood and expressed by Martin Luther King.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper discusses obnoxious negative peace and substantive positive peace. These terms are found in a letter by Martin Luther King, Jr. expressing his opinion on direct action. Martin Luther King believed it was important to fight for substantive and positive peace for African Americans and it is important for Americans to continue to fight the battle for substantive and positive peace not only in America but throughout the world.
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (King 1963). What does this quotation mean? What is the difference obnoxious negative peace and substantive and positive peace? Why are these important today? These were important terms for Martin Luther King and they are important terms today. Martin Luther King believed that whatever affects one person actually affects every one else (King 1963). Many people living during the lifetime of Martin Luther King was willing to close their eyes to the violence and terrorism happening to African Americans. They believed that African Americans were wrong in taking a stand toward wanting their independence. Martin Luther King believed it was important to fight for substantive and positive peace for African Americans and it is important for Americans to continue to fight the battle for substantive and positive peace not only in America but throughout the world."
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International Institutions, 2005.
This paper discusses the value of international institution in an increasingly unipolar world.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 103.95
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This paper addresses the value of international institutions towards maintaining peace, international security and inter-state cooperation. The author examines the role that the United States plays in this new world order as the undisputed hegemon of the day. The paper explains the role of the European Union and the difficulties that exist in establishing international security and peace.
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Training for Peace Keeping, 2008.
A look at some of the training required to undertake peace and humanitarian operations.
3,695 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 9 sources, APA, AU$ 149.95
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Terrorism has become embedded in almost everyone's vocabulary, it is one of those terms, that not everyone knows what it means, but it seems to be surrounded with negative connotations. However, it is not surprising that terrorism is sometimes abetted with state sponsorship and is supported by many governments whether intrinsically or extrinsically. As such international peace-keeping efforts have to change focus and address these internal dynamics. This paper explores some of the necessary mandates that are needed by personnel dealing with these issues.
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Introduction
Basic Communication, Conflict Resolution, & Negotiation
Communication: The Essential Element of a Successful Training Program in a Peace-Keeping Environment
Conflict Resolution & Negotiation in a Peace Keeping Environment
Techniques of Motivation in a Diverse Peace-Keeping Environment
Individual Decision-Making and Group Behavior
Leadership Training For Supervisors in these Organizations
Conclusion
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"Conflict resolution and peace keeping has been an issue of controversy for many years. However, with the proper training mechanism and structure, then peace and humanitarian operations can be the champions of a successful organizational initiative. It is therefore imperative that there be a comprehensive discourse embedded in the training structure for these operations that can analyze elements of the foreign conflict resolution and negotiation strategies. The connection between an effective training program or structure with the overall success of conflict resolution and negotiations will depend primarily on how well the program identifies the necessary political, economic, and cultural realms that have been affected by the dimensions of the operations. Overall, it is clear that conflict resolution and negotiation policy training is reactive and preventative, since it would be devised to counter, and to prohibit actions that were seen as harmful to the peace initiatives."
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International Organization, 2002.
A look at the development of international organization from three perspectives.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 64.95
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This essay will look first at the League of Nations and the potential multipolar system that it offered, followed by an analysis of how this gave way to the reality of a bipolar, Cold War system divided between the United States and the U.S.S.R.. In this context, this essay will end with an examination of how a unipolar system for settling disputes and maintaining international peace and security has become instituted in the United Nations.
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Woodrow Wilson?s 14 Points and the Women's Peace Movement, 2003.
A comparative analysis of the principles of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points and the resolutions of the Women?s Peace Movement.
1,047 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 53.95
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The paper discusses how, in 1915, The Hague convention represented women from 22 different countries with the main focus of achieving peace. It examines how this process for peace was deemed feasible by a series of resolutions established by the Women?s Peace Congress and how these resolutions focused on many key ideas that the Women?s Peace Congress believed could create world peace. It demonstrates the irony of President Woodrow Wilson's refusal to lead the international mediation and how many of the principles established at the Women?s Peace Congress in The Hague, were echoed with the publication of Woodrow Wilson?s 14 Points, which earned him much international praise, three years later.
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"The principle for autonomy of nations is demonstrated in both the 14 points and the Resolutions adopted at Hague as well. The Women?s Peace Congress was much broader as they simply stated, ?autonomy and a democratic parliament should not be refused to any people (Addams, 3).? Wilson singled out the exact countries, ?the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development.? Wilson also requested the autonomy of the peoples of Austria Hungary, Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Poland. The Women?s Peace Congress simply expressed the belief that countries should be allowed autonomy, while Wilson?s 14 Points rather put them into play in the specific nations that he felt were most important."
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The Chrysler Building, 2004.
A description of the famous building in New York City called the Chrysler Building.
2,003 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 92.95
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This paper offers a look at the history and design of the famous Chrysler Building. The writer describes both the exterior and interior of the building, as well as the architectural structure. The paper then offers some information on the architect himself, William Van Alen, and the original deal that led to the purchase of the site and plans to build the building.
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"Architect William Van Alen originally designed the Chrysler Building for real estate speculator William H. Reynolds, but in 1928, Walter Percy Chrysler, head of the Chrysler Motor Corporation, purchased the site on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street in midtown Manhattan, as well as Van Alen's plans. (Sandler, 1996) Those plans were changed as the design began to reflect Chrysler's forceful personality. The project soon became caught up in the fixated quest for height that swept through the city's commercial architecture in the 1920s and 1930s. Buildings rose taller and taller as owners sought both to maximize office space as well as to increase consumer visibility. Van Alen's initial design anticipated a 925-foot building with a rounded, Byzantine or Moorish top. At the same time, however, Van Alen's former partner, H. Craig Severance, was building the 927-foot Bank of the Manhattan Company on Wall Street. Not to be outdone, Van Alen revised his plans, with Chrysler's blessing, to include a new tapering top that culminated in a spire, bringing the total height to 1,046 feet and establishing the Chrysler Building as the world's tallest, briefly anyway."
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Building on Landfill, 2002.
This paper discusses the issues of building multistory buildings on areas of landfill, areas of dumped discarded items such as debris and garbage, using Battery Park City, New York City as an example.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 64.95
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This paper reports that one way that builders are finding available land is by using places previously thought unsafe or unsuitable to build on, such as landfill sites. This paper explains that landfill sites can safely be used to build high-rise buildings, provided the density of the landfill, the size of the foundation pieces and the deepness of the foundation pilings are taken into consideration. The author points out that there have been no reported problems from the settling of the landfill site on which Battery Park City was built.
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"First, it is important to understand what landfills are and why they are here. Landfills are areas where the city or other municipality has dumped discarded items such as debris and garbage. The city often dumps large items there, as well, and eventually the landfill reaches its capacity. Landfills are important because debris and garbage has to go somewhere, but many people remain concerned that landfills are dangerous, and that hazardous materials are being dumped into landfills, which could harm people in the future. When someone decides to build on a landfill site, as the one in Battery Park City, the question of stability comes up. After all, they are essentially building on garbage and debris, which seems likely to shift and move as it settles."
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Improving Building Codes and Their Administration, 2001.
An examination into the trend towards the adoption of a single building code throughout the U.S.
19,203 words (approx. 76.8 pages), 34 sources, MLA, AU$ 363.95
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The regulation of building construction can be traced back 4,000 years to cultures such as the Chinese, Greek, and Roman empires. Building regulations arose from the attempts of our ancestors to establish ways to control or avoid devastation from building fires and construction failures. Today, there are a number of specific parameters that affect the cost of buildings, including government building codes, which are enacted to protect public health and safety; these can take the form of both prescriptive and performance requirements, as well as industry demands that may not be reflected in actual building codes themselves, which consist of such desirable factors as climate control, elevators, and other aesthetics. Based on the efficiencies provided by standardized codes, the trend toward adoption of such codes nationally and internationally would seem to be a prudent choice for builders and municipalities. This study examines what the three code-making bodies within the United States were doing, are doing, and how they are now working together to produce a common building code for the United States to improve the safety, aesthetics, and functionality of the building conditions required for the entire country. The hypothesis of this paper is that, as a result of this leadership and innovation in the United States, improvements in building codes will extend to the developing countries of the world.
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"Gene Fessenbecker, author of Building Codes and the Construction Contractor, says that, ?The regulation of building construction can be traced back 4,000 years to cultures such as the Chinese, Greek and Roman empires. Building regulations arose from the attempts of our ancestors to establish ways to control or avoid devastation from building fires and construction failures. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson tried to establish some of the earliest design and construction regulations in America for the purpose of protecting public health and safety? (Fessenbecker 1). Today, there are a number of specific parameters that affect the cost of buildings including government building codes, a which are enacted to protect public health and safety; these can take the form of both prescriptive and performance requirements, as well as industry demands which may not be reflected in actual building codes themselves which consist of such desirable factors as climate control, elevators and other aesthetics. This study is intended to examine what the three code-making bodies within the United States were doing, are doing and how they are now working together to produce a common Building Code for the United States to improve the safety, aesthetics, and functionability of the building conditions required for the entire country. The hypothesis of this paper will be that as a result of this leadership and innovation in the United States, improvements in building codes will extend to the developing countries of the world."
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Abbey National Building Society, 2005.
Explains what building societies are and gives a history of the Abbey National Building Society.
3,008 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 128.95
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This paper explains that a building society is a Financial Institution that is owned by all its members rather than by its shareholders which plays the role of paying interests on the deposits made by the members and also of lending money to its members by proposing to keep the property as security in order to enable them to buy a house of their own. The paper then details the history of the Abbey National Building Society from its beginnings in 1944 to the present day as well as what Abbey National Building Society has had to do to remain successful.
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"The market conditions at the time were very strict and regulated, and there was stiff competition everywhere. The 1986 occurrence of the 'Big Bang' served to break down all the traditional barriers that a person would expect in a Bank, and soon banks and other financial institutions became more capable of offering a wide range of financial services that hitherto had not been done. Abbey Building Society had at this time already demonstrated its free and independent thinking by breaking away from the Cartel of building societies that had insisted on certain fixed basic mortgage rates for everyone. Therefore when the decision to convert into a plc was taken in 1989, and after the conversion had actually taken place, there was a dramatic increase in the number of shareholders in the United Kingdom: the numbers rose from 6 million to 9.5 million, a 50% increase. (Conversion to plc, the Background)"
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