... unscrupulous humanitarian organizations may be involved in fueling a conflict under the guise of "rendering humanitarian assistance"4. Private military and security companies fill the vacuum mainly left in three types of unstable situations: (i) in zones of low-intensity armed conflict (the new asymmetrical wars) where the armies are not fully deployed or in post conflict situations with a high level ... right to war (jus ad bellum) and in accordance with international customary law, the use of mercenaries (or private militia, vigilantes, paramilitaries, self-defense forces, etc) violate...

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... the Koran are. But how did Islamic fundamentalism begin? It all started in the 19th c. as a major counter response to the triomph of European colonialism. The Muslims had two different types of reactions: one of imitating and replicating the European customs and ways of governing (the Westernizers or the Islamic modernizers) and one of accepting the European political and educational models ... Ruhollah Khomeini, who, by establishing a theocracy, became the ruler of an established ideology "There is not a single topic of human life for which Islam has not provided instruction and establ...

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... lives by removing the intolerable weight of racism, poverty, discrimination, and psychological torture. Racism in all its horrific forms is transmitted across generations and is manifested in individual behaviors, institutional norms and practices, and cultural values and patterns. Racism serves simultaneously both to rationalize the hierarchical domination of one racial or ethnic group over other group(s), and maintain psychological, social, and ... same things, a women may not be attracted to a man because of his skin color or of his weight. And a man may also receive racism because o...

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... , there is not anarchy in the global system. Nations have to follow certain international rules, and while these can in many cases be ignored or bent, there are conventions and norms of behaviour that will usually not be tolerated by the world system. The most important of these is that nations are not allowed to invade and occupy other nations except ... on the international system, and this will only become more marked in the future. Earlier the increasing power of international movements such as Fulan Gong was mentioned. Why are these types of movement increasing in reach? In part it ...

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