Unmet Needs of Limited English Proficient Students in the United States
It is a common observation that national school systems are better able to meet the needs of some students than others — and that certain groups “fall through the cracks”. In US schools, drop-out rates for Spanish speaking students are disproportionately high, reinforcing economic and social divides between Latin American communities and the broader US population.
Peace educator Julia Brock investigates these trends and argues that US schools should prioritize the needs of students with limited proficiency in the English language.
Uniting Against Radicalism
Religious radicalism – among Muslims, Christians and Jews – is a serious threat to world peace: “People of all three divinely revealed religions must be told that they have a responsibility to be compassionate, patient, gentle, friendly, polite, and respectful. They have to be made aware that God forbids violence, aggression, and anything that harms innocent people.”
A Disaster Risk Reduction Policy for the Mount Cameroon Region
Every region and/or state needs to develop a framework to reduce risk associated with disasters or design methodologies for preventing disaster, especially with the wave of disaster spreading worldwide from natural hazards. Thus, appropriate and sustainable policy should be advocated and implemented as a way of ameliorating these unavoidable occurrences.
Mount Cameroon usually called the “Chariot of the gods” or commonly called Mount Fako, well known for its spate of eruptions. The paper shall analyze, through historic perspectives, developmental antecedents of residents and indigenous communities of the Mount Fako, to suggest the need of an effective disaster risk reduction policy for the region.
The Essence of Good Governance in Maintaining Sustainable Peace and Security in Cameroon
This paper aims at highlighting the shortcomings of institutions that do not uphold the principles of good governance in Cameroon and how they have led to a series of conflicts and uprising that nearly paralysed the country and threatened the peace and integrity of the nation.
Understanding Racist Hate Crimes in America
Researcher Mathew G. Ituma discusses the recent murder of Sikh worshippers at a temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin, as well as the racist attack on the Bontas family in the Reno Sparks Indian Colony or Nevada in an effort to understand the twisted subculture of racist hate crimes in the United Sates, particularly those carried out by white supremacists. With reference to a handful of economic and social theories, the author argues that beneath the irrationality and ignorance of racist crime are patterns of identity formation, frustration, economic inequality, poverty, and power.
True Olympism
The Summer Olympics are perhaps the greatest sporting spectacle of modern times, and as such, they illustrate both the best and the worst of what sport has become: greed and commercialization as well as personal inspiration and an affirmation of the importance of play. Mario Nishihara reflects on the 2008 games in Beijing and, without ignoring the negative points, explains why she believes we should take a positive approach to the London games.
Transitional justice: Embracing the complexities
Transitional Justice is a field of complexities and differing perspectives. Through analysis of truth commissions and amnesties as transitional justice solutions, Pamela Kovacs argues that embracing this complexity is necessary. Terminology like “victim-centred” and “justice” attempt to simplify and categorize behaviours and past injustices that are inherently complicated and perspective-driven.
Transitional Justice in Burundi: Expectations and ConcernsTransitional Justice in Burundi: Expectations and Concerns
Vital Nshimirimana discusses the transitional justice process as planned by the government of Burundi for 2012. He argues that issues including ongoing insecurity, human rights abuses, lack of dialogue and trust among social partners, as well as lack of rule of law will undermine the process.Vital Nshimirimana discusses the transitional justice process as planned by the government of Burundi for 2012. He argues that issues including ongoing insecurity, human rights abuses, lack of dialogue and trust among social partners, as well as lack of rule of law will undermine the process.
Transforming Systemic Inadequacy in International Peacebuilding
Since the end of the Cold War, the outbreak of new wars has generated an extensive need for international peacebuilding missions. Most of these peacebuilding missions, however, have proved to constitute operational and systemic failures (e.g. Rwanda, Tajikistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka). On top of that, owing to the current New World Order and its implied structural changes, the traditional conceptions of peacebuilding will provide even more inept responses for failed and fragile States. Through a bipartite structure, this paper exploits the underlying reasons for the failure of peacebuilding by categorizing it into three main models. As a response to this failure, Alexandra Dobra develops a new model, the Meta->Micro Evolutionary System, which aims to systemically improve the conduct of peacebuilding, through substantiating the existence of a self-sustained and mutually-alternating dyad. The Meta-Micro Evolutionary System codifies ex-ante the conduct of peacebuilding and therefore constitutes a prescriptive tool.
Towards a Legally Binding Arms Trade Treaty
Just ahead of the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty scheduled for July 2012, UPEACE graduate student Gerardo Alberto Arce dissects the objectives, obstacles and limitations of the process currently underway towards the establishment of a legally binding international Arms Trade Treaty.