Soc 355: Minority Group Relations Somalia Presentation Paper When I walked into the presentation tonight I had no idea what to expect. I thought for a second it might be another presentation that just simply bores the audience with listing statistics of bullies in schools or dealing with discrimination that I would never come across or face. It was not though; the presentation was a real experience. In a sense‚ it could have been too real. Somalia is a country that is located on the far
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immoral ways to reach a goal‚ that goal becomes stigmatized by the ways used to reach it. Politician and philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli is known for coining the phrase‚ “Ends justifying the means” in his book The Prince. This quote leaves us with the question‚ “is it worth it to reach a goal no matter what you have to do to get there?” Machiavelli believed that wrong deeds can be justified simply by having a good purpose for those actions but his theory is flawed‚ because no matter the end goal one
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Means are more important than end This is a well- known proverb that we have heard many times. The ends are our goals and the means are the specific actions are take to achieve these goals. This proverb is often misleading as it gives the idea that we can achieve this goal through any means. I don’t think that the means is less important than the end. We all have so many goals to achieve. We also have our own ways of accomplishing it. Getting the desired result by any means is not at all correct
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questionable‚ but being that the ends are so positive‚ it would be futile to look at it otherwise. Plain and simple‚ the means are irrelevant if the ends are positive enough to trump them. Machiavelli defends these conclusions using both explicit and implicit language. Machiavelli states‚ “Therefore‚ a prince must not worry about the reproach of cruelty when it is a matter of keeping his subjects united and loyal…”. There he is using “the ends justify the means”. He’s saying that it is okay to
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and pushing Al-Shabab to the south of the country‚ it failed to end Islamic radicalism in Somalia; in fact‚ it was a primary factor in the ultra-radical turn of Al-Shabab‚ “transforming the group from a small‚ relatively unimportant part of a more moderate Islamic movement into the most powerful and radical armed faction in the country” . In 2009 Ethiopia withdrew its troops from Somalia‚ replaced by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) composed of thousands of Ugandan and Burundian peacekeeping
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Somalia crises A country where famine and murder is an everyday fact Content List Abstract......................................................................................................3 Presentation.............................................................................................3 Global Finland with (ICG International Crises Group)..........4 Foreign Affairs.....................................................................................4‚5 Comparison of
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Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia In December of 1992‚ the United States military landed in Somalia. The Somali civil war caused a famine that claimed the lives of three hundred thousand people and threatened the lives of two million more. As word of these gross human rights violations spread‚ the media and general public pressured the government into taking action in Somalia. Subsequently‚ with the United Nations’ consent‚ twenty-eight thousand soldiers were deployed to put an end to the mass starvation
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Child labor around the world has been slowly decreasing‚ but in Somalia it has been continuing to thrive‚ making it become one of the top countries with child laborers. From agriculture work to construction to even child soldiering‚ children are being forced into work over school completion. The families of these children are dealing with extreme poverty and are sometimes willing to give up their own children in order to earn money. Some of the children aren’t given up by their families but instead
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Introduction Somalia has been known for a country that is not developed and is unsafe to live in. However‚ what holds people together in the country is religion. I will discuss how paramount religion is to the individuals in the country and the values they hold as a society. Along with what ethnic groups are in the country of Somalia and how they revolve around societal issues. Religion Religion is a big part of their identity in Somalia. Islam is the primary religion in Somalia and almost 100%
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economy of socialism in Somalia‚ and it was mainly focused on the economic and political impact of socialism on the Somali state. As discussed in the introductory chapter‚ during the cold war‚ socialism had become an active promotion in Africa. Some African countries including Somalia had pursued an internal policies that have led to totalitarian rule. In the case of Somalia‚ Mohamed Siad Barre‚ seized the power in a military coup in 1969 and renamed the country the Somalia Democratic Republic that
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