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Blair Peterson

Ebola - 5 things - IGGY - 0 views

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    Video with basics on the Virus
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Abbas: There's No Progress, It's Israel's Fault - Middle East - News - Arutz Sheva - 0 views

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      Over a nine month period, Kerry and Abbas met about 34 times.
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United Nations News Centre - There can be no military solution, Ban says as Israel laun... - 4 views

  • Ban Ki-moon today voiced his regret that Israel has launched a ground offensive against Gaza, despite calls for restraint, and stressed that there can be no military solution to the conflict which flared up over a week ago.
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      The UN is against Israel's actions because it believes that a military solution will not help and a peaceful solution is necessary.
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      He seems to believe that violence leads to more violence.
  • I urge Israel to do far more to stop civilian casualties. There can be no military solution to this conflict.
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  • Militants in Gaza have since stepped up rocket attacks against Israel, and Israeli airstrikes on the enclave intensified.
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      Each side increases its amount of violence in response to the other.
  • He voiced support for international efforts, led by Egypt, for a sustainable ceasefire, and expressed hope that today’s humanitarian pause can lead to a “more durable calm.”
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      He endorses peaceful negotiations. 
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    Ban Ki-moon Supports a Peaceful Solution
luizapinto

Israel is bombing Gaza? Support the Jews | JPost | Israel News - 0 views

  • Hamas does – firing rockets from holy places and civilian areas toward Israel.
  • “We support Israel’s actions in Gaza. The only language terrorists understand is that of force. We urge the EU to recognize this simple fact.”
  • Lithuanians don’t get notifications about a daily dosage of rocket attacks, and not only because the airraid sirens don’t actually work in Lithuania.
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  • Jews themselves are launching missiles at their own people
  • Do you have another suggestion for how to deal with terrorists in short term?
luizapinto

Israeli polls show overwhelming support for Gaza campaign | World news | theguardian.com - 0 views

  • 86% of Israeli Jews said they supported the war.
  • Fewer than 10% agreed that it was time to stop
  • "There is no pressure on people – this is authentic support. People think this is a just war."
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  • Israeli military casualties and rocket attacks, playing down Palestinian civilian deaths.
  • A supermarket employee was fired for expressing joy over the death of Israeli soldiers. A bank employee was sacked after writing grossly antisemitic remarks on Facebook.
Blair Peterson

Vision of Humanity - 2 views

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    Global Peace Index
Blair Peterson

Vision of Humanity - 4 views

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    Global Peace Index
Blair Peterson

Vision of Humanity - 1 views

  • These Pillars are: a well functioning government, a sound business environment, an equitable distribution of resources, an acceptance of the rights of others, good relations with neighbours, free flow of information, a high level of human capital, and low levels of corruption.
  • Negative peace is the absence of violence or the fear of violence; i
Blair Peterson

UN human rights chief criticises security council over global conflicts | World news | ... - 0 views

  • “These crises hammer home the full cost of the international community’s failure to prevent conflict,” Pillay said. “None of these crises erupted without warning.”
  • Pillay said Syria’s conflict “is metastasing outwards in an uncontrollable process whose eventual limits we cannot predict”. She also cited conflicts in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Congo, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza.
  • The resolution acknowledged that the United Nations has not always used the tools in its charter for preventing conflict. It prescribed several steps for improvement, focusing on addressing human rights violations earlier and recognizing that such abuses are often warning signs of looming conflicts.
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      What are the tools in the charter that can be used to prevent conflicts? Why have they decided to not use them in the past?
  • The resolution said little about the political differences that often paralyze the security council, where sharp divisions between veto-holding members Russia and the United States have often thwarted action on Syria and Ukraine.
  • “Short-term geopolitical considerations and national interest, narrowly defined, have repeatedly taken precedence over intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of and long-term threats to international peace and security,”
  • The human rights chief said the use of veto power on the security council “to stop action intended to prevent or defuse conflict is a short-term and ultimately counter-productive tactic”.
  • And she suggested building on the Arms Trade Treaty by requiring that, in countries where there are human rights concerns, governments accept a small human rights monitoring team as a condition of purchasing weapons.
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