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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Two historical things have happened recently which have been passed off as non entity because it hurt the business interest of the powerful nations. The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to form an International inquiry commission to investigate, ‘ “grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East…
By Bola A. Akinterinwa The word polemology, is the English translation for the French word polémologie, coined from the Greek words, polemos, meaning war, and from logos, meaning discourse or study. Polemology therefore simply means the study, or more precisely, the science of war. A French school of thought has differentiated between a crisis and a conflict in a study of all the wars since the 1770s. The fundamental difference between crisis and conflict is that a crisis is the beginning of a conflict in the continuum of violence. A crisis is first a dispute that is managed by diplomatic me...
This past week we celebrated Yom Yerushalayim, marking the 54th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification. Yom Yerushalayim usually falls out before or after we read Parshat Bamidbar which opens with a census, a counting of the Jewish people. I always wondered whether there was some kind of connection, some thematic link, between the day we celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem in modernity and the counting of the Jewish people in the wilderness. Given the barrage of rocket attacks to which Israel has been subject this week, we could use some words of comfort and spiritual healing....
Posted on March 2nd, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS SWRD Bandaranaike made an impact on the international scene and brought honor and recognition to his country, said VLB Mendis. His untimely death two years after assuming office, deprived the country of an astute leader who could have played a major role in international affairs said Bandu de Silva. Bandaranaike first made an impact in India. SWRD led the Sri Lanka delegation to the Asian Regional Conference held in New Delhi in 1947. SWRD’S proposal for a setting up Asian Secretariat was accepted. His contrib...
The thin blue line The initiator and overseer of the UN’s peacekeeping operations was 101 W HEN HE CAME to, Brian Urquhart found himself lying on the floor of a truck full of drug-high commandos. His nose was broken and streaming blood, and he was bruised from a thorough pummelling with rifle butts. Much of his clothing seemed to be missing. Every so often, one of the boots around him would administer a kick. He seized the nearest; it happened to belong to the squad commander, and they fell to arguing. In the state he was, he was not as impressive a disputant as he would have wished.