2014-11-12
TODAY we will be welcoming Idris Ahmedi and Linda Åhre as quest speakers.
Today Idris Ahmedi speaks about Offshore Balancing as a strategy in warfare to achieve diplomatic goals. He's specialized within American foreign policy towards Iran and Iraq and has a Ph.D from Stockholm University in political Science. After the Second World War the European Union was founded to build up new welfare and commitment for collaboration in order for fascist rules never to occur again.
Idris talks about the background of the war in Iran and Iraq as a following scenario of the Gulf War which had effect on relations to Soviet and USA as the superpowers of the World.
The Oil has had historical impact on warfare and is repeatedly becoming a common denominator for territorial excesses and revolutions. Saddam urged the control of the entire Persian Gulf which pushed the UN and NATO to act. During the 70s when USA took a stand on Israels side in the Yum Kipphur War, the Middle Eastern countries responded with a massive oil embargo against the Western World through OPEC. After nine eleven George Bush claimed an invasion of Iraq to be necessary to strike down a nuclear armament which he used as a purpose to take control over the oil.
Idris gives an exciting explanation of democratic progress which the UN has accomplished based on his own experiences as an academician. The Students who come from different parts of the world show interest by asking critical questions to the Guest speaker. Most discussion is made of the UN’s urge to promote democracy as a shallow argument for a need of control. A very concrete example from an angle of ordinary life is medias role in warfare which is predominately western from newsfeed such as BBC, CNN and Bloomberg. Terrorist organizations like Al Quaida and ISIS have taken advantage of media as their strongest weapon to threaten people.
Our Second Guestspeaker Linda Åhre is an Officer at UNA for peace, security and disarmaments. This evening she talks about Responsibility to Protect from the perspective of homocides. The 90s was a dreadful decade which costed 800000 lives in Rwanda and more than 8000 lives in Srebrenica, Bosnia. The UN failed to solve peaceful resolution. In order for these deeds never to happen again the UNHCR and Human Rights Council made a lot of input on understanding psychological warfare. Amongst them was the process of dehumanization in African countries where children were forced to combat and women were assaulted through rapings. A lot of victims have told their memories which gave the African Union basis for developing Responsibility to Protect.
TODAY we will be welcoming Idris Ahmedi and Linda Åhre as quest speakers.
Today Idris Ahmedi speaks about Offshore Balancing as a strategy in warfare to achieve diplomatic goals. He's specialized within American foreign policy towards Iran and Iraq and has a Ph.D from Stockholm University in political Science. After the Second World War the European Union was founded to build up new welfare and commitment for collaboration in order for fascist rules never to occur again.
Idris talks about the background of the war in Iran and Iraq as a following scenario of the Gulf War which had effect on relations to Soviet and USA as the superpowers of the World.
The Oil has had historical impact on warfare and is repeatedly becoming a common denominator for territorial excesses and revolutions. Saddam urged the control of the entire Persian Gulf which pushed the UN and NATO to act. During the 70s when USA took a stand on Israels side in the Yum Kipphur War, the Middle Eastern countries responded with a massive oil embargo against the Western World through OPEC. After nine eleven George Bush claimed an invasion of Iraq to be necessary to strike down a nuclear armament which he used as a purpose to take control over the oil.
Idris gives an exciting explanation of democratic progress which the UN has accomplished based on his own experiences as an academician. The Students who come from different parts of the world show interest by asking critical questions to the Guest speaker. Most discussion is made of the UN’s urge to promote democracy as a shallow argument for a need of control. A very concrete example from an angle of ordinary life is medias role in warfare which is predominately western from newsfeed such as BBC, CNN and Bloomberg. Terrorist organizations like Al Quaida and ISIS have taken advantage of media as their strongest weapon to threaten people.
Our Second Guestspeaker Linda Åhre is an Officer at UNA for peace, security and disarmaments. This evening she talks about Responsibility to Protect from the perspective of homocides. The 90s was a dreadful decade which costed 800000 lives in Rwanda and more than 8000 lives in Srebrenica, Bosnia. The UN failed to solve peaceful resolution. In order for these deeds never to happen again the UNHCR and Human Rights Council made a lot of input on understanding psychological warfare. Amongst them was the process of dehumanization in African countries where children were forced to combat and women were assaulted through rapings. A lot of victims have told their memories which gave the African Union basis for developing Responsibility to Protect.