National Peace Essay

“…for liberty and justice to all.” Those words mean more to us than we know. Without those words we would be living in a different society. A society in which we are scared of policemen instead of thinking they will allow you to feel safe. Where you can trust who is leading you and know that they are trying to do the best they can for everyone, and not just the people they confide in. A place where there is no war and that has discovered a small piece of peace itself. The United States has managed these standards and is now trying to help resolve conflicts in different countries that are being overrun by war, hostility and dictators. Throughout history there have been leaders that have complete control over anything and everything, who have managed “political control through terror” (Paddon), and innocent people have been slaughtered. When there are countries that are going through this and would like to transition out of their government and war and into peace there are certain things that countries should be able to do. These countries need to fight for what they believe in and what they want. This is what we want—what we need to change. Countries with a dictatorship do not have peace and need to reform their government so they may have that sustainable peace instead of war, genocide and dysfunctional security sectors. Rwanda, Africa has undergone several different transformations during the last 25 years and most of these changes were not for the better. The government has undergone a lot of changes and was a democracy in 1961, but that did not last long because in 1873 General Juvenal Jabyarimana overthrew the president and began what be his 20-year dictatorship. He was a Hutu, one of the three types of people that live there; the other two are the Tutsi and Twa people that subsist in this country. The Twa people only make up one percent of the population; the