Malaysia as a mediator
The peace dialogue between Malaysia and Thailand government was an important parts in achieve peace in Southern Thailand. Thus, the initiative dialogue has been reflect to the personal interest of Prime Minister Najib Razak, and it was led by semi-retired senior official by Datuk Seri Ahmad Zamzamin Hashim (McCargo, 2014). Zamzamin is the former director of the research division in the prime minister’s office, and he has an intelligence background in handling this such as this issues. For that reason, it is clear that Malaysia has a vested interest in helping to resolve an ethnic conflict that taking place on its northern border. For example, it is an open secret that tens or hundreds of thousands of Malay Muslims in border areas are actually illegally hold dual Thai and Malaysian nationality. Then, many current or former leaders of Patani militant groups live in Malaysia, and most of them is under the watchful eye of the Malaysian special branch and intelligence Malaysia services (McCargo, 2014). This is the reason why Zamzamin’s team was being able to assemble a group of BRN negotiators to join the peace process. In addition, Zamzamin has strong support from eight senior officials in the National Security Council, which is through the concerning of primarily agency with the internal security, that constitute a secretariat for the smooth process.
In handling any conflict that happen, we need to lesson from others comparable conflict is that neighbouring countries that are historically can be implicated that need to be brought on board in order to reduce a violence towards the community. Many Patani militant leaders are unconvinced about Malaysia’s role as a mediator in solving the ethnic conflict between M...
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... of the dialogue partners. These was also includes in reaching out to the different groups of PULO, that whose been signed a November agreement to take part in the future talks, as well as to visiting Indonesia to participant in representatives of talks in other militant parties (McCargo, 2014). Furthermore, it was also giving talks and press conferences in Thailand to drum up more support for the dialogue process in February 2014 (McCargo, 2014). However, none of these efforts has been succeeded in reviving through the face to face talks. Then, with the high-profile progress of the Mindanao peace talks, Malaysia was also involved as a mediator, and it has increased a pressure on Zamzamin to deliver the goods in Southern Thailand, that has though in reality this is not a fair comparison given to the much longer investment of time in the Philippine process as well.
A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles is a flashback of the main character, Gene Forrester’s schooling at the Devon School in New England. During this flashback Gene remembers his best friend Finny, who was really athletic and outgoing. Gene and Finny’s friendship was a relationship of jealousy. Gene was jealous of Finny’s talent in athletics, and Finny was envious of Gene’s talent in school. In the end, Gene’s jealousy of Finny takes over and causes him to shake the tree branch that makes Finny fall and break his leg. The break was bad, but it was not until Finny fell down the stairs and broke his leg again, that he had to have surgery. The surgery that Finny would undergo would cause more complications and heartbreaking news for Gene. During the surgery Finny would lose his life due to some bone marrow that escaped into his blood stream and stopped his heart from beating. “As I was moving the bone some of the marrow must have escaped into his blood stream and gone directly to his heart and stopped it” (Knowles 193). Although people do not normally think about bone marrow as being a huge part of the human body, it can cause some major issues if it has to be replaced or escapes into the blood stream.
One of the most interesting indigenous groups in the world is the Batek of Malaysia, this is a group of people that live in the oldest rain forest of peninsular Malaysia. Orang ASli means “Original people” in the native Malay Language, and they truly are the original people of the land. Being a nomadic group of hunters and gatherers, means that they are at the mercy of the land and the elements for survival. Batek beliefs note that, the rainforest was created by “superhuman” beings for the Batek to use and will destroy the world and everything on it if the Batek were ever to leave the rainforest ( K.M. Endcott 1979a; Lye 2004). The Batek believe that the “superhuman” beings created the forest for the Batek to harvest, build houses in, and provide also to decorations for their ceremonial rituals.
...ze one party. In addition, Bangladesh can shed light on the value of journalists and activists there who are of paramount importance to multinational companies, thus informing Niko of their culture and how they should treat reporters. Integrating a mediator into the negotiation can be helpful, especially if the mediator is an Indian executive who can serve as a representative for both parties. He/she can inform Bangladesh about how Niko helped India while informing Niko about how Bangladesh responds to business, since India and Bangladesh are neighboring countries and have a good trade relationship.
...l to socio-economical. Even more fascinating is the similarly consistent trend that states which deployed peaceful negotiations with the colonialists were much more successful than their violent counterparts in achieving or maintaining sovereignty and peace- despite at times having to sacrifice one for the other. For reasons that are beyond the scope of this paper, Boahen makes a conscious decision not to emphasize this ostensible tendency. Ultimately, peaceful responses did not bring about a harmonious relationship between the colony and the colonial power; however, in contrast to their violent counterparts, they did not result in nearly the equivalent number of deaths, injuries and devastating consequences to the infrastructure of the colony.
...ve experienced the sometimes-difficult transition to a democracy; others are currently in that transition. For some countries this transition will take a matter of months, for others is can take years. Sustainable peace requires a reform of all agencies in any way connected to the government. One of the major areas is the Security Sector. The best way to affect sustainable peace through security sector reform is to allow the people to reform their own security sector. The key elements necessary for a successful reform of the security sector are a centralized democratic government willing to reform, the people’s support for a reform, strong leaders to push this reform through, the willingness to compromise, a striving for peaceful resolutions, and above all a strong want of Democracy. These elements result in the bringing the joys of freedom to the people. (1,500)
The democratic peace theory was not always seen as the substantial argument and significant contribution to the field of International Relations that it is today. Prior to the 1970’s, it was the realist and non-realist thought that took preeminence in political theoretical thinking. Though the democratic peace theory was first criticized for being inaccurate in its claim that democracy promotes peace and as such democracies do not conflict with each other, trends, statistical data, reports have suggested and proved that the democratic peace theory is in fact valid in its claim. Over the years having been refined, developed and amended, it is now most significant in explaining modern politics and it is easy to accept that there is indeed a lot of truth in the stance that democracy encourages peace. The democratic peace theory is a concept that largely influenced by the likes of Immanuel Kant, Wilson Woodrow and Thomas Paine.
... Despite the negative effects that had brought bad impact to the country, it was also one of the things that have strengthened the country. It has provided an acceleration of development for the country. Conclusions References Works Cited http://prezi.com/ko92evamttlo/colonial-rule-and-impacts-in-sea/ http://www.marxist.com/malaysia-fifty-years-independence-part-one.htm http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120320222600AAYZmN7 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090908024038AAH5Qw
One of the most appealing sides of democratic peace theory is its simplicity. This is favored both by the public and the academic, because it gives a clear explanation of the statement that democracies don’t fight each other. In the world of politics and international relations having a clear cut idea is valuable and that is why this theory gains a large number of popularity in this field. This may be considered as the first strength of democratic ...
In the 1999 elections for the first time in Malaysia’s history opposition parties united under Barisan Alternatif (Alternative Front or BA). Party Keadilan is a small multi-ethnic party formed in 1999 by activists in the reformation movement. Besides, PAS (Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party) had provided strong competition for UMNO. Another major ...
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However, must be bear in mind that the mediator is at no power of making decisions which bind the parties. The mutual agreement or resolution which achieved during a mediation process will need enforcement by registering the resolution or settlement agreement in court. Although mediation seems like a better solution than the court process however, must be remember that not every mediation session will end up with a settlement or resolution as wanted, take for example a mediation which took place between one of Malaysia celebrity, Hanez Suraya and her Public Relation (PR) Officer, Mohd Fairus...
The causes of ethnic conflict cannot be generalised to fit all incidents, as the conflicts in Sri
The perception of transformation is the change from one state to another. Conflict transformation in more specific terms is the transition through various stages. Primarily, conflict transformation takes place through the underlying stage to confrontation to negotiation to vibrant, peaceful relationships. The purpose of this essay is to choose a historical or contemporary situation in which conflict transformation has taken place in the past and/or continues to occur. In my assignment I will research the origins, causes and current status of the conflict. I will identify what has been done and/or is being done to address the conflict in a transformative manner today. I will assess this particular situation with reference to two of the structure or process models covered in this course. I will develop a plan for further action, based on structural and process models discussed in this course. Finally I will integrate Lederach’s time frame and see if I can bond it with this particular case.
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