The Whiskey War over Hans Island: A Case Study in International Conflict Resolution

April 30, 2023 0 Comments

The Whiskey War over Hans Island, also known as the Hans Island Dispute, was a longstanding territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark that found its conception in the 1930s; it finally reached its conclusion in June 2022. The dispute revolves around the sovereignty over Hans Island, a small, uninhabited island located in the Arctic Ocean …

The potential and threats of Somalia’s accession to the East African Community

April 27, 2023 0 Comments

Jean Marie Vianney SIKUBWABO World Mediation Organization   Keywords: The East African Community, regional integration, conflict resolution, economic development, sustainable peace and security, terrorism.   The Author: Jean Marie Vianney SIKUBWABO (sissasikubwabo@gmail.com) is a doctoral student in mediation and conflict resolution at EUCLID University (an Intergovernmental and Treaty-based Institution under the United Nations Treaty Series 49006/49007), …

A critical need for sustainable peace and security for an effective East African Community integration

April 27, 2023 0 Comments

Jean Marie Vianney SIKUBWABO World Mediation Organization Keywords: Regional integration, conflict resolution, economic development, sustainable development, common market, customs union, common currency, sustainable peace and security, terrorism, Genocide, collective defense.   The Author: Jean Marie Vianney SIKUBWABO (sissasikubwabo@gmail.com) is a doctoral student in mediation and conflict resolution at EUCLID University (an Intergovernmental and Treaty-based Institution …

The role of unofficial diplomatic actors in the effectiveness of international diplomatic functions

December 30, 2022 0 Comments

Modern diplomacy is experiencing fundamental changes at an unprecedented rate, thus affecting diplomacy’s very character. In that sense, technical developments, technological advancements, the complexity of conflicts, and the proliferation of foreign business relations affect how diplomats perform or should perform their functions. In that same diplomatic trend, the number of domestic and international actors influences …

Protests for environmental protection

November 15, 2022 0 Comments

The birth of a new phenomenon Environmental movements in several European countries recently have held unusual forms of protest pointing to the alarming situation caused by global pollution, warming, and the exponential increase in the emission of harmful gases. To demonstrate the gravity of the problem, they used an unusual form of protest by destroying …

Diplomacy in a parental abduction case and the interests of the child

November 14, 2022 2 Comments

On 29 September 2016 a two-year-old girl, called Insiya, was kidnapped, and taken from her mother in the Netherlands. The kidnapping was violently carried out by three men who took Insiya from her grandmother’s house in Amsterdam after her mother had just left the house. She was taken to her father, who then smuggled her …