Essays on Aoun

Introduction

Diversity involves acknowledging and appreciating differences among people with respect to issues such as tribal affiliation, ethnicity, religion, performance capabilities and public status. The world’s population, now at a staggering seven billion mark continues to rise, and this comes with increasing differences among people. At the workplace, people are different because of various factors such as culture, ethnicity, nationality, political affiliations, skills and talent. Diversity can be drawn from an extensive list of differences and still would not include everything. There are three classes of diversity elements including social diversity, value diversity and informational diversity. Social diversity consists of ...

The European Union in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

- Introduction and Research Question For decades, the Israelis and the Palestinians had remained at odds with one another because of the decades-old conflict on mutual recognition, territorial boundaries, and national identities that still remains unresolved despite various negotiations held for the resolution of the conflict. According to Tessler (1994), the conflict can be traced since the 19th century when the Zionists and the Arabs first came into contact and argued as to their right of access and claim to the religious sites such as Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Canaan. However, the arguments escalated as the Arabs and Palestinians ...

Contemporary alliances -

“No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon” (Rubin, 2009). That is how the present-day situation in Lebanon is described in the 2010 book Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis. Torn by internecine religious and ethnic strife and pressured from outside by incursions from its neighbors, Lebanon is a society constantly in motion, always in turmoil and utterly prone to violence. Alliances are transitory and subject to shifts at any given moment, often with horrific results. The country’s main religious and political power groups include ...