Essays on Rwandan

Improving the Operating Strategy of Marriott

Improving the Operating Strategy of Marriott The purpose of the report is to develop a recommendation for improving a company’s current strategy in order to remain sustainable in a highly competitive economic environment. The recommendation will be based on an analysis of both the external and internal factors that affects the company. This includes both qualitative and quantitative factors since the report is segregated into (1) environmental scan and risk analysis, (2) ratio analysis, (3) financial statement analysis, (4) weighted average cost of capital, and a (5) strategy development. The company chosen to be analyzed is Marriott International, ...

Rwanda is a developing nation in the Eastern Africa region that remains highly dependent on foreign aid from international bodies such as World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). According to The World Bank (2016), foreign aid accounted for about 30% to 40% of the country’s budget in 2015. The role of foreign aid on Rwanda’s social, economic, and political development is one that is subject to debate among intellectuals. On one hand, it is argued that foreign aid is necessary to facilitate socio-economic development but on the other hand, it is argued that conditional ...

Introduction

With the ongoing process of internationalization, the inter-connectedness between countries significantly improved and it persuaded regulators worldwide to think about criminal justice on a global perspective. Though different countries follow different types of criminal justice systems, they all have identified the need of enhanced co-operation for establishing law and order in their territory. Fast advancements in the technological landscape assisted nations worldwide to take collaborative efforts to promote crime management and prevention. However, growing cyber crimes raise new threats to criminal justice systems worldwide because criminals have always been one step ahead of law enforcement agencies in terms of ...

In 1994, Rwanda, a country in central Africa, exploded into civil war. However, the fighting in Rwanda would not be limited solely to fighting between two civil military forces; instead, the country exploded into a full-scale genocide seemingly overnight. Although the events of the Rwandan genocide lasted only a few months, the participants were committing genocide at a rate faster than the rate of genocide during the Holocaust (Gourevitch & Stewart, 2015). Over the course of these few months, Rwanda went from a relatively stable country to one that was experiencing significant political turmoil. The events of the Rwandan civil ...

Many people set morally high standards for educated people. This is fundamentally because we are raised to believe that education makes people “ladies” and “gentlemen”. Hence, there are things that are considered to be “below” some of the most educated and elite people. In spite of this, there are many things that points that the reverse is true. One can hardly rationalize the reason why the most literate and most elite nation on earth, Germany perpetrated the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s. This paper argues that although education often leads to enlightenment, it does not necessarily equal to ...

Some places in Rwanda are prone to disasters. The most frequent natural disasters are floods and landslides, and both have a tremendous impact on human lives, property, infrastructure and the environment. For example, in May 2016, both disasters hit Gakenke and Muhanga, killing more than forty people. Rubavu and Ngororero were also hit, and seven people died in these places while others were left injured. Parts of Northern Rwanda are most susceptible to these disasters (REMA, 2011, 45). These include Rubavu Districts, Musanze, Nyabihu, and Burera. Although these are natural disasters, their magnitude is determined by a combination of ...

Introduction

The paper will examine the local and international media, which have played a crucial role in the Rwanda genocide. Local print and radio fueled the killings, while the international media did not take the news seriously and misconstrued events on the ground or even ignored the local reporting. The illiteracy rate was high at the time of the genocide in Rwanda and radio was one of the most important means to deliver the governmental messages to the wider public. It can be stated that the western media, such as CNN, BBC, The New York Times did not maintain the ...

Abstract

When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s after the Cold War, the international arena has shifted drastically from the nature of the status quo to the conflicts that continues to trouble several regions today. In terms of the status quo, many nations adhered to democratization that resolved many conflicts that were influenced by the Cold War. On the other hand, the nature of conflicts after the Cold War have drastically changed as some wars are now fought by different actors and the intensity of each conflict varies. At the present time, conflicts persist throughout the globe and even ...

Introduction

The paper aims to tackle the constituents of Genocide. It also aims to tackle the differences and similarities of the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide. Although at the core, both the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust are originated in racist ideologies, deep hatred and discrimination; at the surface they present the world in different views. The ways society accepted and aided both circumstances as well as the socio-cultural factors that provoked these atrocities were differentiable. In order to attain the paper’s objective, this paper will first give the definition of genocide, then facts about Rwanda Genocide and holocaust. ...

Internal Displacement and Statelessness; the theory and practice

Internal Displacement and Statelessness; the theory and practice

Introduction

The Refugee Convention of 1951 defines the term ‘refugee’ in words that are very much self-explanatory when it says that a refugee is an individual who “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.” The people who have to flee their homes and sometimes their countries face challenges that ...

Rwanda is not only an African country with panoramic hills and kind laughing people. It is a country where only 22 years ago, during just one hundred days, there eight hundred and fifty thousand people, which was one-seventh of the total population of Rwanda, were killed. In the civilized 20th century, almost one million people were killed without the use of gas chambers, crematories, extermination camps or other modern technical innovations. The victims fell down mostly from hands of neighbors and relatives with machetes and other melee weapons. This sorrowful massacre of the Rwandan people was left without any ...

The radio is viewed as the most impactful medium of communication during the genocide due to its extensive outreach in the Rwandan population. The role of radio starts from the partisan ownership and lack of objectivity that comes with it. The main radio station cited, RTLM, was owned by Hutu hardliners in the ruling government, same people who led the genocide (Strauss). During the genocide, the radio’s messages were full of anti-rebel sentiments and inflammatory statements (Strauss). The radio station announced people’s names and places which were later attacked in the violence, tying the broadcasts directly to ...