I’m doing an assignment on a unit called Pursuit of Justice. This focuses on things like discrimination, primarily between blacks and whites, the conflict between israel and Palestine and…I don’t know what else, because that’s as far as we’ve gotten. We are given a list of terms (such as Aboriginal rights, Apartheid, Conflict) that we have to define and relate back to the specific unit at hand. We have to do this by ourselves, so, some terms have not been mentioned in class, and we have to hunt down the information. Some of what I have googled is so broad, that I have no idea how to explain it and relate it back to justice, or lack of justice in a specific topic. Can any of you help me with this? The words that are troubling me are:
Democratization
Independence
International Cooperation
Democratization: picking a system where the masses don’t have a say in the big decisions and change it so that everybody can put his/her two cents on whatever is being decided.
Independence: being sovereign on one’s own destiny. Independent nations make their own laws and are free to interact with other nations as they like. It is not so with colonies, for example.
International Cooperation: it’s when nations get together to do something. Like interpol, for example. The police force of many countries sum forces to fight international crime. Or the mobs of countries in the WTO, in UN, which try to make sure everybody plays Commerce by the rules.
Liberation Theology: Belief and basis for the movement that claims that the Christian Gospel demands “a preferential option for the poor,” and that the church should be involved in the struggle for economic and political justice in the contemporary world—particularly in the Third World. Dating to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the Second Latin American Bishops Conference, held in Medellin, Colombia (1968).
Non Alignment: Political position of neutrality (‘non-alignment’) adopted by countries towards major powers, specifically the USA and former USSR. The movement emerged in the 1960s during the Cold War between East and West 1949–89. Although originally used by poorer states, the non-aligned position was later adopted by oil-producing nations. Its 113 members hold more than half the world’s population and 85% of oil resources, but only 7% of global GDP (1995).
Majority Rule: A doctrine by which a numerical majority of an organized group holds the power to make decisions binding on all in the group.
I’m sorry, but you are going to have to do the relation by yourself.
Eva, independence has to do with justice because a country that is not independent is kinda like a “slave” to the country it’s dependent to.
Thus, for example, when US were not independent, England made the rules of the game there. The queen and the english made the rules, and americans had to follow these rukes, or else… That lead to every kind of abuse, with England putting taxes on everything and sucking all the resources it could from US. That’s what led to a revolt and then independence later.
I’m using this example because US was the first country in the three Americas to break free from Europe. It was kinda the same with the rest of the continent, with a few differences here and there. Now you answer me, is Canada fully independent from England? I hear the queen still has some kind of authority there.