Historical and Socio-Political Conflicts Still Relevant Today

Zoom Discussion Reflection Paper
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February 20, 2023
Understanding the various historical and socio-political conflicts worldwide is essential for understanding the current policies between nations. This understanding allows for developing strategic policies to address conflicts within and between various nation-states. Accordingly, during the Zoom meeting held, several points were raised by the instructor, which included past conflicts between nation-states and the current state of war between various nation-states. In light of this, the author believes that some of the most unique concepts and discussions that were made include those that transpired between WW1, the policies that were created because of it, and the current conflict that are happening around the world since these shows a continuity between the past and current state of affairs in the international and domestic settings.
Reflection
One of the things that I found helpful was the discussion about the war between Japan, and the United States was a pivotal moment in the history of the world. Aside from the historically-known facts that were presented, the instructor also provided a discussion about the battle of Hiroshima. In line with this, even though I agree with the professor that the Bombing of Hiroshima was done by necessity, I also believe that the current and contemporary discussions on its necessity have somehow sugar-coated the effect on the innocent lives lost during that day. One example of this was that the bombing and the war were credited to the formation of the United Nations.
Another important topic discussed was the Fourteen Points and how the United States failed to abide by these points. The Fourteen Points was a proposal by United States President Woodrow Wilson in 1918 to create a f...