Write two paragraph objective summary that describes the purpose and main ideas of henry david thoreau's "resistance to civil government." throughout your summary, you should maintain a formal, authoritative tone.

A summary of Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government.

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Resistance to Civil Government on Resistance to Civil Disobedience was written in 1846 as a justification of Thoreau's denial to pay taxes. Thoreau's ideas try to explain that people should not follow human made laws, but they should follow their own beliefs about right and wrong. According to him, human law is unfair to most people and disguises terrible ideas such as the correctness of slavery and violent war.

Thoreau denied to pay taxes as a way to protest against and to hindrance the American social policies of slavery and the War against Mexico. He supported his ideas on the fact that the American declaration of Independence allows every individual to doubt and disrespect the law.

2015 was the centenary of the events in the Ottoman Empire in which up to a million and a half Armenians met their deaths. Historians on all sides are more or less in agreement on what took place, but present-day Turkey and Armenia continue to be in open disagreement on whether to call these events a genocide or not.

Even if this disagreement is highly unlikely to lead to any kind of armed conflict between Turkey and Armenia, it continues to prevent a rapprochement between them and a normalization of their relations.

This is merely one example of how different views and interpretations of history continue to play a role in creating and stoking conflicts and in hampering efforts for conflict resolution. And even when conflicts are resolved with peace agreements, the unaddressed history you think you have buried can return as zombies to haunt you and at worst lead to a renewal of the conflict.

Post-conflict work also entails writing the history of the conflict in a way that meets the approval of all parties to it. We can well imagine how challenging this is for example in writing a common history for Cyprus, not to mention how to write Middle Eastern history if and when a lasting peace can be made between Israel and Palestine.

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