Questions of objectivity have always dogged the Voice of America because it is a government agency and because its foreign-language services have always had to deal with echoes of homeland conflicts when they recruited broadcasters multiethnic states.
Violent instances of transplanted homeland politics (when homeland conflicts are transplanted to the host country) were over-represented.
It falls under the type 'transplanted homeland politics', which occurs when homeland conflicts enter the receiving country (for the typology see Koopmans et al. 2005, pp. 126 7).
As an extension of homeland conflict, it has a clear transnational dimension.
They also have to defend the homeland, deter conflict in the Koreas and, potentially, according to the current military doctrine, fight another war.Mr Rumsfeld's resistance to recruiting a much bigger regular army stems in part from his dogmatic adherence to high-tech fighting.
In addition to El Salvador, residents from nine other countries are allowed to stay in this country because of dangers in their homelands from conflict or environmental disaster: Angola, Burundi, Honduras, Liberia, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sudan.
Chalabi was remembered by Iraqi leaders on Tuesday as an ardent advocate of democracy and brave mediator in his homeland's internal conflicts, as well as a tainted political figure dogged through his lifetime by accusations of corruption and self-dealing.
During debates Thursday night, Palestinian church members told of seeing homes destroyed in their homeland during the conflict with Israel.
An important observation for policy makers may be that people who reported a high willingness to return were those who had visited their homeland after the conflict and crisis and those who were significantly more homesick.
"Who are the bad guys?" In classroom after classroom, instructors struggled to adjust their syllabuses to reflect questions like that, emphasizing "non-state conflict" and "homeland defense," and knotty issues of balancing national security with personal freedom.
The judoka, who are seeking asylum in Brazil from their conflict-riven homeland, are being considered for selection in a new category of refugee athletes who will participate under the banner of the International Olympic Committee.
