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Promoting peace through microbiology and sports

Table 4. Some literature on honor crimes or honor killings
Literature Information Author (s)/Year
Some literature tags honor crimes and honor killings as a
feminine problem
Honor killings in the Eastern Mediterranean Region The criminal behavior of killing individuals to allegedly cover family/ AlQahtani et al.,
societal shame. The practice hurt families and society, hurting individuals 2023
more than the “shame.”
There’s No Honor in Honor Killing: The Paradox of Family murdered a 19-year-old lady to allegedly cover family shame. Abushkhaidem,
Femicide in Palestinian Media Palestinians condemned the act and campaign against honor killings. 2022
Between Two Worlds: The Racialization of Femicides in “Femicide” is the global murder of women. Schwacke, 2022
German News Reports Targeted honor-based crimes against some racial minority females exist.
Some literature shows that honor crimes target not only
females
Between Two Worlds: The Racialization of Femicides in For honor-based killing, both the “victim” and criminal are mostly from Schwacke, 2022
German News Reports “majority” societies and are migrants. These are examples of religious or
tribal honor crimes that do not target only females.
Coethnic Concentration and Asians’ Perceived Asians were hated, stigmatized, and discriminated against during Lee et al., 2022
Discrimination Across U.S. Counties during COVID-19 COVID-19. Hatred against Asians increased to 150%. These are
racial/tribal honor crimes.
Problematizing “Honor Crimes” within the Canadian Honor crimes are new societal problems championed by tribalism and Gill, 2022
Context: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Popular racism. It also revealed “honor crime” as a tagged feminine issue after
Media and Political Discourses colonialism.

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him: “The world does not have an interest in division; it Dirty politics and over-politicization of issues of national
needs loving and united individuals;” this will help create importance have led to increased politics of insults (Pulle, 2021).
a good environment to support the achievement of the But once the national team scores, all Ghanaians are
common good (SDGs). Football is full of aggression with always happy. Scoring a goal brings unity to the team,
very aggressive players, leading to injury (Yan et al., 2022). their supporters, and Ghanaians. The same is said about
However, football matches are full of “rules” that govern football in reality. This agrees with FIFA World Cups
them (Ammann & Altmann, 2023); so, despite soccer and other Confederation Football, where Nations and
aggressiveness, they end peacefully. Team Supporters are seen happily jubilating when their
In a divided and envious environment, violence thrives, national team scores/wins (Historyofsoccer.info, A., 2023;
overshadowing peace. Injuries from violence (Paalo, 2017) Aljazeera.com., 2022). In Ghana, though dirty politics
make individuals incapacitated, preventing them from divide citizens, the National Men’s Football Team scoring
working. Violence displaces individuals and violates their always unites the citizens.
human rights, destroying valuable human resources and If you are destroying someone for alleged competition,
property (Paalo, 2017). In violence, individuals cannot you are sabotaging the achievement of the world’s common
go out or do their work/businesses (Awkwa, 2022), which good (Helldén et al., 2022). Unity makes it easy for teams to
negatively impacts economic activities/entrepreneurship. win their matches/games. The ball is normally beautifully
With experience, the only thing that mostly divides passed, without bias, to any player with the opportunity
Ghanaians or some nations is “dirty politics” (Paalo, 2017). to create more chances to score. Team members’ ability to

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