places at risk for genocide – us holocaust museum website places at risk
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Places at risk for genocide – US Holocaust Museum website
Genocide, Human Rights and Intervention
When is intervention appropriate? What moral obligations do we have when faced with
something like the Rwanda genocide? Is it immoral to send American/UN soldiers to Rwanda to
kill (and be killed by) Hutu soldiers and militias? Is it immoral to NOT send American/UN soldiers to
Rwanda? What about intervening in Iraq under Saddam
Hussein? The Democratic Republic of the Congo or Sudan today?
Morality and intervention
The Genocide in Rwanda Burundi / Rwanda / Oregon10k mi2 10k mi2 100k mi2$270 $640 $50,000
Seeds of Genocide
On Edge of Horror
All Hell Breaks Loose
Killing Continues
Evil on Trial
The Genocide in Rwanda
A government military commits systematic rape during war
A government fails to prevent rapes known to be a systematic problem in a society during peacetime
A government punishes those who do not follow certain reproductive rules
A religion punishes those who do not follow certain reproductive rules
A government forces young women to submit to genital mutilation
Men in society force young women to submit to genital mutilation
Women in society force young women to submit to genital mutilation
Are these similar or different?
Military force? Economic sanctions? Diplomacy? Social change and mobilization? Education? Bi-directional (do Westerners get
educated as well as educate)? Are our minds open to change?
For what problems do you use which of these?
If you think we should do something, what should we do?