Essays on Genocide

How genocide affected the relationship between the Maya and the Guatemalan government. How would they react to the offer of military assistance to assist them in recovering from the Hurricane Stan?

The two articles give a clear and detailed picture of the effects of genocide. How the Maya community perceptions towards the Guatemalan government was distorted. The Guatemalan army, according to the articles, conducted all inhuman activities that you can imagine off, with the intention of implanting fear to the people. The military adopted harmful and dangerous techniques. They crushed communities, resulting to death of more than 200,000 ...

In order to examine the colony’s influence on the third Reich the author contextualizes it within the scope of racism and violence of other colonial regimes in Africa. Likewise, the article explores how German South West Africa colonial policies such as the acquisition of Lebensraum, treating colonized as inhuman and legally institutionalizing racism were used by the Nazis. The article examines how genocidal style, annihilation war and the use of concentration camps were altered across time and adopted. The article also explores how Hermann Goring and Eugen Fischer, among others served as human conduits in order to facilitate ...

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Chapter 1 is an examination of the encounters between Europeans and Indians during the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Most of the discussion is about Christopher Columbus and the Spanish who encountered Indians in the Caribbean beginning in the late fifteenth century. Zinn wrote about issues such as how history has been presented over the years. Additionally, he discussed how Columbus’ treatment of the Arawak is not unique. The history is comparable to Andrew Jackson and the Cherokees, Hernando Cortes and the Aztecs, the English colonists in America and the Powhatans, etc. Zinn’s style of history telling ...

Genocides start because of the conflict between people of same race or religion attempting to displace the different race or religion. Conflicting interests between individuals from different race or religion can result to genocides. In the 20th century, over 250 million people have lost their lives due to genocides. Millions of people are left at risk of the exposure due to increased incidences of mass violence. Data and knowledge that indicates the long-term mental health effects that come with the exposure to the genocide remains scattered. Genocides have led to mass violence and displacement of people since it stirs ...

Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire is a well known Canadian humanitarian, Senator and author of two books along with being a retired General. The Lieutenant-General worked during 1993 till 1994 as the Force Commander in UNAMIR, the peace keeping force organized by United Nations in Rwanda against the known extremists of Hutu against the moderate people of Tutsis and Hutu (Romeo Dallaire a, 2014). Romeo Dallaire has founded The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative along with being a Senior Member at the Montreal Institute’s Department of Genocide and Human Rights Studies. His achievements also include that he is also the Co-Director of the Project ...

Though not always elitist, movies are excellent at reflecting the reality and human history, just as poetry and prose are. The movie industry was being developed over the 20th century while the human civilization was being shaken by major military collisions, be they regional or conflicts of world proportions. There was no way the movie industry could sit sluggish in the circumstances, with film directors addressing the most vital social issues of the day. Genocide is one of grimmest crimes committed during the conflicts. Atrocious was the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Jews in Nazi Germany – ...

After the World War II, two nations became extremely notorious in both crimes of genocide and torture: Japan and Germany. Germany’s attempt to wipe out the Jews out of Germany was because of Hitler’s orders. Hitler believed that the Caucasians are the supreme races on Earth and should remain that way. He killed and captured the Jews and created a laboratory in Auschwitz; many German scientists carried out illegal experiments that lead to torture and death of many Jews. The same case also applies for Japan. The Rape of Nanjing in 1937 tells the story of the torture ...

Sociological imagination connects an individual’s imagination to events and other people in the society. There are three key principles in sociological imagination; history, social structure and biography. Mills’ hypothesis states that people are able to understand themselves and the reality around them by linking their personal experience with structural and historical forces (Mitra&Sarabia, 2005). In this paper, I will correlate my personal experience from events that have happened around and how they have influenced my decisions. This concept needs to be applied carefully since it attempts to create a connection between public issues and my personal experience (Schudson, 2008). ...

1. The documentary explains what happened during the Rwandan Civil War. It questions Paul Kagame’s role as general of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) during the war and his presidency that has followed. He has been portrayed as the president who saved Rwanda from genocide and destruction particularly in the west. He has also been supported by former president’s Bill Clinton and Tony Blair who is an unpaid advisor of the President. Since his presidency academics have conducted research into the presidential plane crash that killed the outgoing president and started the genocide of Hutus in Rwanda ...

Running for his Life

I believe that Michael Hall, the reporter of this story, is most impressed by the manner in which Gilbert escaped from death. Gilbert has an amazing story of his account of the Genocide, and the escape from the fire is the climax. It is impressive how he became a survivor, and the reader cannot help but feel inspired. From the account of jumping through the window and running while, on fire, it is clear that Gilbert was meant to live through the experience. Michael reports, “He jumped.his back was on fire, his legs were smoking, and his feet were raw ...

Abstract

Genocide must be stopped everywhere in the world and Cameroon is a good place to start. Genocidal criminal activities can cause death as well as physical and mental injuries. Forcing children to move out of their home, an attempt to commit genocide, conspiring and/or incitement to commit genocide and complicity in genocide are all covered under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Cameroon has experienced genocide and attacks by the Central African Republic are one example. The international community needs to intervene to stop the genocide and to organize legitimate elections. In order to promote peace, ...

Introduction

The Armenian genocide is the mass killing of minority of the Armenian population. The Armenian genocide occurred when the World War one was taking place and continued after the war was over. The government headed by Ottoman systematically exterminated minority of Armenian population from their rightful land. This genocide started by mass killing of strong male population. These men were forced hard to work while women and children were deported to Syrian Desert. The elderly were not left behind in the deportation to Syrian Desert. Some of the religious groups were also targeted (Dadrian, 2010).

Anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism is the discrimination and ...

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The conducted research will be narrating about the bloody revolution, in terms of genocide that took place during the years of 1975-1979 in Cambodia, and was carried out by the Khmer Rouge regime in pursuit of the economic stability and self-reliability of the country. Planned as a peaceful revolution, it rapidly turned to be aggressive and bloody as soon as the Khmer Rouge regime gained power and was able to control and manipulate huge masses of people using fear, tortures, and death as their primary methods, which resulted in the extermination of up to two million people (21 to 24% ...

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Genocide in Guatemala: An Outline Guatemala is mostly hilly country in Central America. It was erstwhile the heart of the well-known Mayan civilization, which was prevalent till the 10th century AD. When Spanish voyagers invaded Maya in the 16th century, the indigenous Mayans were enslaved in their own native soil. They are even now the most underprivileged majority of the Guatemala's population. Such kinds of inequalities and cruelties of Mayan people led to bitter Civil war in Guatemala which resulted in the mass genocide of this community. In ...

That there was genocide in Rwanda culminating to the death of close to 1 million people is no secret. It has been 19 years since the world watched in disbelief as a nation descended upon itself in a move to exterminate one another. In order to bring justice to the victims, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was formed to prosecute the core perpetrators. This court was established in November 1994 by the United Nation Security Council to try those responsible for the genocide and other violation of international law in Rwanda. These crimes ranged from planned exterminations of the ...

The concept of sovereignty is one in which nations around the world hold dear to the advancement of their international policy. The principles of sovereignty dictate that a country holds unlimited power over the ability to govern itself without outside interference. The advancement of these principles gives the rest of the world powers a peripheral role in determining the destiny of separate nations. While this concept is important in ensuring that countries do not overstep their authority and harm the interests of other nations for the advancement of their own, the applicability of the sovereignty of a nation is a concept that needs ...

Former Guatemalan dictator General Jose Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide on May 10, 2013; the crimes he committed were performed against the Mayan-Ixil people and occurred during his leadership from 1982-1983 (Kearns). His offenses, which include rape, murder, and displacement of Mayan-Ixil people from their villages led Judge Jazmin Berrios to hand down an 80-year sentence, with 30 years for his crimes against humanity and 50 years for the genocide (Kearns). A variety of evidence led a Guatemalan tribunal to conclude that Montt was guilty of these crimes. Ixil people who witnessed and ...

Genocide involves the mass killing of certain ethics, race or group of individuals. The motive of mass killing may be due to political difference, religious difference, culture difference and mistrust among different group. Increase in frequencies of the genocide has made historian explore on the main causes of the genocide. Their researches are aimed to prevent cases of genocide. Jan Gross, the writer of the book Neighbors has done extensive analysis of what led to the Jewish genocide. The book exposes the perpetrator of the Jewish genocide. A contrast to the historical believes that the genocide was facilitated by ...

Introduction

Genocide was born out of the whims of political leaders whose powers met no restraints in the form of any formal convention. Political leaders gain motivation to commit genocide from their sheer dislike towards differences, often defined through nationality, religion and race, among others. Genocidal events have imbued a lasting negative impression throughout generations that have succeeded, especially on groups of people whose ancestors have gone through the plight of mass killings. With that kind of awareness in mind, contemporary politics has become more sensitive in limiting the powers of political leaders. Notions ...

AMERICAN LEGACY OF GUILT OVER THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA AND DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.

Genocide is a saddening word in its description. The word did not exist before the year 1944. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer, describes it as an intended and a coordinated plan of different actions such as killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm or imposing measures intended to prevent birth within a group with the aim of destructing essential foundations of life of a national, racial or ethnical group. (Funk, T. Marcus (2010) page 1) .According to 1948 United Nations Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of Genocide article 2; genocide is an act done with the intention of destroying in ...

“Genocide” is the term used to describe a mass destruction of, or within a particular group, based on racial, religious, or ethnic discrimination, with deliberate and systematic motives. The term “Genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin, in the year 1944. Lemkin was a lawyer and his book “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe” introduced us to this term for the first time. According to Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide signifies a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” However, according to the Convention on the Prevention and ...

The Holocaust is recognized as the as the most horrible and grisly demonstration of the brutality of genocide, and it is shocking to learn that businesses at the time actually profited because of the genocide. Over the years, many American, German, and other foreign countries trying to do business have caused controversy because of their ties in the Holocaust (Greenspan, 2008). The Ford Motor Company, IBM, and IG Farben, a German company, are at the top of the list of companies that played a role in the Holocaust. Although, Hitler hated outgroup religions for centuries, but it was Henry Ford ...

Introduction

Numerous historians have indicated that the Holocaust is without parallel in history as a crime against humanity. Based partly on the history over the last 2,500 years of anti-Semitism, and partly on reference sources researched in the process of preparing this essay, the writer agrees with the view taken by historians and others that the Holocaust was indeed unique when compared with other incidences of genocide or mass killing of a population.

What Made the Holocaust Unique

Major reasons for singling out the Holocaust as a unique crime in human history are: - As indicated in the reading “A Brief History of the Jewish People” – ...

Introduction

The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was one of the massacres that country witnessed in the course of its history. The genocide was responsible for the death of approximately 800000 Rwandans in a span of only three months. This death toll translated to about three quarters of the Tutsi community, which was a minority ethnic community in Rwanda. Ever since Rwandan’s colonization, ethnic composition played a significant role in shaping the political structure of the country. This implied that Belgium colonizers had a great impact on influencing the genocide that took place during 1994. With this regard, the principle cause of the genocide can ...

Arguably, by the end of World War II, Soviet Union and United states were fully entrenched as the most powerful nations in the globe. Since then, United States has countless duties and responsibilities that go along with being the most influential and powerful country in the entire world. In one way or another, United States is obligated in ensuring that leaders of various nations adhere to international law, and never harm or kill their citizens. United States began its intervening on genocide cases in Germany; their main goal was to prevent the occurrence of another Holocaust. Since then, multiple ...

When comparing mass killings, one has to note if one is a genocide and the other is not but in all probability, there are similarities when mass killings are observed at close quarters. More often than not there will be an ethnic background to a genocide as in the case of the Jewish holocaust but in other cases there have also been issues which have nothing to do with ethnicity too. The two cases chosen for this essay have similarities in the fact that they occurred in Africa although their actual seeds are rather different. In Rwanda we had the ...

“Shake hands with the devil” is an adaptation film on Romeo Dallaire's autobiography, which gives details of his personal journey during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This movie was produced in 2007, after the writer visited Rwanda in 2004 to commemorate the 10 years of the genocide (Shake Hands with the Devil).

The main objective of this film is that it gives details of how the genocide in Rwanda could have been prevented if the United Nations, U.S. and French had honored Dallaire's request for more aid. According to the movie, this has been known to be one of the ...

After reading Boubacar Boris Diop’s novel Murambi, The Book of Bones I have come closer to understanding the extent of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Initially I had some hesitations on the nature and truthfulness of the issues that the author would reveal since he is not Rwandese or was not a victim of the Genocide. Diop is a Senegalese journalist and novelist. However, a reading of his book confirms of it as a witness to the genocide. The book has ingrained in me the extent of brutality of the genocide. I can visualize the deep emotional scars left in the hearts ...

Violations of Peremptory Norms committed by Syria

Abstract The unrest in Iraq and Egypt in early 2011, as well as the outbreak of a full-blown civil war in Syria later that same year, has led to an intricate web of interstate security dynamics. The civil war in Syria has extended unabated, killing more than 100,000 people and displacing millions more. Western military intervention with air strikes on the Assad regime may get forestalled with a possible UN-backed plan to counteract Syria's chemical arms stockpiles. The essay looks into the dishonor of the Peremptory Norms from the beginning of the crisis until now. The Peremptory Norms are ...

The 1994 Rwandan genocide is perhaps one of the most important events to the African continent. In this event, a nation with one of the smallest land mass in the continent suffered the biggest loss of human lives in its history. Within a short time, about a million people had lost their lives within a span of just one hundred days. Other scholars have argued that number of people murdered in the genocide far exceeds the 1 million mark, about one fifth of the country’s total population. Several governments and human rights groups have taken keen interest in studying the Rwandan case so ...

Genocide in Rwanda is one of the historical events that will live to be remembered by the people of Rwanda as well as those who were affected with the event. Gregory Stanton has tried a lot to explain some facts regarding genocide in his book “Eight Stages of Genocide.” These stages are similar to the activities that had occurred during the Rwanda genocide. The Rwanda genocide occurred in 1994. According to Gregory, the first stage of genocide is classification. This stage was experienced in Rwanda since there were some people who had distinguished themselves in groups like Hutu and Tutsi ( ...

Similarities And Differences Between The Armenian Genocide And The Jewish Holocaust

Genocide refers to a deliberate intention of the destruction and killing of people of a particular ethnic, cultural or religious people. The people in government who usually perform such action have attitudes and behaviors that were discriminative and racial in nature though they were being covered up in super nationalistic ideologies (Kelman, 1973). The Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust have several similarities and differences and scholars have examined both events and explored what led to such actions.

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian genocide occurred in several steps over several years during World War 1 in the Ottoman Empire. First of all the Turkish ...

The holocaust is one of the most inhuman and barbaric kinds human suffering the world has ever experienced. In this very event, millions of European Jews lost their lives in the most painful and sufferable way possible. This was one of example of Genocides that have struck the world in different places at different times under diverse circumstances. In general, the term genocide refers to the deliberate annihilation of a specific ethnic, racial or religious group. Of all the crimes against humanity, genocide is termed as the worst form. There have been several incidences of genocide in twenty first ...

Abstract

Democratic Kampuchea was one of the most violent regimes to ever rule. During the course of their rule, they were responsible for the death of more than two million individuals; as a proportion of the nation’s size, this is an incredibly large number. The deaths were the result of a nearly fundamentalist adherence to the philosophies espoused in The Communist Manifesto, and were incredibly damaging to the nation in both the long term and the short term. The years following the second world war were a tumultuous time for the world as a whole. The world knew that to have another ...

As a general rule, top-level answers should be a minimum of one paragraph of moderate length. Expect this to be a minimum of 150 words, usually requiring 10 or more sentences. Top-level posts less than 150 words will not be considered for full credit. Opinions are great and should be included! However, when possible, please support any opinion in the discussion with factual information or theory of substantial weight taken from some quality source or sources. For these top-posts you should avoid more than two sentences of direct quotes from any source. For the remainder of the post you should include a combination ...

In his article “Fierce Debate Divides Scholars of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide”, Jeffrey Sharlet presents a well-directed and relevant example of how sharp social problem can cause a number of misunderstandings and disputes among the researchers of this problem. At the same time, by this the author of the article emphasizes the complexity and ambiguity of the issue of Rwandan Genocide in 1994 as well. Sharlet states: “The steps by which Rwanda proceeded from such hope to such horror are many and complex Scholars from a range of disciplines and political backgrounds have all been trying to make that basic point in ...

Reflection on Hotel Rwanda

Film and cinema production has been recently in the rise having improved technology over the years. This has been one of the trending factors in the music industry. Movie production in the 19th century was low and due to the lack of efficient technology to aid in production of films. Many individuals watch films with the main aim of getting entertained but today there are films which are considered to be educative, provide warning, as well as reflecting on what is trending in the society. This paper would focus and look at the film Hotel Rwanda. The film ...

This essay will be an article review of Benjamin Madley’s “California’s Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History.” Benjamin Madley is an Assistant Professor of History at UCLA and specializes in Native American’s, the American West, and Genocide in World History. This article, from the first sentence to the last, is quite absorbing and readable.

1) The author’s main purpose in writing this essay is to attempt to define whether or not the killing of California’s Yuki Indian Tribe constitutes genocide. His guideline, or “rubric,” for judgment comes from the 1948 United Nations ...

On September 13, 2007 the United Nations (UN) embraced an international instrument entitled the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Consisting of 46 articles, this document was created to protect and promote the rights of the worlds’ indigenous populations that were not defended in other human rights legislation (University of British Columbia, indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca). James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, claims this document is unparalleled in its scope and breadth. Therefore, this paper will discuss the history and reasoning behind the declaration’s creation, why it was necessary to adopt ...

How Ordinary Men Became Genocidal Killers in the Holocaust

Introduction The Second World War was a watershed even in the history of the world. Over a period of six years, the War brought to the fore some of the worst excesses of mankind in a purgatory of hate and violence in the form of the Holocaust. The Final Solution, mass extermination of the Jews, left deep scars in the psyche of humanity. While the contours of the Holocaust may have been the product of the skewed brains of Adolf Hitler, the sole blame of the entire saga of mass murder cannot be left at Hitler’s doorstep alone. Millions ...

Hotel Rwanda movie is based on a true story of a man who against all odds tries to save people in the midst of genocide in Rwanda. It was an organized murder of almost a million Rwandans. He gives hope to people in a country when there is no hope left. Rwanda descends into total chaos and madness and the whole world opts out. Nobody wants to help the Africans as they are viewed as dung. He opens arms to the helpless and by this saves many lives. The movie is all about the atrocities conducted against humanity in Rwanda. The tension that ...

Never again?

It is a deep wound of the heart of humanity. “Most people see genocide as a crime of vast scale this term loses the sense of the individual human tragedy that takes place countless times as something that would never happen here.” (“Never again”) The movie “Indian School: Stories of Survival” depicts the events of genocide of Indians, aborigines of Northern America. "Indian War" - each of us have heard these words. In the minds of immediately gets familiar from westerns and other adventure picture: train migrants crossing the vast prairie, Indians attacked. Savages on horseback, dressed in colorful national ...

Human rights are not only inalienable, but also universal. The failure of the international community to intervene has resulted in the brutal violations of these rights in multiple states, perhaps best underscored by the on-going conflict and humanitarian crisis in Darfur (United Nations 1; UNICEF 1). Against the background of the Darfur crisis, this paper sets forth the international norms/law on humanitarian intervention, as well as uses international relations theories to determine the legitimacy of intervention in Darfur. It asserts that genocide and other grave (and widespread) crimes against humanity in the region are extreme injustices that threaten humanity ...

Introduction

Henry Kissinger was perhaps one of the most active and important Secretaries of State. His forceful intervention in several questions such as the Vietnam War as well as his propping up of General Gustavo Augusto Pinochet makes him a reviled figure amongst those who have democracy at heart (Bass, p 275). This paper seeks to argue that Kissinger should indeed be hauled in front of an International War Crimes Tribunal largely due to his intervention, covert or non-covert in several mass genocides. Two of these are those in Bangladesh in 1971 where the Pakistani Army was given US backing to ...

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Introduction The Holocaust refers to the mass persecution and genocide of the Jews carried out by the Nazi Party under the rule of Hitler throughout Germany and the territories under German occupation. Not only Jews, Holocaust also claimed the lives of disabled people, homosexuals, Romani populace and prisoners of war. Holocaust is infamous for nearing extermination of the Jewish race with about 5.5. to 6.1 million Jews killed in the massacre. The mastermind of the holocaust was Adolf Hitler who shifted the religious anti-Semitism to racial and ethnic anti-Semitism making use of the mass sentiments against the Jews ...

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Human rights are always respected at all cost and that is a human need. But there are instances where this policy ceases especially when violation comes in. Like in instances of genocide, it is obvious that respect for human rights is never there and in its place reigns disregarded of this fundamental right. In cases like this, it is obvious that the sovereignty of a country is never respected for the sake of the citizens who are subjected to the genocide. It is therefore thought that such interventions are not unacceptable assault on any gi9ven state but rater constructive intervention to ...

Introduction

It is important to look and analyse the politics in Sudan due to the humanitarian need in the country. In Darfur, the Northern Part has been accused of Genocide against the Black Sudanese. The situation is critical. Over 2 million people have been displaced. Over 3 million people in the area are dependent on international humanitarian groups to give them food aid. Many people have been killed, raped and chased from their homeland. They have fled to neighbouring countries such as Kenya to live as refugees in their pursuit of a peaceful environment (Paglia, 2007). The country is wealthy in ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Abstract This paper is on the topic of human rights. It begins by defining human rights. It also mentions important people throughout the history of human rights’ development. The paper speculates on how different countries handle human rights and the violations therein. Finally, the paper assesses what the causes, effects, and solutions are to each country having its own human rights policies.

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Heading: Definition and meaning - Human rights are a more understanding and definition ensuring that humans are allotted basic rights, such as the right to life.

Heading: Historical landmarks/people in Human Rights Development

- Abraham Lincoln – fought a war in order to free the ...

1.Who was Gen. Augusto Pinochet and what did he do on Sept. 11, 1973? He was an army general in Chile and on Sept. 11, 1973 successfully staged a coup of Chile. 2. Who filmed this documentary and how did they gain access to Pinochet's Prisons? A European film crew talked their way into the concentration camps. They filmed many things that they were not supposed to, resulting in some of the only recorded records of what was happening.2. Who were people detained and on what grounds? People were detained if they were perceived to have ...

William J. Clinton Administration

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In 1993, William Jefferson Clinton became the forty-second president of the United States of America. When he came into position he promised that he will end the bad trend that the country is in and that our country will no longer be in a standstill. Instead, he will start a term of rehabilitation. In 1996, Clinton again became the President of America. He believed that by answering the economic problems of the country would be the solution to America’s success. He rallied on to the problems of unemployment and concerns of health care. A lot of controversies aroused during ...

Arguably, Lenn Goodman asserts that some things in life that are just wrong. In “some Moral Minima”, I believe Goodman Lenn has some truth when he says that certain things in the globe are simply wrong. Perhaps, based on human nature, Goodman is absolutely right when he terms some things as simply wrong, these include terrorism, genocide, murder, slavery, rape, incest as well as polygamy. As a matter of fact, this issues go against the freedom and rights of human beings. Killing in by itself wrong, either on moral or legal grounds. There are things in life that does not ...

The issue of race and ethnicity has been a sensitive matter in many governments for many decades. Socio-political aspects combined with economic interest have generated a totally different form of leadership other than the one intended to serve the state and pursue nation building. This new kind of leadership is skewed towards fostering efforts that benefit only a particular ethnic groups or race. The result of such differentiated form of leadership is rampant corruption, violence and in some cases genocide. Several states such as Somalia are now failed states due to political ideologies defined by ethnicity. Africa seems to suffer this problem ...

In "Some Moral Minima," Lenn Goodman argues that there are certain things that are simply wrong. Do you think Goodman is right? Using specific examples, explore the challenges Goodman presents to relativism. Determine whether you think there are such universal moral requirements, and defend your answer in a well-argued three-page paper.

Lenn Goodman is correct that by modern legal and ethical standards, certain actions like murder, rape, genocide, wars of aggression, use of weapons of mass destruction, and slavery are always wrong. To be sure, they were widely practiced in the past and still exist in the present, ...

Abstract

There have been times during which humans have been up against each other. Humans are known to be competitive with each other, a fact that is both advantageous and disadvantageous. An advantage of the fact is that, in terms of economy, the competitive nature of human beings has helped countries move forward and be able to offer their citizens with all that they need. It, however, becomes a disadvantage when greed sets in. There are times when some people feel that they are not complete when they are not ahead of others. This is in most cases reflected in terms of ...

Hotel Rwanda is the portrayal of a violent disagreement between the radical nationalist Hutus, who waged war on the Tutsis. The Tutsis were considered a minority but had still been granted power over the area by the Belgian colonies when they departed. The film follows this disagreement in power and how it brings about discriminations and prejudice, eventually leading to ruthless acts of violence such as genocidal massacres. The film also follows one man, Paul Rusesabagina. He is a Hutu and a successful hotel manager who is doing well for himself and his family. His wife, Tatiana, is a Tutsi. She spends parts of ...

The American movies of the 2000s have been primarily dedicated to such important national and international issues as racism, gun control, poverty, drug abuse and crimes connected with it, as well as ambiguity and, as a result, ineffectiveness of national and international policy that is supposed to solve these and many other social problems. Among the most prominent movies of the decade are the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film Traffic, 2004 Paul Haggis film Crash and 2004 Terry George movie Hotel Rwanda. All three movies are based on completely different stories, but share similar tension born out of the social problems ...

The United Nation can be equated with peace and security, although its objectives are wider and entail promotion of human rights, social and economic development as well as self-determination. Nonetheless, the United Nation is the main collective security institution. The United Nation has a world-wide membership and various competences in security, peace as well as matching powers which entail the capability to make decisions on non-forcible measures as well as authorize various military actions that range from consensual pacification to full scale fighting. The United Nation has an ardent diplomatic function which is often channeled through the United Nation Secretary-General ...

I. Introduction There is no doubt that poor, developing countries are at a disadvantage on the global stage. Whether they suffer from internal difficulties or from suppression by external forces, there is a definite imbalance of power within the global community. Paul Collier, a professor of economics at Oxford University, argues that poor countries get stuck in international relationships that he calls “traps.” These traps come in a variety of different disguises, and must be addressed; however, Collier suggests a number of different methods to “spring” the traps, so to speak, and to spur development in countries whose development is lagging behind. One ...

Introduction

In the history of genocide crimes, the question of responsibility always crops up. International organizations of justice have always argued that responsibility for genocide and war crimes is a collective and individual responsibility. Everyone is responsible in their own right but also it is the duty of the society as a whole to work against forces that would otherwise promote occurrence of war atrocities. This paper is a comparative piece drawing evidences and incidents between the works of Slavenka Drakulic in the book “They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague” and Heda Margolius Kovaly works in ...

Whenever there is no peace, there has to be conflict for these two cannot exist in the same environment. It is for this reason that it is well understood that where one is, the other can never be. This situation can best explain the circumstances in Rwanda and Bosnia a while back. These two countries experienced a couple of years of turmoil because civil war arose which led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people. When such happens, then it is evident there is conflict, and in the presence of such happenings, there is no peace, peace is therefore ...