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Places at risk for genocide – US Holocaust Museum website Places at risk
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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?
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Burundi / Rwanda / Oregon 10k mi2 10k mi2 100k mi2 $270 $640 $50,000
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Seeds of Genocide Seeds of Genocide On Edge of Horror On Edge of Horror All Hell Breaks Loose All Hell Breaks Loose Killing Continues Killing Continues Evil on Trial Evil on Trial
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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
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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?
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