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1  Places at risk for genocide – US Holocaust Museum website Places at risk

2  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?

3 Burundi / Rwanda / Oregon 10k mi2 10k mi2 100k mi2 $270 $640 $50,000

4  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

5  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

6  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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