Rwanda Genocide Instrumentalism Analysis

When we hear of an ethnic conflict, many thoughts come into our mind. We start thinking of ethnic groups that ever existed in the world. It is a fight within the people of a nation where a group fights among itself. This generally falls under different schools of thought like essentialism and instrumentalism. According to Dewey, instrumentalism is an attempt to form a logical theory of various concepts, of judgments by mainly considering primarily how thought functions in the experimental determinations of the consequences in the future. Essentialism can be said to be an education theory, which states that for any entity there must be some attributes, which are important to its functioning.
The ethnic conflict is mainly caused by outside influences like wealth, power, and resources. The Rwandan genocide was a fight between the Tutsi and the Hutu where a lot of people were killed. According to the author of the video, he focuses on the instrumentalism theory and supports the intervention of the West on the issue. The author of “Ghosts of Rwanda” states that the culture and the way of living of the people is the one that was used to develop the conflict. Moreover, the only way to stop the conflict is to allow the West to intervene. The instrumentalism theory is interested in the way the people live …show more content…
The people had their own goal, and the continued fight was for a function. I think the conflict was for the satisfaction of the ethnic groups of the country and without it, the fight could have been of no value. When you want to take beer, it is for your satisfaction, and if one takes it away from you, you will still want to look for it sometimes late. Therefore, self-discipline is important than the imposed one. The West could have allowed the people of Rwanda to satisfy themselves in the