Bosnian Genocide

Legislative measures, as well as grassroots movements can also play a role in increasing female political representation. Many legislative measures, although not related to political representation directly, have been put in place to increase the autonomy of women and move closer towards gender equity. These laws focus on three main areas that most influence gender inequality—institutions (i.e. social norms and markets), households and families, and the economy. “Households and families shape…

even the recent past, can affect identity. This is the first year students are taught about things that happen in the world. In Grade 10 you are taught about how eurocentrism affected Africa, and eventually was a factor in causing the Rwandan Genocide. Students are encouraged to think deeply and critically about how this would affect the Rwandan people’s identity. Then students are taught about how Francophones effect Canada’s national identity, and are once again encouraged to think…

Since the end of the 1994 genocide, the guilt card consistently has been used as an explanation of Rwandan foreign policy. While it might no longer be the dominate narrative, it still exists within more recent literature. There are multitude of academic scholars, such as Pottier , Reyntjens , Hayman and Lemarchand , who write on how the implementation of the genocide guilt card concept as one of the key policy tools for power within Rwanda’s arsenal of interacting with the international…

deeds. This region would be African and Arabic countries. Somalia and Rwanda are two countries that stand out in particular due to the recent turmoil. The Rwandan genocide is an example of one ethnic group slaughtering another. This is similar to another lesser known, but longer lasting genocide called the Somali Genocide. The Somali genocide started as clan warfare after the fall of Siyad Barre and his regime. The barbaric events occurred over a span of 21 years (1988-2009). It was in 2009 that…

How can racism influence genocide? Racism can exist without genocide so it does not actually lead to genocide. The real question is can genocide exist without racism? First there needs to be a clear definition of these two terms. Racism can be defined in many ways. It is the idea that ones race, ethnicity, or nationality is superior to another race, nationality, or ethnicity. In cases of genocide White’s (2009) definition of racism is more appropriate, it is any activity by individuals, groups,…

than one state is intervening and unilateral is when one state is intervening. The International Institutions can be involved, like the United Nations but it will take longer for the intervening and they don’t take sides. For example, in the Rwandan genocide situation, it took a while for the UN to arrive and inforce the peacemaking but they were too late. Multilateral actions can be useful when it comes to intervening when there’s a huge problem with a state because the state can get more…

Comparing different theories of genocide is beneficial because it shows that people are intrigued in understanding the things that still plague some of our societies today. In the later stages of the post-Holocaust twentieth century, the plea to never allow genocidal acts largely went ignored. Throughout the years there have been many inhumane acts carried out in numerous countries and there have been many scholars who have been trying to figure out why people continue to do such terrible things…

Colonia Dignidad Did the establishment of Colonia Dignidad have positive or negative impacts on Chilean society? It will be argued that the objectives for the establishment of Colonia Dignidad led to long-term impacts that were not morally justifiable. Amidgst a beautiful scenic view of farmlands and forests in the foothills of the Andean Mountains, was the home to almost 230 German immigrants. They were part of the congregation, who in 1961, followed an Evangelical preacher called Paul…

Film review by Artem Palamarchuk PD120514 The Armenian Genocide is documentary film about cruel historic event that happened in 1915 where Turkish government committed that crime. The length of the film is one hour in which as in every documentary films the professors, writers, and simply people were sharing their knowledge about that event. In the introduction part of the film the look was taken on who was the Armenians and their ancient history as well as was explained their culture and…

Throughout history the world has experienced countless acts of mass violence and brutality. That being said few of these instances have rivaled that of the Rwandan genocide. In the early days of April 1994 until mid July of that same year upwards of 800,000 people were murdered, a rate that surpassed the Nazis in their killing of the Jews during the Holocaust. The perpetrators of these murders were a Rwandan ethnic group called the Hutu and their victims were not only of a separate ethnic…