Places at risk for genocide – US Holocaust Museum website

Genocide, Human Rights and Intervention

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?

Morality and intervention

The Genocide in Rwanda Burundi / Rwanda / Oregon10k mi2 10k mi2 100k mi2$270 $640 $50,000

Seeds of Genocide

On Edge of Horror

All Hell Breaks Loose

Killing Continues

Evil on Trial

The Genocide in Rwanda

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

Are these similar or different?

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?

If you think we should do something, what should we do?