6/25 Genocide

Thursday June 25th, 7pm Kaldi's Cafe

Questions to think about as you read these articles

1. Do you think that international actors have failed the victims of genocide?

2. What are the technical downfalls for defining genocide?

3. Does peacekeeping work? What about mandates and funding?

4. What do you think of the Responsibility to Protect idea? Is it overwhelmingly idealist?

5. What roles can activist play? What other actors should be involved that are not included?

Further reading: Ellie Wiesel, Samantha Powers, John Prendergast and Don Cheadle, Phillip Gourevitch, NY Times articles by Nicholas Kristof

What is genocide? (Everyone read this one)

Please see post below- Genocide 101

Geographic locations of genocide past/hot zones

1 Armenia genocide

http://www.asbarez.com/2009/05/29/from-san-diego-to-sacramento-one-man%E2%80%99s-genocide-commemoration/

2 Sri Lanka

http://www.tamilsydney.com/content/view/2231/37/

3. Areas of concern

http://www.genocideintervention.net/educate/crisis/overview

Video (short)

1. Srevrenica Genocide (Bosnia) by Ron Haviv

http://srebrenica-genocide.blogspot.com/2009/05/video-ron-haviv-eyewitness-testimony.html

2. Don Cheadle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKOYd3cfdU&NR=1

3.Morenohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yWScO08vl8&feature=channel_page

4.Stand video: 100 Days http://www.youtube.com/user/StandAntiGenocide

Peacekeeping

1.Peacekeeping 101

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacekeeping

2.United Nations Peacekeeping History

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1988/un-history.html

3. Darfur peacekeeping mandates

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL142491420080801?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Movements/activism/educational articles

1. Darfur Experts Debate Conflict: Alex De Waal vs John Prendergast (Everyone read this one)

http://www.newsweek.com/id/69004

2. A list of legislation that has been passed (I worked on Genocide Accountability Act and Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act 2007)

http://www.darfurscores.org/darfur-legislation

3. Genocide Intervention Network-The Responsability to Protect (R2P)

http://p2p.genocideintervention.net/educate/r2p

4. China's genocide Olympics

http://www.savedarfur.org/newsroom/clips/chinas_genocide_olympics/

5. Militarism, Ethnicity, and Sexual Violence in the Rwandan Genocide (read the Bea Gallimore part, it starts on page 9)

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=121f67d07affed47&mt=application%2Fpdf

Refugee

1 Department of Homeland Security Report 2008 (sort of technical but interesting)

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_rfa_fr_2008.pdf

Infrastructure

1.Rwanda's rebuilding efforts

http://allafrica.com/stories/200906020560.html

Trauma

1. Doctors group find rape common against Darfur women...

http://blog.taragana.com/n/doctors-group-finds-rape-common-against-darfur-women-urges-international-warrants-67990/