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GENOCIDE: WHO CARES?

Buck, Isaac D
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146013539

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2006, Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, College of Arts and Sciences - Political Science.
This paper examines six genocides that have occurred since the implementation of the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" in 1951. After studying intervention in each case, a pattern was discerned, separating the genocides that occurred in the Cold War era from the ones that occurred in the post-Cold War era. During the Cold War cases, a capable and interested neighbor intervened to stop genocide in Uganda, Bangladesh, and Cambodia. Each of the three neighbors (Tanzania, India, and Vietnam) acted in self-defense after being attacked by the leadership of the genocidal state. In the three cases studied in the post Cold War era, no international actor intervened to stop genocide in Rwanda, while genocides in East Timor and Bosnia were addressed by the United Nations and intervention followed with varied results. In conclusion, interventions conducted by an interested and attacked neighbor are the most timely, effective responses to genocide. Interventions undertaken by the international community have yielded mixed results, lacking coordination, interest, and political will.
Laura Neack (Advisor)
71 p.
genocide; international intervention; intervention; united nations; rwanda; east timor; bangladesh; east pakistan; cambodia; bosnia; uganda; responsibility to protect; human security

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  • Buck, I. D. (2006). GENOCIDE: WHO CARES? [Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146013539

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Buck, Isaac. GENOCIDE: WHO CARES? 2006. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146013539.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Buck, Isaac. "GENOCIDE: WHO CARES?" Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146013539

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