Darfur and the Genocide Debate. Scott Straus.
by Straus, Scott; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 50Human Relations. Publisher: Foreign Affairs, 2005ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Genocide | Human rights | Human rights -- Sudan | Humanitarian intervention | Sudan -- History -- Civil War (1983- ) -- AtrocitiesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The lessons from Darfur...are bleak. Despite a decade of handwringing over the failure to intervene in Rwanda in 1994 and despite Washington's decision to break its own taboo against the use of the word 'genocide,' the international community has once more proved slow and ineffective in responding to large-scale, state-supported killing. Darfur has shown that the energy spent fighting over whether to call the events there 'genocide' was misplaced, overshadowing difficult but more important questions about how to craft an effective response to mass violence against civilians in Sudan." (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) The author contends that the situation in Darfur "shows that a genocide debate can divert attention from the most difficult questions surrounding humanitarian intervention."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Darfur and the Genocide Debate, Jan./Feb. 2005; pp. 123-133.
"The lessons from Darfur...are bleak. Despite a decade of handwringing over the failure to intervene in Rwanda in 1994 and despite Washington's decision to break its own taboo against the use of the word 'genocide,' the international community has once more proved slow and ineffective in responding to large-scale, state-supported killing. Darfur has shown that the energy spent fighting over whether to call the events there 'genocide' was misplaced, overshadowing difficult but more important questions about how to craft an effective response to mass violence against civilians in Sudan." (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) The author contends that the situation in Darfur "shows that a genocide debate can divert attention from the most difficult questions surrounding humanitarian intervention."
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