I was naive when I picked this topic and thought that the causes of Genocide would be straight forward and fit nicely into an essay. However there are so many things that contribute to Genocide. I have therefore decided to focus just on the Rwandan Genocide and examine what caused the Rwandan Genocide. However a lot of the aspects of what caused the Rwandan Genocide are still important and relevant to other Genocides. I’m still doing a lot of reading and currently think that I will include the following.
1) History and socio-cultural factors which lead up to the situation
· Use of aggression in past and as a normative problem solving skill
· Strain on resources (economic situation)
· Lack of acceptance for cultural diversity
2) The Elite and Powerful
· Rich want to be richer and want to made the poor poorer
· Rwandan rulers feared losing heir own power
· Propaganda
· All genocides in history have been instigated, organised, and legitimised by the state.
3) Social Psychological Factors – why individuals follow or be a part of the Genocide
· Lots of people in
· Obedience
· Confirmatory bias
· In groups and out groups “us” and “them”
· Heuristics
2 comments:
thank you very much, it was very interesting im studying genocide at AS level and the outline was very useful =)
thank you very much, it was very interesting im studying genocide at AS level and the outline was very useful =)
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