PSCI 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: United Nations General Assembly, Homicide, Hutu
8 Jun 2018
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Week 10
March 16, 2018
Political violence and Genocide: human Rights and humanitarian interventions
Recap- Revision questions
• Is global civil society really global?
- Global in the way because we are connected.
- Such as environmental issues, local different struggle, but also globally, it touches
different lands and scape.
- We imagine the we all share all the same issues.
• What are the main role of global civil society actors and organizations?
- Doctors without border they provide aid and help other people in different countries
in the developing world.
- Making changes on the local level→ such as empowering women.
- They are trying to present social norms. Subject to interpretation. They also take the
knowledge and provided to everyone. Realizing the core of the problem and
understanding how they should be solved.
• Should civil society groups be given a role in deliberation of an environmental body such
as the United Nations? Should they play an active and permanent role at the human rights
council, for instance? Why or why not?
- Who are the representing, how do we pick which one in the role in deliberating in the
UN, because they are not elected, would they have technical expertise doing their
work?
• In Mary Kaldor’s article, she argues that transnational civil society should be conceived
as a political project. What does she mean by that? Why does it mean in terms of thinking
about global citizenships?
• What are the main criticism we can address to global civil society actors such as INGOs?
- They are more western and secular, they also work with the power because they work
with government. the democratic deficit, they are not elected by the population, what
the right they have to speak in the name of the population.
• Is there a danger of civil society actors being coopted when they are close to power
holders such as governments? Where would you see yourself as a HR activist? Outside
protesting or inside negotiating?
Genocide in Numbers
• Holocaust: between 6 to 10 million were killed.
• Ukrainian Genocide (1932-33): 7 million
• Cambodian Genocide 1975-1979: between 1 to 3 million
• Armenian Genocides 1915-1922: 700,000 to 1.5 million
• Rwandan Genocide 1994: between 700,00 and 1 million killed
What is Genocide?
• The term did not exist before 1944.
• The creation of a new legal concept
- 1944: polish Jewish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin 1900-1959 coined term.
- Word Geno= race or tribe in Greek→ it is not about political party but an ethnic
erasing.
- Cide: Latin word for killing
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Document Summary
Political violence and genocide: human rights and humanitarian interventions. Global in the way because we are connected. Such as environmental issues, local different struggle, but also globally, it touches different lands and scape. Doctors without border they provide aid and help other people in different countries in the developing world. Making changes on the local level such as empowering women. They are trying to present social norms. They also take the knowledge and provided to everyone. Who are the representing, how do we pick which one in the role in deliberating in the. In mary kaldor"s article, she argues that transnational civil society should be conceived as a political project. What is genocide: the term did not exist before 1944, the creation of a new legal concept. 1944: polish jewish lawyer raphael lemkin 1900-1959 coined term. Word geno= race or tribe in greek it is not about political party but an ethnic erasing.
