>When I started my problem based I wanted to figure out how to eliminate discriminatory practices and racism worldwide. However upon attempting to create a model, be it simple and or complex I drew a blank. I couldn't understand why Craig didn't see what I saw until I tried to produce, I couldn't. I had to continue to brainstorm until the light bulb came on.
My PBL consist of my students having to research the Jewish holocaust and Sudanese Genocide,
I believe my model works. I believe it works because it shows that genocide has occurred and takes into consideration the beginning and end of the process, in addition to the instructions, actions, and decisions that must be made in order to into to eliminate the problem. I would’ve concentrated on a more specific idea versus the general ideas that I was coming up with. I had to change my way of thinking.
Here is a genocide clock that models the total worldwide genocide as of Current Time, summed & extrapolated for the following Communist-occupied nations: Soviet Union (all 15 republics), Red China,
http://www.attacreport.com/ar_diagrams/genocide.php
Students will learn about the Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of an estimated 800,000 people. Over the course of approximately 100 days from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through mid-July, at least 800,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate.[1] Other estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000 [2] (a commonly quoted figure is 800,000) or as much as 20% of the country's total population.
In 1990, a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees called the Rwandan Patriotic FrontUganda. The Rwandan Civil War, fought between the Hutu regime, with support from Francophone nations of Africa and France itself,[3][4] and the RPF, with support from Uganda, vastly increased the ethnic tensions in the country and led to the rise of Hutu Power. (RPF) invaded northern
Students will also learn about The Jewish Holocaust (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστοςholókaustos]: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"),[2] also known as the Shoah (Hebrew): השואה,[citation needed] Romanized ha'shoah; Yiddish: חורבן, Romanized churben or hurban[3]genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany.[4] Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents.[5] By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.[6]
The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Jews and Romanians were confined in overcrowded ghettos before being transported by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were systematically killed in gas chambers. Every arm of Nazi Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal state".
Used from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Holocaust
& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
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Maureen S. Hiebert makes some very valid point in the article
Genocide Prevention: Moral Imperative or Rational Self-Interest?
http://www.preventinggenocide.net/
Like many genocide scholars I got into the field because I was outraged that genocides like the ones in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur, could still happen fifty and sixty years after the Holocaust. I wanted to know two things: why does genocide happen and how can we prevent it from happening again. My outrage that genocide even occurs in the first place was (and still is) fueled by a complete inability, not from an intellectual but from a humanitarian point of view, to comprehend why political elites would ever decide that the right way to solve their problems is to exterminate whole groups of people simply because these people exist and because of who they are. In short, my moral indignation drove my need, both as a scholar and as a human being, to help find a way to wipe out the “old scourge” with a “new name” once and for all.My own understanding of genocide prevention as a moral imperative mirrors that of other scholars, policy-makers, activists, survivors, and interested ordinary people over the last several decades. The idea is simple enough: genocide is morally wrong and ought not to happen anywhere, to anyone, for any reason.The main attempt at making the moral imperative to prevent genocide real came with the crafting and signing of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNGC). As its name plainly says part of the function of the UNGC is supposed to be prevention. Here there is a clear link between a moral imperative - creating what some scholars call an “anti-genocide norm” - and codifying that norm in international law. Thus the states that sign on to the Convention commit themselves to cooperate to “liberate mankind from such an odious scourge” by agreeing to “undertake” steps to prevent genocide, among other things. But the historical record clearly shows that while the UNGC has enjoyed some success in the punishment department sixty years on, states have taken their legal and moral obligation under the Convention to prevent genocide rather less seriously.This experience gave rise, particularly after Rwanda when the major players in the international system were tripping over themselves not to use the “g-word” to describe what was happening, to the idea that if only we could get states to recognize a genocide when one is about to or is already happening and if we can get states to call a genocide a genocide, they might then actually do their moral and legal duty to stop the killing. No such luck. As the Bush administration’s approach to Darfur a few years ago demonstrated in no uncertain terms, it is entirely possible for the most powerful country in the world (and by extension every other country) to call a genocide “genocide” - repeatedly - and still do nothing to stop it. All this despite the concerted effort of several NGOs, student and other activist groups’ appeals to our moral and legal obligations to end the bloodshed.
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I find it appropriate to end this post with a quote from Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Genocide committed against ANY people is an atrocity and horrendous crime against humanity. It brings tears to my eyes when I think about the treatment of certain cultural groups. I hope my genocide model has helped you to better understand a possible way of eliminating genicide worldwide.
A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/genocide.html
UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali undertook a number of reforms at the beginning of his term in 1992, including reorganizing the Secretariat. Many of his structural reforms were concessions to
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