Genocide Project

Genocide or Not? Projects

Essential Question – Is this incident an example of genocide or not? Be sure to describe what happened in this incident (causes, events and outcomes) as well as to prove whether or not it was genocide while refuting the other view.

Genocide, as defined by the United Nations in 1948, means “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including: (a) killing members of the group (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group (c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

Due Date: Friday March 20th (Save to my Hand In Folder and have shared your bibliography to “MBL Honors Modern World History 2B Genocide Proj.” on NoodleBib)

Rubric (Partners share grades, but both must speak and contribute an equal number of points!!):

Content (50%) - Has the question been answered fully?

· Has the item been fully described? (causes, events, and outcomes)

· Has it been fully proven that the event was genocide or not? (per definition given above)

· Has the other point of view (opposite of what you are arguing) been fully refuted?

Performance (25%)

· Is the topic properly introduced?

· Is the audience appropriately engaged? Is the speaker familiar with their topic?

· Is appropriate eye contact, posture and body language employed?

· Is the speaker clearly audible, intoning properly (not monotonously), and pacing appropriately (not a lot of dead air, not frequent use of ‘uh’ or ‘um’?

· Are audio-visuals used? (i.e. do they refer to them when speaking?)

· Is presentation brought to an appropriate close? Do they ask for questions?

Process (25%)

· Is the student well-prepared?

· Does the student use class time wisely?

· Has the student cited their sources correctly using Noodletools? This includes having a bibliography and giving credit where it is due (not only for quotes, images, ideas, etc. You can cite them in the Notes portion of the Powerpoint).

Format: Ideally a PowerPoint, with a minimum of 5 slides (not including a title slide) with most including some visuals

General Resources:

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation by Eric D. Weitz

Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical View edited by Samuel Totten, William Parsons and Israel Charny

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur

http://www.preventgenocide.org/edu/pastgenocides/ - lots on current and past, links to other resources

http://www.yale.edu/gsp/ - links and info

http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/ - (Namibia, Armenia, Ukraine, Holocaust, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda and Bosnia)

http://www.facinghistory.org/

http://www2.facinghistory.org/Campus/reslib.nsf/newbielupublic?openform

http://www.genocidewatch.org/home.html

http://www.ushmm.org/- mostly on the Holocaust, but some other topics are also discussed

http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/hotspots.asp#persecution - data on all, maps on current

http://www.deathreference.com/En-Gh/Genocide.html

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/againsthate/Journal2/GHS103.PDF

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat4.htm

http://www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy-paper-69.html

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/rummel/sod.chap2.htm

http://urbandreams.ousd.k12.ca.us/lessonplans/genocide/index.html

Topics:

1. Darfur/Sudan

Cooper, Helene. "Incentive in Sudan Talks: Normalize Ties With U.S." The New York Times 17 Apr. 2008. The New York TImes. 17 Apr. 2008. 20 May 2008 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/world/ africa/17diplo.html>

Rice, Susan E. The Genocide in Darfur: America must do more to fulfill the Responsibility to Protect. 2007. Opportunity 08. 2007. The Brookings Institute. 20 May 2008 <http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2007/~/media/Files/Projects/Opportunity08/ PB_Darfur_Rice.pdf>.

2. Albanians in Kosovo, 1998

Nessen, Ron, et al. "The Kosovo Crisis: NATO Strikes Serbia." The Brookings Institute: A Foreign Policy Event. The Brookings Institute. 29 Mar. 1999. The Brookings Institute. 20 May 2008 <http://www.brookings.edu/events/1999/0329balkans.aspx>.

3. Tamil in Sri Lanka, 1995-present

4. East Timorese by Indonesia, 1995-2000

"The East Timor Question" edited by Paul Hainsworth and Stephen McCloskey

5. Tutsi in Rwanda, 1994

"We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" by Phillip Gourevitch

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/

6. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-8

7. Iraqi Kurds, 1991-2003

8. Dirty War in Argentina, 1976-83

9. Cambodia, 1975-78

10. Bengalis in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, 1971

11. Uganda under Idi Amin and Milton Obote, 1971-9