Deck 7: Economics of Genocide

Question 1

What does the term genocidaire mean?

Answer 1

The French term genocidaires means "those who commit genocide" and was used during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 to describe a group of people who view the killing of a certain group of people as eliminating "the problem," plan genocide, and initiate the ideas passed on to those who commit genocidal acts.

Question 2

What is the role of the majority and the minority in a genocide?

Answer 2

Genocide involves the killing and destruction of a group of people with less political and social power (the minority) by those who hold power (the majority).

Question 3

What is genocide?

Answer 3

The United Nations (1946) defines genocide as "killing members of a group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." Vahakn Darian (1975) states that, "Genocide is the successful attempt by a dominant group, vested with formal authority and/or with preponderant access to the overall resources of power, to reduce by coercion or lethal violence the number of a minority group whose ultimate extermination is held desirable and useful and whose respective vulnerability is a major factor contributing to the decision of genocide."

Question 4

What is the Genocide Convention and what are the five activities it uses to define genocide?

Question 5

How is holocaust different from genocide?

Question 6

What is the role of genocidaires?

Question 7

What is the role of perpetrators of genocide?

Question 8

What is the role of bystanders of genocide?

Question 9

What is the international community and what is its role in terms of genocide?

Question 10

What is an atrocity?

Question 11

What is a mass murder?

Question 12

What is forced deportation/forced population transfer/forced migration?

Question 13

What is ethnic cleansing?

Question 14

How are systematic rape and biological subjugation used as weapons of genocide?

Question 15

What is economic subjugation?

Question 16

Why is economic subjugation an important part of genocide?

Question 17

What is eliminationism?

Question 18

What are the five principle forms of eliminationism, according to Daniel Goldhagen?

Question 19

Why is it difficult to classify a particular genocide by type?

Question 20

What are some of the types of genocide?

Question 21

What are the ten developmental stages of genocide, according to Gregory Stanton?

Question 22

What is Stage IX of genocide (according to Gregory Stanton) and which countries are currently listed at this stage?

Question 23

What is Stage VIII of genocide and which countries are currently listed at this stage?

Question 24

What part of United States federal law is related genocide and what does the Code set in place?

Question 25

Which federal office in the United States is charged with handling mass atrocities?

Question 26

What are the four reasons that Samantha Power gives for inaction by U.S. leaders against genocide?

Question 27

What trials led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court and what international agreements were the based on the findings of these trials?

Question 28

What are war crimes?

Question 29

How are crimes of peace different than crimes of humanity?

Question 30

What was the first conviction for genocide?

Question 31

How is human rights law different than international humanitarian law?

Question 32

What are the roles of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the international law commission (ILC)?

Question 33

When was the term genocide first used?

Question 34

Why might Rome's destruction of Carthage in 146 BC be considered the first genocide?

Question 35

What are some of the databases related to genocide?

Question 36

What are social cleavages and how can they increase opposition between groups?

Question 37

What are the five main actors in genocide?

Question 38

What are the characteristics of genocidaires, according to Ben Voth?

Question 39

What are the interests of the genocidaires?

Question 40

How is micro space related to genocide?

Question 41

What are the choices of the bystander of a genocide?

Question 42

What are the goals of perpetrators of genocide as they related to bystanders?

Question 43

What are some of the limits that genocidaires create to limit the choices of their victims?

Question 44

What are some of the initial decisions of the international community related to genocide?

Question 45

How is redistribution of scarce resources related to genocide?

Question 46

What is net benefit?

Question 47

How is scarcity shown on a graph of allocation between two groups?

Question 48

How is a barrier to access of a resource shown on a graph?

Question 49

How is net benefit maximized between two groups on a graph?

Question 50

What happens to net benefit on a graph when income constraints are imposed against victims of genocide?

Question 51

What happens to net benefit on a graph when cost shocks lead to an increase in costs for victims of genocide?

Question 52

What are some of the areas where costs are imposed on the victims of genocide?

Question 53

In what ways does a nation's economy suffer due to genocide?

Question 54

What costs may be incurred by the perpetrators of genocide?

Question 55

What are some of the costs to victims of genocide?

Question 56

Who are the main beneficiaries of genocide?

Question 57

What are the four areas in which perpetrators of genocide may gain benefit from committing genocide?

Question 58

What incentives are needed to prevent bystanders from becoming perpetrators of genocide?

Question 59

How does the type of genocide affect the tools needed to stop (or prevent) the genocide?

Question 60

What services are needed to help survivors of genocide become productive citizens?

Question 61

What services are needed to help perpetrators of genocide become productive citizens?

Question 62

How does redistribution of resources play a role in the outcome of genocide?

Question 63

What incentives are needed to get the international community to become involved in the prevention and stopping of a genocide?