POL300H1 Lecture Notes - Transitional Justice
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Genocide results from a conjunction of influences and actions widely present in the world today (david newbury: cant marginalize it. Genocide is driven by the conditions of the present as well as drawing on the legacies of the past. Factors creating tribunals: government foreign policy, government national and multi-national corporations. Huge implications of setting up tribunals to deal with war crimes: implications on canadian citizens, neighboring nations etc. Economic crises can result in atrocities as well as structural justice programs (imf conditions for loans meant privatizations of social programs such as health care and education: largely western policies enforced on developing countries for aid. Imposing democracy in return for aid can lead to instability because of threatening of the elite can lead to abuse of power and lead to violence. Distinguish between cause of conflict and what form it took: political problems not ethnic ones. We should not see these events as historically unique.