PEACEST 2A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Croats Of Bosnia And Herzegovina, Conflict Transformation, Tutsi

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Peace Studies
• Course: PEACEST 2A03
• Professor: Diane Enns

Document Summary

This paper will aim to examine the politicization of identity and the role this politicization played in the violent conflict in rwanda. In addition, as a member of a conflict transformation organization working at the community level in rwanda, amartya sen"s solution to the problem of identity will be evaluated. Moreover, sen"s solution will be examined through two strategies that will aim to implement this solution. The politicization of identity is defined as when an identity becomes the object of some political goal, at the worst, in order to separate a particular group for the ultimate goal of elimination (genocide). This entails dehumanization, which means to render a group or individual as less than human, without dignity, worthless. In the case of rwanda, the genocide occurred in 1994 in which 800,000 tutsis were brutally killed. Most of the perpetrators were hutus, however hutus lives were lost as well.