POLB91H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Osama Bin Laden, Hutu, Tutsi
Document Summary
Little to do with ancient hatred, more complex. Causes: colonial legacies: european colonization set the stage for ethnic conflict. One tends to be weaker and thus loses out: weak political institutions: the inability of political institutions to effectively manage differences, thus resulting in violence, transition to democracy: major change in the status quo. Designed to protect the rights of all participants. Secession: separation of an ethnic group in order to form a new country. Peacekeeping/outside intervention: involvement of international forces in domestic affairs. Reconcilitation: truth commissions or war crimes trials in order to establish accountability and rebuild social truth (ie: dec 2008, former senior defense official from. Triggered in april 1994, rwandan president (hutu) dies, conflict breaks out between the. Tutsi and hutu people, a huge massacre occurs, 800 000 people are killed in three weeks, exceeding the numbers of the holocaust.
