Darfur: Progress Report 3

Maeve Mallozzi-Kelly

Prof. Horowitz

INTL-I 204

10-10-12

Progress Report 3: Personal Research Summary

            My responsibility for the Darfur project is to research why the UN became concerned about Genocide and how they’ve been implementing their legislation on the issue ever since. I may use some specific examples of other cases of genocide and compare them to the one in Darfur so the class will understand why the UN acted differently in different situations. I will use Rwanda, because the class is already familiar with that example, and Cambodia, because I’m assuming not many people know much about this situation. I’ve already looked at a few articles, both academic and popular, about the situations surrounding both of these Genocides, one of which was John Mueller’s article “The Banality of ‘Ethnic War’”. This article is really helpful in understanding the difficulty in defining genocide especially in regards to what happened in Rwanda. Along with this research I have also looked at the “ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” and intend on including key points in the power point and focusing on how the UN either honors them or not and why.