On Tuesday, I went to a talk given at the Fine Arts Library by Dr. Alan Kuperman from the LBJ school at UT. His lecture focused on genocide, particularily the three most recent genocides to take place in Africa: DRC, Rwanda, and Darfur.
Did you know 5 million people were killed in the DRC conflict as compared to the 1 million in Rwanda and the estimated 500,000 in Darfur, yet the DRC has the least "publicity"? I myself was completely oblivious to this fact. Of course, the size of genocide, does not make any ONE instance worse than the other. The real question is, "does publicity really make a difference" when in all three cases publicity did not stop the killing?
Dr. Alan J. Kuperman is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, and the leader of a Pentagon-funded project on Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa. His scholarship focuses on ethnic conflict, U.S. military intervention and nuclear proliferation. He is the author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006).
One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation employing education and hands-on art-making to raise awareness of ongoing humanitarian crises. Students at UT and across the state have contributed hand-made bones to this nation-wide effort. April 28th marks the date of the Road to Washington, a series of mini-installations across the country. From noon - 3 pm, a ceremonial placement of bones will happen on the South Lawn of the state capitol to provide a chance to reflect on the connection we share with those across the globe. For more information, please visit the One Million Bones Texas Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/
The University of Texas Libraries Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) (http://lib.utexas.edu/hrdi) works to preserve and provide access to fragile primary source documentation of human rights struggles worldwide. The Genocide Archive of Rwanda (www.genocidearchiverwanda.
Did you know 5 million people were killed in the DRC conflict as compared to the 1 million in Rwanda and the estimated 500,000 in Darfur, yet the DRC has the least "publicity"? I myself was completely oblivious to this fact. Of course, the size of genocide, does not make any ONE instance worse than the other. The real question is, "does publicity really make a difference" when in all three cases publicity did not stop the killing?
Dr. Alan J. Kuperman is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, and the leader of a Pentagon-funded project on Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa. His scholarship focuses on ethnic conflict, U.S. military intervention and nuclear proliferation. He is the author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion, and Civil War (Routledge, 2006).
One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation employing education and hands-on art-making to raise awareness of ongoing humanitarian crises. Students at UT and across the state have contributed hand-made bones to this nation-wide effort. April 28th marks the date of the Road to Washington, a series of mini-installations across the country. From noon - 3 pm, a ceremonial placement of bones will happen on the South Lawn of the state capitol to provide a chance to reflect on the connection we share with those across the globe. For more information, please visit the One Million Bones Texas Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/
The University of Texas Libraries Human Rights Documentation Initiative (HRDI) (http://lib.utexas.edu/hrdi) works to preserve and provide access to fragile primary source documentation of human rights struggles worldwide. The Genocide Archive of Rwanda (www.genocidearchiverwanda.
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