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GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Unit III. Dem. Rep. of the Congo 5 of 5

Now What Do You Think?
 
 

Now that you’ve completed this unit, how would you answer these questions?

  • Should nations try to prevent one another from backing factions within a country in which human rights violations are taking place?
  • What economic steps should countries and companies take against a government exploiting its own country’s resources?
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International Trade:
Has it Led to the Exploitation of the People of the DRC?


Coltan mining in the Congo River Basin
Conflict and Food Insecurity by Ellen Messer and Marc J. Cohen
Conflicts in Africa: The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo War and the Role of Coltan by Natalie D. Ware, American University
Definitions of Globalization
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Guns, Money and Cell Phones
DRC: Illegal Resource Exploitation and Unregulated Weapons Flows
Do American economic interests threaten democracy in the Congo?
Friends of the Congo: What’s Needed to Prevent the Deaths of Millions More
Globalization
Global Politics: The Globalization of Disease, When Congo Sneezes, Will California Get a Cold?
Mainstream Media: War, Propaganda and the Media
Growth Prospects are Strong, but ... Pressures from Globalization Need More Attention
The Sudan Tribune: Globalization and the African kinship network system: will it sustain?
Sustainable development, a challenge in a globalized environment
UN Condemns Congo Exploitation
UN Panel on Congo Exploitation Calls for Embargo Against Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda

ICC Newsletter, November 2006, #10.
State Department: Background Notes: Democratic Republic of the Congo, June 2007.
Edgerton, Robert B. 2002 The Troubled Heart of Africa: A History of the Congo (New York: St. Martin’s Press).
Human Rights Watch Vol. 15, No. 11(A): Ituri: Covered In Blood, July 2003.
International Rescue Committee and Burnet Institute: Mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Results of a Nationwide Survey, December 2004.
Lemarchand, Rene. 2003. The Democratic Republic of the Congo: From Failure to Potential Reconstruction, in Robert I. Rotberg ed. State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror (Cambridge MA: World Peace Foundation and Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press)
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 2187 U.N.T.S. 90 entered into force July 1, 2002. Articles 6 and 7

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