Online Resources »

Great Decisions 2010 Fall Updates: Kenya & R2P

Fall 2010 Updates provide up-to-date news about Great Decisions 2010 articles.

Mass Atrocities: Preventing Future Outrages

This book by Robert I. Rotberg addresses issues such as methods to combat genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other crimes against humanity. The tenets of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) assert that states have a primary responsibility to protect its citizens. This book demonstrates the difficulty of transferring this into effective preventative measures.

Kenya's New Constitution: Tribal Loyalty Still Wins the Day

Despite the strong endorsement of a new Kenyan constitution, this Economist article reports on the differences between the country’s leading ethnic groups which demonstrates a persistently worrying ethnic polarization of politics.

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Quizzes

Great Decisions 2010 Spring Quiz Series - Kenya and R2P

Online topic quizzes are an ideal test of readers' knowledge of the Great Decisions 2010 articles and the Spring Updates!

Great Decisions 2010 Winter Quiz Series - Kenya and R2P

Online topic quizzes are an ideal test of readers' knowledge of the Great Decisions 2010 articles.

In the Classroom »

UNA-USA - Global Classrooms

Global Classrooms is an innovative educational program with the Model United Nations program at its core. Global Classrooms is distinguished by its robust curriculum and teacher and student resources that develop critical thinking, conflict resolution and communication skills for middle and high school students. Global Classrooms cultivates literacy, life skills and the attitudes necessary for active citizenship.

Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning Conference

The Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning annual conference, titled "Creating Success in a Global Era: A World-Class Education for Every Student," connects educators, business leaders, policymakers and resource providers to share best practices, build partnerships and advance policies to ensure that all students are prepared for work and citizenship in a global era.

From the Right to Intervene to the Responsibility to Protect

This lesson plan from the Carnegie Council allows students to examine the evolution of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine. The lesson plan is the the fifth in a series of six on humanitarian intervention.

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Recommended Readings »

The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All

After the Holocaust, the world vowed it would never again stand by and permit such heinous crimes against humanity. Yet many subsequent atrocities have gone unchecked, all over the world: from the killing fields of Cambodia, to Rwanda, and to Srebrenica. The bloody list continues to grow, led by the unfolding nightmare in Darfur. How and why were the world's best intentions derailed, and what can be done today to put these efforts back on track?

Preventing Genocide: Practical Steps toward Early Detection and Effective Action

In this book, Dr. David Hamburg applies a groundbreaking new perspective the medical model of prevention to the scourge of genocide in the world. Preventing genocide is not only possible, Dr. Hamburg contends, but essential given its high cost in lives, human rights, and international security.

Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity

Drawing on extensive field work and research from around the world, Goldhagen explores the anatomy of genocide—explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them, why they happen so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them.

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