Honors Midterm Flashcards
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“Know Nothing Party”
Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party.
1648 Treaty of Westphalia
this treaty is often regarded as the beginning of the idea of the nation- state, since for the first time it connected the idea of state powers with the culture and identity of a national community.
Anfal Campaign
A genocidal campaign waged by the Iraqi army in 1988 against its Kurdish population. Mustard gas and nerve agents were used against civilians.
Apartheid
Afrikaans for apartness, it was the segregation of blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was created to keep the white minority in power and allow them to have almost total control over the black majority.
Armenian Genocide
April 24th 1915
deported Armenians from their villages
death marches
1.5 million dead
little to no justice
gov does not recognize it at genocide
justice=memeroil
Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II feared that Americians were not loyal because they were Christian
Art and Transitional Justice
art can be transitional justice
symbolic reparations
documentary theatre that tells victims stories
photo exhibitions
long lasting peace
Buchenwald
German concentration camp, Weimer Germany, 56,000 victims, 13,000 transferred, built by prisoners
turned into a memorial
Cambodia
April 17, 1975 (the Khmer Rouge overthrew Lon Nol)
-Pol Pot, leader
-Goal: communist agrarian utopia
-targets: Educated people like doctors or teachers, —the middle class, ethnic or national minorities, and anyone in opposition to the Khmer Rouge
-1.7 and 2 million Cambodians dead
-The Vietnamese invasion ended the genocide, in 1979
-2001 ECCC courts tries leaders
Constructivism
Identities are not given but social contrasted
Creation of Law of War
international law that regulates the conditions for war (jus ad bellum) and the conduct of warring parties (jus in bello). Laws of war define sovereignty and nationhood, states and territories, occupation, and other critical terms of international law.
Crimes against humanity
a deliberate act, typically as part of a systematic campaign, that causes human suffering or death on a large scale.
Cultural relativism
the practice of judging and understanding a society by its own standards
Dachau
this was the first concentration camp in Nazi, Germany. served as model for other CC camps, 200,000 people were killed here. american freed soldiers
Deaths in Holocaust
11 million ( 6 million jews)
Demagoguery
speech that attempts to win over an audience through appealing to their prejudices and emotions, particularly those of fear, anger, and frustration
Discrimination
unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
Elite manipulation paradigm (Ingelare)
-desire of the Rwandan elite to stay in power
-RPF invasion and the following war, the international power-sharing agreement and the pressure for democratization followed by the birth of the political opposition all threatened the monopoly of power and the privileges of Rwanda’s elite
Empathy
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Empirical
facts
veritable information
proven
excludes basis
Ethnic group
Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics
Gacaca
Community courts established in Rwanda to try low-level officials and ordinary people accused of taking part in the Rwandan genocide. The purpose of these courts was to speed up the process of bringing to justice those who had participated in the genocide and to encourage reconciliation.
Generations of human rights
(1) civil and political rights
(2) economic, social and cultural rights
(3) collective or solidarity rights
Geneva Conventions
a series of international agreements that set rules for proper conduct toward sick and wounded enemy soldiers and the civilians who take care of them
Genocide
Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
Genocide Convention
Treaty declaring illegal any acts intended to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group
Hiroshima
City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.
Human Rights Conventions
convention to figure out what are Fundamental rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled and make a guide line for countries to follow
Ideology
a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
Impunity
immunity from punishment or penalty
In group/out group
In-group: social group with which a person experiences a sense of belonging or identifies as a member
Out-group: social group with which an individual does not identify
Negative feelings towards an out-group are not based on a sense of dislike, but favoritism for the in-group and absence of favoritism for the out-group
Instrumentalism theory
the government contrasts identities. says who is elite , who to fear. they pit groups against each other for political gain
International Committee for the Red Cross (1863)
Henry Dunant set up the International Committee for Relief to the Wounded
International Court of Justice
a court established to settle disputes between members of the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
created to prosecute the Hutu extremists
John Locke
English philosopher who advocated the idea of a “social contract” in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property.
Kosovo
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 1998 and lasted until 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended when NATO intervened by beginning air strikes in March 1999 which resulted in Yugoslav forces withdrawing from Kosovo.
Kurds
Ethnic group that lives in parts of Iraq and Turkey. They often suffer persecution in both countries, and are currently under the protection of the United Nations in Iraq.
League of Nations
an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations, failed
Levels of Analysis
the differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon