Final Paper Part 3

3. Part III: Final sociological analysis and recommendations
This final part should provide any final sociological insight you have, and using sociological theory, you should provide suggestions for solving the conflict to conclude your report. Also provide references here. Length should be about 400 words.

The Geneva Convention held after the holocaust in 1945 defined genocide, and the leaders there promised the world, “Never Again”. This has proven to be one of the greatest broken promises in history; as any genocide maven will tell you, “Again and Again” seems to be the more accurate phrase. “Never Again” is not beyond human nature, but seems unattainable because “to many of us like to cause harm, and to few care enough to prevent it”.
Why is it that even when the world is informed, and in this day and age has all the technology needed to see proof of the genocide, such as interviews, pictures, films, and journalist accounts, one cannot do so much as even spread the word. Over 50% of people that I have personally discussed the content of my paper with had never before even heard of the genocide. Enough public pressure alone could convince the government to take decisive action. As people living in the United States, we are given a voice. If enough people could learn to use that voice towards a collective goal, we could be heard. Although not all of the public may be properly informed, it is those that choose media content, or the viewers who watch it that are responsible for the vital content omitted. Case in point: why is it that there are more reporters in Africa to get coverage on Angelina Jolie’s baby, when just a few hundred miles away desperate refugees are crying out for their voice to be heard, for someone to listen. What does this say ? Aside from the political aspects and the hardcore facts surrounding this atrocity, one must take a step back from the barriers that keep people from identifying with those in Africa. Take away country boarders, language barriers, and color; all you have left is our brothers, a person who is a mother, a father, a sister, a friend, a spouse, and an unpredictable possibility for our future. All that is left is people, citizens of the world equal to you or me. These people with the same fundamental needs, desires, and fears as anyone else, are being chased from their homes, starved, raped, murdered, robbed, their villages burnt to the ground. These are not just news articles here, a picture of a face with sad, lonely eyes there. These are real people.

Source:

Darfur: a new history of a long war by Julie Flint

http://www.savedarfur.org/

http://www.eyesondarfur.org/