How does genocide affect the economy

People should consider peace instead of violence because the benefits they get are very minimal if any, compared to the costs incurred both short term and long term. Investors also will always avoid such countries since they would not want to risk their businesses, hence declining employment opportunities leading to poverty. Although, the country is trying to rebuild the economy with the help of World Bank and donations from other European nations, there is imbalance of payment with the propensity of consumption superseding the propensity to produce or save.

The genocides that have occurred are a lesson for the modern society to avoid such events as they can feel effects. In some places the changes in population is so high that there is no people to work while others do not see the reason to since they have lost their hope in living.

Socially, women, young girls and children are the most affected group in society when genocide occurs considering there has been no genocide where rape has not occurred and children have not been orphaned. Rape is often used as a genocide weapon with women and young being the victims.

Most of these women are infected with deceases such as AIDS and others which that they suffer for the rest of their lives; furthermore their husbands are killed living them as the sole breadwinners of their families. During the holocaust very many women were murdered, because the Nazis did not need them for labour and also not forgetting that they were the main perpetuators of the future generations of Jews who Nazis wanted to completely eliminate from the planet.

The Men escaped and often left the women and children alone hence making women the providers of their families in the harsh conditions. In Bosnia the genocide was against the muslin population and men who were murdered living women as the care takers of families.

These women live in psychological trauma because of the painful experiences they suffered during the genocide. They were brutally beaten and raped in prison camps hotels houses and also in the open, most of them have not achieved justice and to make the situation worse they are still discriminated due to this happenings. Those that have survived trauma live in poverty with no one to feed them. Young girls are married to old well-off men to escape their poverty trap while orphaned children do menial jobs for survival.

In Rwanda, there were over half a million rapes that occurred during the genocide, and the women have been left stigmatized, their husbands left them due to the rape.

Others suffer from aids syphilis, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases with some resulting to abortions due to rape unexpected pregnancies Mackinnon Just imagine, polygamy was illegal in Rwanda before the Genocide but the government has considered changing this because the number of widows is very high with most of them being either sick or too weak to support their families.

Many children were orphaned, and left depressed due the terrifying experiences they underwent seeing their parents being murdered. Families headed by children are common. It is clear that for this people genocide is not yet over because they still suffer because it Kiernan, Psychologically the modern society has a lot to handle from the genocides because some people lost their families or even watched them being murdered or tortured hence living them depressed.

It is very unfortunate because victims of genocide have not been assisted in any way in most countries that have experienced it; neither the government nor the international community has done much to help them. Many Women in Bosnia cannot keep jobs today because of their mental conditions and some of them often get very angry or easily irritated.

There are also many suicides that take place for the same reason because people feel they can not deal with the pain any more. The society therefore has an obligation to take care of these people for them to survive to the future.

In some countries ethnic groups still hold grudges against others, they want compensation while others cannot trust each other, for instance the Tutsi and Hutus of Rwanda, people can no longer trust each other despite the reconciliation programs organized by the UN because they fear the occurrence Weitz, In conclusion, genocide just like any other crime should be prevented by taking effective measures, so that it does not happen ever again in the modern society.

Although, the International Community has tried to stop genocide, it has not achieved a lot instead it always find itself trying to punish the perpetrators of the occurrence which take year to prosecute taking into consideration that most of them go to exile after the event.

This is because of the complex procedures and rules that govern the international community and also impunity that exist among the leaders. This is a major step in preventing genocide but preventing it can only be achieved through first understanding what causes it and the motivations toward it. This involves; studying ethnic differences their causes and effects on a population, also studying various political systems and determining which are most likely to cause anarchy in a nation, for instance totalitarian governments and counties with high poverty levels form a perfect recipe for genocide.

Religions also play a major role in preventing genocide; they should be able to teach their congregations about morals, anger control, and peaceful coexistence. Beyond all this it is a personal responsibility for individuals to stop genocide and support the peace organizations in place to foster peace in our societies Andreopoulos Andreopoulos, George. Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kakar, Hassan. Berkeley: University of California Press, Kiernan, Ben. New Haven: Yale University Press. Gallen, Switzerland. Corresponding author: Department of Economics, University of St. E-mail: roland. Oxford Academic. Google Scholar. Revision received:. Select Format Select format. Permissions Icon Permissions. Abstract Cross-country studies on the economic consequences of internal political violence typically find short-run effects that are not very large, and no evidence for full economic recovery.

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