Genocide and human rights in Africa

Genocide and Human Rights in Africa Student Name Institution Course Professor Date Ethics of Studying Mass Violence The contributions of the study of genocide and human rights in Africa and the Diaspora offer missing perspectives by foregrounding the issue of race, colonialism, and world power imbalances. Instead of a framing of mass violence as irrational/cultural, this approach exposes the means of creating harm as institutions, law, and knowledge systems. Straus (2014) asserts that genocide is a process that takes political choices and the growing risk factors, rather than a spontaneous outbreak of hatred. This framework assists in revealing how violence may be normalized even before it becomes a genocide. The TED-Ed (2022) video show this on the global eugenics movement. If there is forced sterilization of poor women of color in the United States, the combination of scientific authority and state power resulted in the legitimacy of racialized violence without mass murder. This case narrows the definition of genocide and helps Straus lay out his argument that bureaucratic routine and legal rationalization could lead to a ruinous outcome in the long ru...