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This page presents the full text of a variety of excellent articles, each seeking to explore the varying opinions in a balanced pros/cons debate. The topics addressed within many of the articles serve to encourage critical thinking and issue awareness by providing opposing views on contentious issues.


 

Genocide

 1. Achieving Justice and Ethnic Reconciliation in Rwanda.

2. Bosnia: An Ethnic Battleground.

3. Defining Genocide.

4. An Early Warning System Can Prevent Genocide

5. Extreme Poverty Led to the Rwanda Genocide.

6. Favoritism by the Roman Catholic Church Led to the Rwanda Genocide.

7. Genocide at the Cambodian Killing Fields.

8. Genocide Did Not Occur in Kosovo.

9. Genocide Did Occur in Kosovo.

10. Genocide Is Not Occurring in Darfur.

11. Genocide Is Occurring in Darfur

12. Hitler's Final Solution

13. How People Are Persuaded to Commit Genocide.

14. The Japanese Military Committed Genocide in Nanking, China

15. The Need for a Permanent International Criminal Court.

16. The Ottoman Government Committed Genocide Against the Armenians.

17. A Permanent International Criminal Court Should Be Created.

18. A Permanent International Criminal Court Would Be Counterproductive.

19. The Persistence of Genocide.

20. The Persistence of Human Brutality.

21. Psychosocial Dissonance Contributed to the Cambodian Genocide.

22. Racial Discrimination by the Khmer Rouge Contributed to the Cambodian Genocide.

23. Remembering the Jewish Holocaust Can Prevent Future Genocides.

24. The Sudanese Government Engages in Genocide.

25. The United Nations Must Intervene to Prevent Nuclear War Between Pakistan and India.

26. The United States Should Intervene in Darfur.

27. The United States Should Not Intervene in Darfur.

28. War-Crimes Tribunals Must Punish Those Responsible for Genocide in Rwanda

 

Torture

Torture Should Be Legalized and Regulated

Torture Must Be Permitted in Certain Terrorism Cases to Save Innocent Lives

Torturing Prisoners in the War on Terror Is Never Justified

The CIA Tortures Prisoners in the War on Terror

The Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Was Committed by a Few Disobedient Soldiers

The United States Is a Dangerous Rogue

Rape Is Often Used as a Weapon of War

How Should the United States Treat Prisoners in the War on Terror?

Is Torture Ever Justified?

The CIA Kidnaps Suspects and Sends Them to Third Countries to Be Tortured

U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations'

Preface to "How Should Wars Be Conducted?"

"Stress and Duress" Techniques Are Forms of Torture