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US monitoring will provide information to motivate global responses to genocide – but only US monitoring is reliable enough – we wouldn’t trust information from anyone else
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US monitoring will provide information to motivate global responses to genocide – but only US monitoring is reliable enough – we wouldn’t trust information from anyone elseSamuel Totten, Professor of Curriculum at the University of Arkansas, 2004 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713431069 “The intervention and prevention of genocide: Sisyphean or doable?” June 1, The Journal of Genocide Research
Our framework for this round is the ethical discussion of genocide. Educational discussions will mobilize global coalitions to prevent genocide. Linking this discussion to a policy advocacy is necessary to prevent silence and complicity.Hirsch 02 - Prof. Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University[Herbert, Anti-Genocide- Building an American movement to prevent genocide, pp. 29-31] Our demand to reject genocide has the power to foment movements affirming humanity and ethics in a world characterized by mass violence. Ketels 96 - Associate Prof of English @ Temple University, Director of Intellectual Heritage Program [Violet B., “The Holocaust: Remembering For the Future: ‘Havel to the Castle!’ The Power of the Word, The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science, November 1996, 548 Annals 45, ln] Genocidal Imaging mobilizes political action to solve Kaplan 03 [Naomi, Boston College Third World Law Journal, Spring 2003, 23 B.C. Third World L.J. 359, p. 376-77] In the face of genocide, we are all bystanders with the potential to intervene. Failure to do so constitutes acceptance and complicity.Vetlesen 00 [Arne Johan, Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, July, Journal of Peace Research, “Genocide: A Case for the Responsibility of the Bystander,” p. 520-522] Meadows (All Teams) – Affirmative – USAMRU-K (Mutations Version)Text: The United States federal government should expand surveillance conducted by the United States Army Medical Research Unit Kenya by increasing the number of staff, collecting respiratory specimens from age-matched healthy controls, using multitasking diagnostic equipment, expanding the information systems for sample handling, performing tracheal cultures of birds, and conducting surveillance in school, military, and bird populations Text: The United States federal government should expand surveillance conducted by the United States Army Medical Research Unit Kenya Contention 1 is Pandemic Influenza Current efforts in Asia have been successful, but have not been replicated in Sub-Saharan Africa – Inadequate surveillance increases the risk of a global pandemic Davis ’07 (Mike Davis is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu -- The Guardian (London) - February 7th – lexis) Just when most of us thought it was safe … or any genuine effort to develop a "world vaccine".
Laurance 10/6 (Jeremy, Health Editor, 2007, http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3033350.ece) The bird flu virus H5N1 has mutated into … in the last century – in 1918, 1957 and 1968 – and more are expected. said.
Satish Chandra, Deputy National Security Advisor of India – Center for Strategic Decision Research, 2004 [Global Security: A broader Concept for the 21st Century, 5/7, http://www.csdr.org/2004book/chandra.htm] This scenario, …rate is estimated. << If the possibility of the collapse … with mortality rates of 60 to 70 percent And Kenya is key – Its location along key Bird Migration paths ensures interactions with Humans that increase the risk of mutation – Effective surveillance is key Wairagala Wakabi, 4/18/06 (AllAfrica news correspondent, East Africa: Bird Flu: the Full Scale of the Threat, http://allafrica.com/stories/200604180119.html) THOUGH THE VIRUS THAT CAUSES … much negative environmental impact.
Homeland Security Council, 6/17/07 (National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Implementation Plan One Year Summary, http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/pandemic-influenza-oneyear.html#international) Although the visibility of avian …Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) and two in Cambodia.
Edmonds & Palmore ’06 (Mark Edmonds is the Director of the Centre for Defence and International Security Studies @ the University of Lancaster; Julian Palmore - Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Both are the Editors-in-Chief of Defense and Security Analysis -- Defense and Security Analysis – June 1st – via Taylor & Francis and obtainable through google scholar) Four times a year we, as Editors of … a pandemic. There is no time to waste.
Contention Two is Bioweapons They pose the greatest risk of extinction – Nuclear weapons are easier to control Ochs ’02 (Richard Ochs, ANALYST FOR THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS WORKING GROUP, July 9 2002 -- “BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS MUST BE ABOLISHED IMMEDIATELY” -- http://www.freefromterror.net/other_articles/abolish.html) Of all the weapons of mass destruction,…Human extinction is now possible.
Clare Lopez, 2005 (Clare Lopez is/was: 1. Operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), serving domestically and abroad for 20 years in a variety of assignments, acquiring extensive expertise in counterintelligence, counternarcotics, and counterproliferation issues with a career regional focus on the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Defeo, 06 (Joseph, Captain of the United States Navy, "Joint Medical Readiness: Are We Ready to Answer the WMD Threat?" March 15 http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA449697 p. 7) Having the right people … in any of the current training programs. Training through real-world experience is crucial to creating a strong public health infrastructure that is capable of minimizing the casualties from a bioterrorist attack – Global surveillance programs provide an opportunity for this training Smolinski et al. 03 – Director of the Global Health and Security Initiative at Nuclear Threat Initiative [Marks. Smolinski (Former Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academics of Science and Epidemic Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Margaret A. Hamburg (Vice President for Biological Programs at Nuclear Threat Initiative), & Joshua Lederberg (Directs the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at The Rockefeller University) Editors, Board on Global Health at the institute of the National Academics, Microbial threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response, 3-18-2003, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10636.html] As described earlier, surveillance of and … the workforce to provide both on-the-ground epidemiologic expertise and laboratory capability. << The real-world information and skills … upper-level management positions. The Kenya program provides unique real-world experience that can be acquired no where else Matt Coles, 2005 (CDC Foundation Program Officer, “Perspectives: On-the-Job Training for Disease Detectives in Kenya”, http://www.cdcfoundation.org/frontline/2005/kenya_disease_detectives.aspx) As a health volunteer in the Peace Corps, … who share this passion. Minimizing the death toll is crucial – large casualties ensures a US response that escalates to nuclear war. Conley ’03 (Lt Col Harry W. is chief of the Systems Analysis Branch, Directorate of Requirements, Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley AFB, Virginia. Air & Space Power Journal - Spring 2003 -- http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj03/spr03/conley.html) The number of American casualties suffered due … whatever promises had been made.”48
In 1969 the U.S. Army Medical Research Unit Kenya (USAMRU-K), a special foreign activity … manage the storage and tracking of influenza (as well as all other) specimens. Recent funding increases are insufficient to pay for new programs at the US Army Medical Research Unit in Kenya and force a decrease in operational effectiveness – More staff, Expansion of age-matched surveillance for school and military populations, tracheal cultures in Bird populations, and new multitasking diagnostic equipment are key to solving Institute of Medicine, 9/25/2007 (The Institute provides a vital service by working outside the framework of government to ensure scientifically informed analysis and independent guidance. The Institute provides unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to policy-makers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large. Our work is conducted by committees of volunteer scientists--leading national and international experts--who serve without compensation. Committees are carefully composed to assure the requisite expertise and to avoid bias or conflict of interest. Every report produced by our committees undergoes extensive review and evaluation by a group of external experts who are anonymous to the committee, and whose names are revealed only once the study is published. “Review of the DOD-GEIS influenza programs: Strengthening global surveillance and response”, The National Academies Press) MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING In developing avian influenza/pandemic influenza …equipment for respiratory diseases.
CISET 1996 (An interagency Government working group on emerging infectious diseases was formed in December 1994 under the auspices of the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on International Science, Engineering, and Technology (CISET). Led by CDC, the Department of State, USAID, Food and Drug Administration, NIH, and the Department of Defense, the working group makes the following recommendations for action by the U.S. Government., “Global Microbial Threats in the 1990s,” http://clinton1.nara.gov/White_House/EOP/OSTP/CISET/html/exsum.html) The modern world is a very small place; … to combat infectious diseases.
The alternative creates an all-consuming Colonialistic West and an Angelic South that reentrenches ethnocentrism and create impossible expectations for the South to meet Pascal Bruckner, 1986 (Counts among the best-known French "nouveaux philosophes”, Académie Française Prix 2000 and Medici Prize 1995, The Tears of The White Man: Compassion as Contempt) An ethnologist praying for the extermination of the … is to give in to a loathsome from of blackmail. Disease Securitization mobilizes political action to solve disease and bioterrorism Enemark 05 (Dr. Christian Enemark is a Visiting Fellow of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU where he serves as Deputy Director of the National Centre for Biosecurity.'INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY', The Nonproliferation Review, 12:1, 107 – 125. March 1st – via Taylor & Francis, which is usually obtainable through google scholar) In pursuing international cooperation, a threshold issue is how to … as a weapon of war or terror.5
Global networks assisted in …would far exceed that of SARS. The DOD is critical – It has unique experience and unmatched existing infrastructure Institute of Medicine, 2001 (The Institute provides a vital service by working outside the framework of government to ensure scientifically informed analysis and independent guidance. The Institute provides unbiased, evidence-based, and authoritative information and advice concerning health and science policy to policy-makers, professionals, leaders in every sector of society, and the public at large. Our work is conducted by committees of volunteer scientists--leading national and international experts--who serve without compensation. Committees are carefully composed to assure the requisite expertise and to avoid bias or conflict of interest. Every report produced by our committees undergoes extensive review and evaluation by a group of external experts who are anonymous to the committee, and whose names are revealed only once the study is published. “Perspectives on the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System: A Program Review”, The National Academies Press, http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10203&page=29) Emerging infectious disease surveillance … and global interests alike.
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