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- Meadows BS – Affirmative – Genocide Prevention
- Contention One: Inaction
- But officials have not adopted this public health approach to genocide
- We have an ethical responsibility to examine genocide in its historical context. Personal reflection on the memory of genocide is a critical response to a world of gross human atrocity.
- Contention Two: Genocide
- Harff-Gur 81 [ Northwestern, HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AS A REMEDY FOR GENOCIDE, 37-41]
Colonialism StuffCriticism of representations must come first. They present a superficial “technical fix” ignoring the socially created problem. Lang, Centre for Food Policy, Wolfson Institute of Health Sciences, 2001 (32-38 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5 2BS, United Kingdom, J Epidemiol Community Health 2001;55:162-163, http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/55/3/162) Even if the plan seems positive, it will be hijacked to put a “friendly face” on U.S. Colonial policies—Nicaragua proves Rosset, Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1998 (Peter ,World Hunger: 12 Myths, 2nd Edition, by France Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins and Peter Rosset, with Luis Esparza, Grove/Atlantic and Food First Books, http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/FoodDumping/USAid.asp This colonial order makes extinction inevitable—Our attempts to control and save necessitate wholesale destruction of all things. Santos, director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, 2003 (Boaventura de Sousa, Bad Subjects, Issue #63, April) Vote negative to reject the 1AC’s colonial public health policies—This criticism of development and disease rhetoric allows for us to break from colonial biases. L A Avilés, Departamento de CienciasSociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2000 (“Epidemiology as discourse: the politics of development institutions in the Epidemiological Profile of El Salvador, http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/55/3/164) Their impacts are constructed—They identify the plan as the sole solution to the “third world’s” problems, precluding a deeper understanding of reality. L A Avilés, Departamento de CienciasSociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2000 (“Epidemiology as discourse: the politics of development institutions in the Epidemiological Profile of El Salvador, http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/55/3/164) Meadows BS – Affirmative – Genocide PreventionPlan: The United States federal government should increase a public health approach to genocide prevention by providing post traumatic treatment for genocide survivors, public health surveillance, and data collection to topically designated areas.Contention One: InactionPublic health officials have long recognized that genocide is a public health issueLarson 04 - director of Group Health Cooperative's Center for Health Studies [Eric, “To Prevent, React, and Rebuild: Health Research and the Prevention of Genocide”, Health Services Research, Volume 39 Issue 6p2 Page 2027-2051, December, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4149/is_6_39/ai_n8577395/pg_1] [Since the inauguration of the U.S. Center… based on sound scientific expertise, in addressing the problem]
[Eric, “To Prevent, React, and Rebuild: Health Research and the Prevention of Genocide”, Health Services Research, Volume 39 Issue 6p2 Page 2027-2051, December, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4149/is_6_39/ai_n8577395/pg_1] [Despite such parallel advances in violence prevention method … are critical to a global evolution toward peace and full human potential]
[Historically, the critical factor in obtaining energetic action… whether the requirements for intervention would be harder or easier in the latter case.] We have an ethical responsibility to examine genocide in its historical context. Personal reflection on the memory of genocide is a critical response to a world of gross human atrocity.Herbert Hirsch 95, “GENOCIDE and the Politics of Memory,” THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS Chapel Hill & LondonPg 1-5, 10 Contention Two: GenocideIt is inevitable in Africa – not because of their social conditions, but because of previous outside influenceEkwe-Ekwe 07 – Nigerian political scientist, professor and historian[Herbert, “The making of Africa’s First Genocide,” http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/317/68/] [Precisely because the perpetrators of the Igbo… that threaten annihilation to African existence]
Genocide is the worst consequence – the prohibition of genocide must outweigh political calculations – genocide is the greatest risk on magnitude and probability because it is intentional and potentially universalHarff-Gur 81[ Northwestern, HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AS A REMEDY FOR GENOCIDE, 37-41]Contention Three: Never AgainThe public health approach solves through data collection spreading knowledge about genocide, early warning surveillance and psychological assistance, addressing the long term impacts of genocideBreslow 02 - prof at UCLA School of Public Health [Lester, Encyclopedia of Public Health http://health.enotes.com/public-health-encyclopedia/genocide“Genocide”] [The work that public health professionals do to… made available to refugees and internally displaced persons.]
[George, “Humanitarian responses to mass violence perpetrated against vulnerable populations”, ProQuest, October 14, http://proquest.umi.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/pqdweb?did=8637561&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=17822&RQT=309&VName=PQD, July 1, 2007] Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 2.81 Mb. Share with your friends:
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