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Meadows BS – Affirmative – Genocide Prevention

Plan: 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: Inaction Public health officials have long recognized that genocide is a public health issue

Larson 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] But officials have not adopted this public health approach to genocide

Larson 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] [Despite such parallel advances in violence prevention method … are critical to a global evolution toward peace and full human potential] And political calculation prevents US Action suppressing mobilization, global action and prevention of genocide creating a cycle of non-evaluation which denies our responsibility. Kaufmann 02 – Associate Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University [Chaim, “See No Evil: Why America Doesn't Stop Genocide,” Foreign Affairs, July/August, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20020701fareviewessay8526/chaim-kaufmann/see-no-evil-why-america-doesn-t-stop-genocide.html] [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 & London

Pg 1-5, 10 Contention Two: Genocide It is inevitable in Africa – not because of their social conditions, but because of previous outside influence Ekwe-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 universal Harff-Gur 81 [ Northwestern, HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AS A REMEDY FOR GENOCIDE, 37-41]

Contention Three: Never Again The public health approach solves through data collection spreading knowledge about genocide, early warning surveillance and psychological assistance, addressing the long term impacts of genocide

Breslow 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.] Primary prevention through public health mechanisms solves best – information gained from early warning and data collection builds political will, and stops genocides well before they occur Gellert 95 - Deputy Health Officer for the Orange County, California Health Care Agency [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] 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

Samuel 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 Disregard their US bad cards- they don’t assume The US Genocide Prevention Task Force which enhances response through expertise Hollinger 07 – United States institute of peace [Andrew, “Genocide prevention task force,” http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/taskforce/press/?content=2007-11-13] 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]