Unit 6: Modern World History
Lesson C: Research - Challenges of the Modern World
Activity 7: Global Responses to Humanitarian Crisis
Big Question: Will international cooperation allow us to put an end to suffering?
Possible Subtopics:
- Killing Fields in Cambodia
- Attacks against Bosnian Muslims
- Tutsis in Rwanda
- Genocide in Darfur
- Role of World Court and International Law
- Trial of Milosevic
- Famine in Somalia
- Red Cross/Red Crescent
- UN Peacekeeping Missions
- UNICEF
Resources
- Trial of Milosevic
- NY Times Coverage of Slobodon Milosevic, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/slobodan_milosevic/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=milosevic&st=cse
- In Depth Obituary of Slobodan Milosovic, The Guardian, 3/06 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/mar/13/guardianobituaries.warcrimes
- Milosevic Public Trial Archive, http://hague.bard.edu/
- Serbian War Criminals: Slobodan Milosevic Profile, The Telegraph, May, 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/serbia/8538575/Serbian-war-criminals-Slobodan-Milosevic-profile.html
- Review of Milosevic's Yugoslavia, BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/milosevic_yugoslavia/default.stm
- Trying War Criminals, Indict Slobodan Milosevic, PBS Frontline, 1998 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/karadzic/trial/scharf.html
- Coverage of the Trial, American Public Media. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/milosevic/index.html
- Type "Milosevic" into SIRS search field to find relevant articles.
- Editorials and articles about the Milosevic trial from the Brookings Institution. http://www.brookings.edu/search.aspx?doQuery=1&q=milosevic
- Type "Milosevic" into the search field on Stanford University's website to find relevant articles. http://www.stanford.edu/
- Famine in Somalia
- Somalia Famine: UN Warns of 750,000 Deaths, BBC, 9/2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14785304
- Somalia Famine: Many Victims Afraid to Return Home, Huffington Post, 11/22/11. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/26/somalia-famine-many-victi_n_1114064.html
- Somalia Famine Eases but Situation is Still Fragile, The Guardian, 11/18/11. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/nov/18/famine-eases-somalia-threat-remains
- Famine in Somalia is Killing Tens of Thousands, Washington Post, 7/11. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/un-famine-in-somalia-is-killing-tens-of-thousands/2011/07/20/gIQAbV3iPI_story.html
- Famine Stricken Somalia Suffers from Aid Drought, NPR, 10/12/11. http://www.npr.org/2011/10/12/141257957/besides-famine-somalia-suffers-donation-drought
- Coverage of Famine in Somalia, 2011, NY Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/famine/index.html
- Analysis of the Causes of the Famine in Somalia, Oxfam International, http://www.oxfam.org/en/emergencies/east-africa-food-crisis/famine-somalia-what-needs-be-done
- Editorial: How to End the Famine in Somalia, Al Jazeera, 10/18/11. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201181794837756557.html
- Type "Somalia" into SIRS search field to find relevant articles.
- Research Somalia at CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/so.html and U.S. State Department http://www.state.gov/p/af/ci/so/
- Type "Somalia" into the search field on Stanford University's website to find relevant articles. http://www.stanford.edu/
- Editorials and articles about the Milosevic trial from the Brookings Institution. http://www.brookings.edu/search.aspx?doQuery=1&q=somalia
- UN Peacekeeping Missions
- Coverage of UN Peacekeeping Missions, United Nations, http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/
- History of UN Peacekeeping Missions, Nobel Prize.org. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1988/un-history.html
- Editorial about the Failure of UN Peacekeeping Missions, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2000. http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/55875/max-boot/paving-the-road-to-hell-the-failure-of-u-n-peacekeeping
- Coverage of UN Peacekeeping Missions, NY Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/organizations/ u/united_nations/department_of_peacekeeping_operations/index.html
- Interview with Head of UN Peacekeeping Operations about violence in Congo, NPR, 5/24/11. http://www.npr.org/2011/05/24/136620247/le-roy-discusses-u-n-peacekeeping-operations
- The Case for UN Peacekeepers, Council on Foreign Relations, 3/2/11. http://www.cfr.org/peacekeeping/case-un-peacekeeping/p24277
- Editorial: Why are UN Peacekeepers so Badly Equipped for Modern Conflict? The Independent, 8/9/11. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/why-are-un-peacekeepers-so-badly-equipped-for-modern-conflict-2334052.html
- UN Peacekeeping Efforts Hit by Economic Distress, Arab Unrest, Bloomberg News, 8/4/11. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-04/un-peacekeeping-efforts-hit-by-economic-distress-arab-unrest-afghan-war.html
- Type "U.N. Peacekeeping Missions" into SIRS search field to find relevant articles.
- Editorials and articles about the U.N. Peacekeeping missions from the Brookings Institution. http://www.brookings.edu/search.aspx?doQuery=1&q=u.n.%20peacekeeping
- Type "U.N. Peacekeeping" into the search field on Stanford University's website to find relevant articles. http://www.stanford.edu/
- Editorials and articles about U.N. Peacekeeping missions from the American Enterprise Institute. http://www.aei.org/search/u.n.+peacekeeping
