GENOCIDE

2nd and 3rd set

1. What role did the international community play during the genocide? In the Rwanda genocide, it didn't was of much help, because Gisimba says that fe felt as if the International Community was very far from the country; so probably the organization just turned its back against him.

2. Does the international community has the responsibilty of assisting countries threatened by genocide? Yes, it must act to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity. It also checks that human rights are fully respected, promoted, protected, and implemented to make sure that genocide never happens again.

3. How can students get involved and make their voices be heard against genocide?
Maybe we can make school campaigns against genocide to show other students what all these is about and why it is important to do something to prevent it.

4. Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened? Yes, the last winter vacations I was spending the day learning in the emergency room of a hospital, when suddenly at noon a guy who was driving a motorcycle and was ran over by a car, was brought on an ambulance accompained by a lady who didn't even know him, but was really worried about him, and decided to help him.

5. When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved? Well, I think that offering your help depends on the moral of the person, it may be a responsibilty but not an obligation, that's why many don't do it; but personally, I will offer my help to a person in need, because if I don't, I know that later I will feel too guilty. I think that bystanders in most of the cases they don't lose anything by helping others, but in extreme cases, which I think are less, they may risk their own lives to save others; and when they don't get involved, they just let things happen, and don't make any change.

1st and 4th set

4. What does it mean - as both Simone Weil Lipman and Damas Gisimba state - to "see the other as yourself?" I think this is a very important phrase because basically it asks to feel empathy for the ones of your kind; to put yourself in the situation of another person, and help them when they need it, or do for that person what you would have done for yourself, or do whatever but don't abondoned them because someday you may need from that help too.

8. What would it take to banish hatred? First of all, parents and teachers at school should give lessons to teach children to love others, no matter what is their race, how to be good with others, to always help others in need, and all those things so they can grow up being righteous persons, because after all values are the most important thing in a person, and those ones should never be lost. And for older generations, I think is a little more complicated; maybe government campaigns that promote human solidarity, or maybe famous people persuading audiences, etc.
I also think that it is important to fight against hatred, because we already have several wars happening on the world, and if this situation continues WWIII can explode, and many innocent lives will die because of nonsense issues.