Military Intervention: Preventing Genocide

Preventing genocides is a difficult task. There is a step system that has been established to help with recognition, but how effective is it? There have been ways that have been used to try and help with neutralizing and stopping genocides like international help and military intervention. Military intervention is another tough tool to use and a lot can go wrong if it is used incorrectly. There are helpful and justified uses for military intervention and it can be very helpful. All genocides cannot be prevented or suppressed. Genocides can be difficult to predict. There are 8 stages that have been identified to help understand and identify what a genocide looks like. Even with these stages identified, like anything else with symptoms sometimes

The use of international powers should be the first step that should be taken in most cases. If the problems continue there is military intervention which has proven to eventually work. Military intervention is difficult to use correctly. If military is sent in to early it could make the attempt to help look like an attempt to attack. This could be detrimental because it could turn both parties against the outside third party or it could make the victims feel double teamed and it could put the attackers on edge. If a military intervention is sent in too late then a lot of death has already occurred and the military is in a more hostile environment putting them at a greater risk of death. The right time to intervene in most cases would be when the groups are being physically separated and war tensions are growing. At this time the victims are ready for help and the attackers don't quite have all the power yet. When this is happening, as stated earlier, the best first step would be for NATO and the UN to step in. NATO and the UN are international powers that were designed to help situations like this. If their help is not working then the military can step

They should first try and neutralize the situation as best as they can. They should also establish safe zones for the civilians and victims. The more peaceful and unthreatening this process is the more effective it should be. Other nations should also provide support to the victims and if it is safe offer a place to flee. When doing this there needs to be protection for the people that are fleeing and for the nation they are fleeing to. Especially in todays world providing help to those being targeted makes the nation providing help a target as well. In the case of citizen evacuation there should be a military intervention to help the people move to their new location safely, They can also help protect the new location and make sure the attack doesn't