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Comparison of Post-conflict Reconstruction in Rwanda and Cambodia
Dvořáková, Klára ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Kochan, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dedicated to comparison of post-conflict reconstruction in two countries that went through a genocide, Rwanda and Cambodia. The goal of the thesis is to evaluate if the reconstruction was successful or not concerning the present situation in these countries. The purpose is also to decide whether it was performed correctly and whether it managed to prevent appearance of other conflicts and violations. The subject of post-conflict reconstruction is very extensive. Hence, my thesis is concerned mostly with achieving justice and reconciliation among people. So called Gacaca courts were the main instrument for stabilization of the society after the conflict. Therefore the thesis is very concerned with them. Parallel of Gacaca courts in Rwanda was ECCC tribunal in Cambodia. The last part of the thesis contains comparison of both conflicts and evaluation of reconstructions.
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Genocide in Rwanda and the Role of the UN
Viterová, Kristina ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Havlová, Radka (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the role of the UN during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The main goal is to identify failures that the UN has committed and in some cases to propose possible scenarios that the organization should have followed in order to prevent the massacre or to minimize its´ consequences. The theoretical part introduces the theory of the UN peacekeeping missions and the functioning of the UN system, focusing on the Security Council and the UN Secretariat. The practical part deals with the actual genocide in Rwanda and analyzes the response of the UN to the warnings and to the subsequent massacres. The last chapter summarizes all the key events where the UN failed during the genocide.
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Political and historical context of genocide in Srebrenica
Fic, Šimon ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the massacre in Srebrenica which took place during the war in Yugoslavia and in which more than 8000 bosnian muslims were killed. The genocide itself is defined in the theoretical part of the thesis. Further the thesis focuses on the historical development of Bosnia and Hercegovina and on the particularities of this area which are ethnicity and religion. Attention is given to the war in Yugoslavia which led to the Genocide in Srebrenica.
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Ethnicity as a factor of development in Rwanda
Čapková, Martina ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Havlová, Radka (referee)
Ethnicity as a factor of development in Rwanda examines how much is the ethnicity a crucial element in the development of this African country. Essay evaluates historical events and the current state of Rwanda, so that it can comprehensively assess the role currently played by ethnicity, and its influence in the future. The importance of ethnicity is closely related to the success rate of the national postgenocide reconciliation.
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The prosecution of crimes committed during the Rwanda genocide
Frantesová, Ivana ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Trávníčková, Zuzana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the prosecution of crimes committed during the Rwanda genocide at both international and national level. The thesis focuses mainly on the activity of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), national courts and the activities of the Gacaca courts. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the impact of the respective institutions on restoration of justice and achieving peace and national reconciliation in Rwanda based on their in-depth analysis.
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Role of media in conflicts: Case study Rwanda
Mlčková, Kateřina ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Kochan, Jan (referee)
Media can have an enormous influence on its audience. They can suggest what and how we will think about something. Moreover people tend to joining groups and to share their opinions, so the minority opinions are slightly disappearing. As the media have this power, it isn't difficult to abuse them. The media in Rwanda were abused for extremist propaganda against Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Magazine Kangura was misused for racist brainwashing during civil war between 1990 and 1993. Radio broadcasting RTLM was effective way of organising genocide and provoking racial hatred in 1994 in Rwanda. On the other hand, the international press didn't inform correctly about what was going on in Rwanda. As a consequence, there wasn't such a high priority on solving somehow conflict in Rwanda.
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Causes of genocide in Rwanda: Psychological aspects
Burešová, Jana ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Peterková, Jana (referee)
Ethnic discrimination has deep roots in Rwanda. For many dozens of years, Tutsis have been marked down as those whose task it is to rule the country and Hutus have been treated as those who have to submit to it. As time moved on, Hutu hatred had been growing steadily and resulted in coup d'état in 1959 and consequent persecutions of Tutsis. However, hidden grudge lingered on. The pretext for its revival was the RPF incursion into the country at the beginning of nineties. The invasion also became one of the major preconditions of the fastest genocide in history. This thesis aims to pinpoint actors with direct and also indirect influence, to specify their motives, to assess implications of their decisions and on the grounds of this all to divide them into groups of perpetrators, bystanders and rescuers. The identification of psychological aspects of Hutu perpetrators was made with intent to analyse the process of Us-Them thinking with its typical features and consequences and the process of dehumanization with particular emphasis on its linguistic forms. In connection with that, this thesis points out crucial importance of Rwandan media of hate which determined anti-Tutsi propaganda to a considerable extent.
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Compliance with the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols in armed conflict since 1990.
ČERMÁKOVÁ, Irena
The armed conflicts to humanity for centuries. Almost always the reason for armed conflict dominion over certain territories. If we focus on armed conflicts closest to us history, it is clear that these include first and second World War. These two wars have caused thousands of deaths on all sides and great hardship of the civilian population. After World War II it seemed that the end of armed conflicts. Nevertheless, followed by the war in Korea or Vietnam, where once again innocent civilians died. But this is more than fifty years of history. Unfortunately, the armed conflict is still repeated, and since 1990 there were more than a hundred and twenty. Although not a war of such magnitude, which is involved in the entire world, but they have also been responsible for hundreds of deaths. The trend of conflict after the Cold War is undoubtedly the killing of civilians. Unfortunately, the loss ratio for the armed forces and civilians dramatically changed. Particularly in Africa are relatively small losses on fighting units. But civilians are dying by the hundreds of thousands. Reasons for armed conflict after the Cold War are different. In most cases, however, it is the territory and related ethnic cleansing, or wealth, which are eg. in Africa diamonds. The purpose of my thesis was draw attention to the constant threats to fundamental human rights in armed conflicts are totally ignored. The theoretical part describes international humanitarian law, which should be the basis for armed conflict. And describes the basic principles of international humanitarian law and the types of armed conflict under international humanitarian law. The theoretical part also describes some of the articles of the Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols to the armed conflict since 1990 are the most commonly used and are very serious. Due to the number of armed conflicts since 1990, which was more than 120, is shown in the work of ten selected armed conflicts. In selected conflicts are described various war crimes that were committed against the civilian population. These crimes are similar in countries that are a common culture or mentality. In African countries is the same crimes. The difference is mostly in scale committing these war crimes. The same is true even in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. In this thesis were consumed interviews with some participants armed conflicts, which greatly helps us to better understand the war crimes that were committed during the armed conflict. Processing and evaluation of the results was done in MS Word and MS Excel.
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The Impact of the Khmer Rouge Rule on the Stability and Position of Cambodia in the Region
Juška, Bohdan ; Knotková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Havlová, Radka (referee)
My work refers to the modern history of Cambodia and the region of Indochina with the accent on the Khmer Rouge regime. It explores the topic of the impact of the Khmer Rouge regime on three levels- local, regional and global. It gives a brief outline of the historical development from the war of independence to the peace talks in the 1980s. It covers some key historical events, e.g. the Lon Nol's coup d'état in 1970, followed by the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975, the genocide regime, the response of the neighbouring countries, the Vietnamese invasion in 1978, the establishment of The People's Republic of Kampuchea, reconstruction, peace efforts. It deals with both domestic development and the international and diplomatic relations as well. The work also studies the impact of the volatile Cambodian history on the region and the response of the bi-polar world of the 1970s and 1980s, in the context of the Cold War, primarily of the USA, the Soviet Union and China. It attempts to reveal the Khmer Rouge doctrines, the nature, characteristics and origin of their extremist ideology, the connection with global communist teaching. It also focuses on the aspect of the international law. Other topics mentioned in the work are refugee issues and international tribunals.
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Responsibility to Protect - Concept and Application
Sitter, Tomáš ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Sršeň, Radim (referee)
Topic of this thesis is the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine that has become very current at the present time because of its use in legitimising the operation of NATO and other countries during the uprising in Libya in 2011. Apart from a number of sympathetic opinions, it has caused a wave critique, which has been of two types. Some criticised even the fact itself that the UN Security Council had labelled the Libya situation as a case suited for the application of this doctrine. There were also those who had agreed wholeheartedly with this designation, but who were disappointed by how the operation that followed had proceeded. This section of critics claims that NATO and other states that took part in the operation overstepped the mandate granted to them by the Security Council and thereby caused at least a partial delegitimising of R2P.
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