What can be done to stop the Rwandan genocide happening again?

Answer 1

Firstly, keeping the minority from ruling without the support of the whole public. Also, Britain could have kept it as a colony, and send troops when it looks like a massacre is to happen. Or, splitting Rwanda into two states, one with a Hutu majority and another with a Tutsi majority.

Answer 2

According to Jared Diamond in the book Collapse, the Rwandan genocide was the product of a population that was growing rapidly combined with the fact that there was very little economic development or economic opportunity other than subsistence farming. As land pressures increased, the people faced the choice to either starve to death or else stir up violence to kill off some of the surplus population. If one accepts this as truth, and I believe there is a lot of validity to it, then the most important ways to prevent another genocide there would be to increase economic opportunities in their cities while also creating a program to somehow limit population control. When violence broke out, of course, it followed ethnic lines. So a program to better homogenize the population may also be useful, though this is a more superficial approach than addressing the real problems of overpopulation and land shortages.

Answer 3

Genocides are one of the most difficult things to prevent. By the time the outside world knows about one, it has gone for weeks, months or years. More than six decades after the Holocaust, the horrors of Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur are sobering reminders that preventing future genocides and mass atrocities remains an enormous challenge. Some persons think that genocide is not the inevitable result of ancient hatreds or irrational leaders. Perpetrators of genocide and mass atrocities cannot succeed without the support of other governments and corporations; so preventing mass atrocities requires political will.

Answer 4

In 2 ways. 1. Rebels had not make violence, would have to wait for negotiation (2002). 2. The Sudanese Govt and its sponsored Janjaweed Militia should not have started killing and clensing. They could arrange negotiation talks.

Answer 5

The only serious way to have stopped the Darfur Genocide would have been military involvement.