research into genocide

well so far my research strategy for blog 1 - genocide has been much the same as that which i would do for an essay. i look on EBSCOhost (academic search premier, and the psychology databases) for a few different keywords, so to start with things like "genocide" then i start to narrow it down.

not only have i searched for information on the rwanda genocide, but also on another genocide, which is probably just as well known, that is the genocide (and associated war) in the former yugoslavia. i find this particularly interesting because i have a friend who lived through the war, from the bosnian/croatian side (not sure, but this may not be completely accurate as i believe they may have been opposing sides at some point) and it is very interesting to find out why this may have happened. once again (as with rwanda) the main factor with the yugoslavia genocide appears to be the different ethnicities such as croatian/serbian/bosnian/etc...i may be detecting a pattern here...

both rwanda and yugoslavia genocides were to do with different ethnic groups, and the main difference between the different ethnic groups that i can spot is that they had different religious perspectives (at least in the yugoslavia one, i am not yet certain if hutus and tutsis had different religious perspectives though i suspect they probably did)

i have to admit, i find researching all of this genocide stuff a bit depressing - and scary - to see just what people are capable of. i need to remind myself that in each of these terrible situations, there is also a lot of bravery, and the positive aspects of human nature also seem to shine through.

my next step will be to actually take a good look at the articles/websites/etc that i have discovered so far, and hopefully develop a concept map from there. i will upload it onto MindMeister, and probably provide a link or something when i actually have something there to link to!

please, any comments or thoughts are most welcome