hmmm.... im combining what i learned in history with what i learned in marriage and family... and i have to say, that i think if people would combine how human relationships work with how we deal with real life situations more, society might actually progress...

anyways

so we're talking about genocide, which is actually pretty interesting 

but the method that we use for dealing with it is retarded.

do you honestly think that punishing the person who did the crime... after the crime has already been committed  will 

1.  somehow make up for the human loss of life.... 239 + 1 doesnt = 0

its just another person dead

2.  prevent it from happening again?

there is a difference between punishment and disipline, this is where marriage and family comes in.   punishment is a nonrestorative, pain inflicting, and loss causing method of dealing with a problem.  disipline is directly connected to the event, restorative and helps the person learn from the mistake....

guess which one actually works, and guess which one is used most often.

punishment results in retaliation,  retaliation just results in more punisment... which then again result with retaliation....BRILLIANT IDEA

not so much.....

if you actually want to solve and prevent the problem, you have to get to the base.

is the base of genocide killing? no, if you wait till the killing starts then it is already too late.  the base problem is intolerance. for this reason, the punishment of one genocide will never prevent another from happening.  every situation is different and intolerance is so deeply imbedded that one will never see what they are doing as bad, they think that the other person deserves to die.  it is a lack of belief in base human worth.  if you can get people to see that their enemies are human and at the core have the same emotions and fears as yourself, one has eliminated the entire reason for genocide.

i would say that restorative justice and prevention are key.  yes, they take longer and yes maybe for a while more people would die, but over the course of time our world might actually get better, instead of continuing in a fear driven cycle.