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Grading Complicity in Rwandan Refugee Camps
Author(s) -
LEPORA CHIARA,
GOODIN ROBERT E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2011.00536.x
Subject(s) - complicity , genocide , refugee , wrongdoing , criminology , collusion , political science , sociology , oryx , law , business , industrial organization , paleontology , biology
Complicity with wrongdoing comes in many forms and many degrees. We distinguish subcategories cooperation, collaboration and collusion from connivance and condoning, identifying their defining features and assessing their characteristic moral valences. We illustrate the use of these distinctions by reference to events in refugee camps in and around Rwanda after the 1994 genocide, and the extent to which international organizations and nongovernment organizations were wrongfully complicit with the misuse of refugees as human shields by the perpetrators of the genocide who were allowed to run those camps.