Argumentative Essay On Combat And Genocide

Introduction

Combat is defined as fighting between armed forces or an action taken to prevent or reduce something undesirable from happening. Since the formation of the United States of America, the US has been involved in over 50-armed conflicts. The United Nations definition of genocide is “any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group, (b) causing serious bodily harm to members of the group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group and (e) forcible transferring

However, combat has been directly or indirectly a part of or caused all known occurrences of genocide: from the American Indian Wars, which resulted in an unknown number of Native American tribes extinction to the Holocaust of WWII, which resulted in over six million Jewish deaths (“Documenting numbers of victims of the holocaust and Nazi persecution,” 2016). More recent occurrences of combat and genocide can be seen in Rwanda, New Zealand, Armenia, Bosnia and Darfur. The remainder of this paper will discuss combat only when present in tandem with genocide.

History

A true and accurate history of genocide and combat cannot be realistically established. This is due to several factors namely, individuals who wrote down ‘historical’ facts did not aim to portray history objectively rather they sought to immortalize or praise the writer’s leader and convey the superiority of their gods, deities and culture. However, when considering the primal human instinct of “us” vs. “them”, history books littered with violence and the amount of genocides within the past 100 years it is reasonable to suspect the occurrences of genocide and combat together are pre-historic.

Forensic psychologist must be knowledgeable in the clinical components of psychology as well as the legal. With regards to clinical knowledge, a forensic psychologist must be able to recognize symptoms associated with exposure to combat and genocide, be sensitive to the needs of an individual suffering from these symptoms and provide guidance on appropriate treatment options.

Legal consideration that forensic psychologist must be knowledgeable on are the There are several factors which link forensic psychology to combat and genocide. Whether you look at combat without genocide or genocide where combat is present

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