Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Interview

Faith N. Odigbo

Freshmen Seminar

12:10 – 1:00

Dr. Carr

3 November 2010

Interview

The question of our research project was what is the psychological and political framework that contributes to genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Well the group decided to interview Dr. Harrell, who has a Ph. D in psychology. We asked him pivotal questions on the psychological framework of the leaders who lead genocide to run rampant in their country and Dr. Harrell said that the mental wiring within the leader’s mind is askew and something went wrong during their development years because what would cause one person to think its okay to annihilation a certain ethnic group. While Dr. Harrell was answering our question, I could not help but think that the leaders who run countries where genocide is running amuck must be sick individuals to allow such destruction of human life in their own country. It saddens my heart to think that the media has brushed the genocide that is occurring in countries less fortunate then North America, who has the ability to avoid such catastrophic events in their history, well to a certain extent. I wished the media would shine a light on this event and how the natural resource that North America depends for everyday use is adding fuel, pun intended, to the events in other countries, whom are wiping a race in order to supply the North American demand. The interview with Dr. Harrell to be insightful and added beneficial information that helped get along with the research project.

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