Synthesis Essay
Foreign Aid is one of the most valuable tools in creating a more peaceful and coexisting world. Aid given to other countries is highly valuable as it helps individuals in ways their government isn’t always able to. One of America’s biggest shortcomings is the unwillingness to give aid to countries if it will not directly help America or American interests. In the past Americas unwillingness to help has allowed thousands or even millions of people to suffer. Money should not come before human life. However money can still save human life in places like Burundi where an unstable economy increases ethnic tension.
Burundi is on the brink of an extremely volatile, but not unheard of situation, in which two ethnic groups are chaffing against each other in the same way as in the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide (even with the same ethnic groups). The causes behind the Burundi conflict, while something that could be solved by military force also stand to be a situation that could be improved by foreign aid. One of the main problems Burundi has is that almost half of the population is living in poverty. It has been shown and proved that poverty has a
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The article illuminates the various ways America could have stepped in before and during the Rwandan Genocide. While admittedly the article does not mention Burundi it shows where Burundi is headed if there is no intervention. However in the article "BURUNDI: Towards Greater Food Security." they sit food security as a more important type of intervention in the case of Burundi. Both give good information and examples of what can be done, however neither of them offer real solutions on how to motivate other countries to provide the aid needed. It’s well and good to know what needs to give done, but pointless if there isn’t a plan to get other people