Causes and the impact of genocide on economies, women and children Genocide is an operation planned and executed on a group of people belonging to a certain race, religion, ethnic group or religion with the intent to kill them. Genocide classifies people into groups, dehumanizes them using hateful symbols and languages, stereotypes, and it is always organized. Some of the major genocides that have occurred in history are the Holocaust, Bosnia’s genocide, Rwanda genocide and more recently the Darfur genocide, among others. Genocides are caused by a variety of reasons that could be political economic or social or even personal. For example, Germany was facing an economic crisis, which they blamed it on the Jews hence the holocaust; Hitler also personally loathed the Jews. The Holocaust led to the death of 8 million Jews who were murdered ruthlessly under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. While in Rwanda it could be attributed to both ethnic differences and political issues following the assassination of the then president on April 1994. The Rwandan government instructed the Hutus majority to murder every member of the Tutsis minority. In a hundred days one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered living millions of others injured mentally and physically. This was one of the worst cases of genocide since the Holocaust with the killing rate in Rwanda being five times more that of the Nazis’ Holocaust; as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population were murdered and thousands of Hutu were also slain for opposing the genocide. The fighting groups feel that they cannot coexist with their opponents nor can they share power or resources (Kakar 89). These cases of genocide can be greatly attributed to globalization, especially in today’s society due to the global sale of arms financing from the Diaspora, international organizations, trained militia by foreign forces and also huge economic expectations all over the globe. Globalization has created an environment for wars in which neo –nationalisms develop and create instability in weak nations and religions hence creating conditions for social fragmentation fuelling conditions for cleavage and conflict. It has been noted that in all genocides that have happened the international organizations and world powers always intervene when it is already too late to salvage the situation (Valentino 245). Conflict always has many effects on the society economically and also socially, and the major effect being great loss of human life that brings a big demographic change on a population. Some of the economic problems facing the world are due to cost incurred in genocide activities, because a country in conflict stops production activities and instead concentrates on spending on arms, resettlement of the displaced and also trial for the perpetrators of the event. Resources are depleted while the human workforce is displaced as refugees and others are even murdered and before the country comes to recovery the GNP drops and they are forced to depend on donations. The people who escape to other nations find it hard to cope because those countries consider them as a burden economically and socially, they face discrimination and all they can do is live in refugee camps where the living conditions are very poor. People should