Likely Enduring Issues Essay Material

• Human rights violations: The unit's primary subject; nearly every case can be used
• Desire for human rights: Movements for recognition, the building of international institutions, contemporary human rights activism
• Power and abuse of power: State use of power to destroy populations
• Conflict: Genocides occur in conditions of war and political crisis
• Nationalism: Extreme nationalism is the most common ideological framework for genocide

<mark>Essay strategy for the Enduring Issues essay: If Maria gets a document set on this unit's themes, she can build a powerful essay around the development of international human rights law as a response to repeated genocides. Body points might cover the Armenian Genocide (showing the international community's failure to respond), the Holocaust (which produced the postwar framework), and a later case like Rwanda or Bosnia (which tested whether the framework actually worked). Closing with contemporary cases like Uyghurs or Rohingya shows continuity. This is one of the strongest essay structures available on the test.</mark>