I think that Canada should go into the Central African Republic to help. We should work along side the French peacekeepers that are already working there. We can help the people that are living there with humanitarian causes; we can provide food and supplies to those who need it. Helping the people in the Central African Republic to create a peace treaty would be beneficial as well. This will make it so that the ethnic cleansing stops and the killing. I think that the targeting of civilians isn’t fair and needs to be stopped. These people clearly aren’t going to be able tot stop the fighting on their own; they need outside forces to help them with the resolution. The French being in the Central African Republic seems to be helping with some of the humanitarian problems but there doesn’t seem to be a resolution to stop the fighting. I think that with the help of another country then may be an agreement can be reached between the Muslims and the Christians. If we leave this situation alone to work out the problems on their own then we could have another genocide taking place. The same thing that happened in Rwanda could happen in the Central African Republic. There was only a small amount of aid that was provided in Rwanda. 800,000 people were killed and many more displaced having to leave the country. I think that this shouldn’t happen again. We should try to stop the killing and displacement before it becomes out of control and considered genocide, because at that point it will be too late. The way that the refuges are living isn’t good; they are living in fear and are staving. I don’t think that this is fair. If we provide aid then these people will be able to go back to living in their villages and not having to live in fear of being killed because of what they believe in. Providing this aid will be able to increase many people’s quality of life. I think that it is in Canada’s best interest to provide aid to the people living in Central African Republic to work alone side the French.

I think it would be in the best national interest for canada to offer to send troops into CAR to help aid the french in their peacekeeping mission. It would be best for canada to do this since it is the frenches problem and it would be good for canada to give support. This would allow canada to help out but also not get in the frenches way of trying to fix one of their legacies. this would allow canada not to waste a lot of resource and money on something that's not even their problem. Another reason that it would be a in best national interest for canada's best national interest to offer troop for aid would be that it would protect both groups. This is a good idea since both group are at fault and then canada doesn't have to send their entire military just to focus on one group. witch wouldn’t be just be justifiable but would also cost canada a lot of resources and money at the same time. All of this would allow there to be less death on both side since the french are trying to get a peace treaty. it would also allow the citizens to be protected bette. But if this eternal conflict were to turn into a genocide officially recognized by the UN then i would think it would be in the best national interest for canada to send in the a peacekeeping force. Until that happens it would be in the best national interest for canada to offer troops to work beside the french.

Canada should send in troops to work alongside the French troops already stationed in CAR. They should protect the civilians and work to make peace. We should attempt to make peace in CAR before going directly after the group mainly responsible for the violence. If France pulls all of its troops from the area then Canada should take it upon itself to go after the group that has committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. Canada needs to get involved to prevent, what is shaping up to be, another genocide. It is in Canada’s best national interest to get involved in the CAR crisis because we need to provide food and security the displaced civilians and also need to stop killing of civilians. Canada should at least get involved in humanitarian aid for the one million civilians displaced from their homes and communities. One of Canada’s big values is help refuges and people who are in war tarnished countries, and that’s why lots of refugees flee to Canadian soil. So we should start setting safe camps up in Car and providing food and security for the people. In the video it stated that the children are contracting diseases and are becoming malnourished, so they need to be shipped food soon. Also it the video to showed children building fake guns because they are anticipating becoming a solider soon. So I think that Canada need to put in their best effort to stop this civil war and prevent kids from becoming child soldiers so that they can have a better quality of life. If we send troops to keep the peace and protect people, Canada should start by make sure both sides stop killing civilians, and that will decrease the body count. Also ethnic cleansing is basically a genocide, but if you call it a genocide then you have to intervene based on international law. However; Canada should still send peacekeepers and soldiers over to the CAR because morally it’s the right thing to do.

Canada should enforce the situation in the CAR (Central African Republic) by sending soldiers to the area to fight for a peace agreement that both sides of the conflicted can agree with because Canada Is essentially half French. The two countries Canada if formed from is France a Britain which means there is some responsibility Canada should take for they atrocities taking place in the CAR. With deployment of troop in the CAR troops could help with protecting neutral environments such as hospitals and refugee camps. It’s in Canada’s national interest for the government were too send troops into the area they should develop a mandate that supports the idea of protecting civilians and also creating piece with the use of force and once piece was made, keeping that piece until an active government can sustain that piece. Canada should also clearly and distinctively identify the aggressor in the situation and if it is necessary use force to eliminate the aggressor to save lives. If Canada were to do nothing genocide would be inevitable. The sings of genocide are all there and there many similarities between Rwanda and Darfur. Two different groups that dislike each other and want change. The Rwandan Genocide is a perfect example of countries standing by and letting atrocities happen. The UN sent in a piece keeping force witch would have been great if there was any piece to keep but since there is actual fighting taking place, a piece making force is what is needed. The same case happen is Darfur when government supported Janjaweed were given weapons to go kill innocent civilians and the countries stood by and watched because they did wanted to be involved in mass deaths that were taking place. Canada doesn’t necessarily have to act by themselves either, they can get support from France and the UN but they need to take charge and make sure that the killing stops before they set up a peace agreement. It’s in Canada’s national interest to provide military support in the area to create piece, protect civilians with safety and keep piece until a stable government is put in place that both sides agree too that can keep piece indefinitely.

I think that it is Canada’s interest to provide aid in CAR. As a peace keeping country I believe that we should have some involvement in what’s going one. Now I’m not saying that we should invest all our resources and send as much military aid as France did, but still enough to do some kind of help. Also by helping other countries that are going through crisis this can build ties that we haven’t had before. Hopefully our involvement in other countries will be useful in the future. We could gain more consideration in upcoming trade with that country. Or if Canada developed its own crisis hopefully through other we’ve helped in the past, we could look for aid through them. Another great reason why Canada should be getting involved is because there are crimes agents’ humanity taking place. As a multicultural country we have both Christians and Muslim people living in our country. If ethnic tensions were to continue and climb what’s to stop an outbreak between like this happening somewhere else. Also with all the refugees and immigrants coming all around the world, I think we owe a little bit of service to where there escaping from. Why should the people who can’t hope that plain out of the country or find safety be left to defend for themselves? Just because someone has the money to buy a ticket out doesn’t mean that every person should access to safety and security. Also as a country part of the UN is our job to make sure the international peace and security. People might say that this is just an national conflict only affecting CAR but it really isn’t. Other fighters from other countries in Africa are joining the fight which is dragging more countries into the conflict slowly making it into a International problem. So why wait till it exalts into something bigger. Why doesn’t Canada invest aid right now instead of waiting till the problem becomes large and Canada is forced into pouring more resources? These are the reasons why Canada should take some level of action now instead of wait for something bigger and worse.

I believe it is in Canada’s national interest to send troops into the violent situation happening in the Central African Republic (CAR). Canada would team up with the French peacekeepers that are already there. They could help with the humanitarian aspect as well because they could bring food and water to the civilians who are displaced from there homes. By going in they could help establish civilization and the basis for ongoing peace support operations and then turn it over to somebody else after. Creating a peace treaty would also be very helpful in the Central African Republic. This would put a stop to the ethnic cleansing and the killings. Neither one of these groups are going to stop until the other is killed off. I think an agreement could be made between the Muslims and the Christians to stop fighting, with help from another country. Another reason is if other nations see a big country like Canada going to help, they might also go help in CAR. This will also benefit Canada if they ever find themselves in a violent situation leading to genocide, the other nations would see that they helped when other nations were suffering and than other nations who they helped would repay the favor. If Canada were to leave this situation alone and let them work it out themselves there would be another genocide taking place. The exact same thing happened in Rwanda and Darfur, two groups that strongly dislike each other who wanted change and used violence to achieve it. In Rwanda the United Nations sent in peace keepers, which would have worked a lot better if there was any peace to be kept. In Rwanda around 800,000 people were killed and many more displaced. The exact same thing happened in Darfur the Janjaweed a group of government armed Arabs systematically attacked and killed civilians. In Darfur more than 480,000 people have been killed and 2.8 million people displaced. If we send troops and establish civilization again the people will feel safe and would be able to go back to living in their villages. I think that it is in Canada’s best interest to provide military support to create peace and humanitarian support in the Central African Republic.

I don’t think that Canada should send in Military force into CAR at this time but humanitarian aid. We may be seen as the humanitarian country, but that doesn’t mean that we need to send troops into every crisis that is happening around the world. Canada can send some aid to help refugees and peacekeepers, but Canada has already sent $16 million over to CAR this year in aid, other countries should come to the aid of CAR as well as France. Africa doesn’t directly impact Canada in a positive or negative way.

From another point of view I Canada should go and help in CAR because it is the right thing to do, helping others in need. Internationalism. People of the Central African Republic should be able to get help from the rest of the world when the lives of others are at stake. Canada should go in and stop the senseless violence brought upon by the two groups of Christians and Muslims, and sending in help will improve Canada’s reputation further. If Canada comes into trouble with another nation, others will be more likely to want to help in the situation. When Canada sent troops and aid in the Rwandan Genocide, a large difference was made to the nation’s people and what happened in Rwanda is happening in CAR, sending in troops could have the same positive effect. Because of Rwanda in 2000 Canada enacted the Crimes Against Humanity Act.

I believe that Canada should offer peacekeepers to the United Nations in order to help stop the conflict going on and to help protect the civilians from the civil war between the Selika and the Anti-Balaka. As a part of the United Nations, Canada should be entitled to help in the conflict taking place in the Central African Republic. Having Canada be part of the peacekeeping mission to stop the conflict can help to reduce the lives lost and prevent a potential genocide. I don't believe that it would be in Canada's best interest to directly attack the main offenders because of the increased risk of causing a new war between Canada and the offenders as well as the risk of the lives of the Canadian soldiers being sent into combat. Although the top priority is to protect the civilians of CAR and to stop the conflict, Canada must take consider of the risk of the Canadian soldiers who are being deployed. United Nations have made mistakes in the past on how to react with these types of civil war and have resulted in genocide like Rwanda. The UN should respond now while the conflicts are just starting to increase so that they can protect the people of CAR and make sure that innocent civilians aren't killed. As well as protecting the civilians from the conflict, Canada should help provide humanitarian needs to the people trying to escape the conflict by making refugee camps that are liveable in and that will keep militia's out. If Canada sits on the sidelines instead of helping out, this conflict may continue for much longer resulting in the deaths of innocents and may even become a genocide of one of the two ethnic groups in this conflict. I believe it would be best for Canada to offer peacekeeping services to the conflict going on in CAR in order to save the lives of innocents and to stop this conflict before it gets out of hand.

I think that it is in Canada's national interest to enter CAR. The best thing Canada could do to help the struggle in CAR would be to send soldiers alongside the French to protect civilians and negotiate a peace treaty. Canada could provide CAR with humanitarian aid in the refugee camps providing people with food and water people with food and water. This would help the displaced civilians help out the poverty stricken people. They could also provide aid for the hospitals by giving them instruments needed to help injured people from the war. This would help them because of the large amounts of wounded people and with the lack of supplies needed. Another thing that Canada could do is provide the people of CAR with security alongside the French. This would decrease the amount of civilian fatalities by a lot and would help the country to stay as strong as it would be able to. Canada could help the French try and stop the conflict because without foreign aid the fight between the Selekas and Anti Balakas would keep going and CAR would fall deeper and deeper into the pit of war and poverty. This is important because the country needs to stay as strong as possible in the unfortunate condition that it is in. As you can see Canada would provide a lot of support for the country in need.

Canada has a reputation of peace and peacekeeping missions around the world, and hold a good reputation based on that. Often times we send our forces to help organisations such as the UN and NATO to help with areas of trouble across the world. The Central African Republic is unique and different situation of most, but similar situations have happened in the past to other part in Africa. Once again it is a fight of religion between christians and muslims in the country, and both religions have created miliary groups fighting and defending their ethnic nation. Canada is in tough position in the fact that CAR is in the prelims of a possible genocide, or “ethnic cleansing” as officials call it. The choice we are faced is to deploy people on the ground in the attempt to stop anything from happening, or wait for something to happen and then send in help to avoid unneeded efforts. Personally, I think Canada should not deploy anyone on the ground unless we are fully helped by other nations so we and go with full force to stop yet another African crisis. In Rwanda the UN sent in only a couple thousand troops to stop a genocide that ended up killing around a million people, and the Canadian general and his men sat and watched. Sending in small to moderate amounts of help has been proven to be basically useless in conflicts of this stature. To fully help the CAR Canada needs to be the leader and gather lots of help from the UN and other nations so we don’t waste our time once again. If nobody is to cooperate there is almost no point in helping because then we all have already failed, because once it gets out of hand it will be like trying to slow a car without brakes down a hill.