--- title: Genocide: Why It Keeps Happening description: Why genocide keeps happening, how to stop a conflict in the South China Sea, thinking slow to keep kids out of trouble, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3910660/why-genocide-happens/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-05T16:01:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:11.306Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Genocide Keeps Happening og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3910660/why-genocide-happens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Genocide Keeps Happening twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Genocide Keeps Happening by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 5, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 5, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s why genocide keeps happening.**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/05/01/heres-why-genocide-keeps-happening/ideas/up-for-discussion/) By Jacqueline Murekatete, Simon Adams, Ellen Kennedy, Ernesto Verdeja, Charles J. Brown, Peter Galbraith in Zócalo Public Square **1\.** [**How not to fix airport screening.**](http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/06/how-not-fix-airport-screening/114310/) By Patrick Tucker in Defense One **2\.** [**Our best tool to avoid conflict in the South China Sea is a treaty the Senate won’t ratify.**](http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/how-the-us-senate-can-help-stabilize-the-south-china-sea/) By Ankit Panda in the Diplomat **3\.** [**Teaching them to “think slow” and control their impulses is keeping teens out of trouble in Chicago.**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/teaching-youth-to-think-slow-may-help-reduce-crime/) By Andrew Flowers in FiveThirtyEight **4\.** [**How not to fix airport screening.**](http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/06/how-not-fix-airport-screening/114310/) By Patrick Tucker in Defense One **5\.** [**Teaching inmates to tame wild horses gives both a better life.**](http://www.ozy.com/true-story/training-inmates-to-tame-wild-horses/40936) By Melanie Ruiz in Ozy  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3910660/why-genocide-happens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3910660/why-genocide-happens/"},"headline":"Why Genocide Keeps Happening","datePublished":"2015-06-05T16:01:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:11.306Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3910660/why-genocide-happens/","keywords":["Innovation","South China Sea","TSA","genocide"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3910660/why-genocide-happens/","name":"Why Genocide Keeps Happening"}}]}] ```