Global Criminology and Human Right | Bhopal Gas Tragedy
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Global Criminology and Human Right | Bhopal Gas Tragedy
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RESEARCH PLAN2 | P a g eContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Objectives and Research Questions.................................................................................................3Literature review..............................................................................................................................4Research Methodology....................................................................................................................5Consequences..................................................................................................................................6Relation to the national and international context...........................................................................6References........................................................................................................................................7
RESEARCH PLAN3 | P a g eIntroductionHuman rights are something which has been gaining a lot of interest in the past decade. This is not only because of globalisation, but also due to increased disregard of human life. When one has to cite the leading catastrophes of earth, some leading names which crop up are the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear blast, the two world wars and Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Through this research, an attempt has been made to explore the different aspects of what went down in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, which led to such a big disaster.Objectives and Research QuestionsThe main objectives of this research include: Identifying the reasons which led to this mayhem.Identifying the people responsible for this mayhem and what happened to themThe actions which could have been taken in order to safeguard this incident from occurring, at different instances.The cost of this tragedy, in terms of victims, and the other costs including that of rehabilitation, recovery and reestablishment. To identify if there is a possibility of reoccurrence of such incident. From these stems the research questions:What actually happened?Could the tragedy been avoided by timely action of the company and that of government?Are the present laws enough to stop a repeat of such incident?
RESEARCH PLAN4 | P a g eLiterature reviewTulchinsky and Varavikova (2014) summed up the statistics of this tragedy, which stuck on December 03rd, 1984. They stated that around 3,800 died within minutes of this incident and anumber of others had to face lifelong illnesses. Varuggheese (2013) noticed that even though twenty six years had passed since the worst industrial catastrophe of the world, the repercussions of this incident continue to haunt the members of the nation, particularly of the city of Bhopal. Blanpain, Bromwich and Rymkevich (2011) chalked out the entire incident in his book and highlighted at different instances, the failure of the Union Carbide in taking the requisite steps to avoid the incidence of this magnitude, where a smaller incident had occurred just a few days before the real catastrophe struck, with a particular reference to CSR. Fortun (2009) reported the conviction of the seven former executives of the company for causing death due to negligence, which came in 2010.Saraf and Karanjikar (2005) noted this tragedy as a watershed event with regards to the process safety, which has led to paradigm shift in the outlook of the public and the industry towards the risk management, particularly in the matter of processing industries. Palazzi, Currò and Fabiano (2015) also analysed this incident in the backdrop of an approach towards the safetyequipment and the emergency time evaluation based on the actual information of this tragedy. Baofu (2011) noted that this incident not only had short term impact, but had a long term impact as well, due to the nature of the gas leak. He further noticed that even though a Relief and Rehabilitation Department had been formed by October 200, where 554,895 victims were awarded compensation for their loss, the after effects of this incident, still continues to char the people of that city. In this regard, he highlighted the loss of life, livestock, nature and the scarcityof pure water and safe food.
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