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Why has international intervention to stop the fighting in Darfur failed, and what policy alternatives might succeed? 37 Articles

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    by Avil Beckford

    With an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 deaths, 2.8 million displaced within Sudan since 2003, the road to peace in Darfur is paved with government accountability. A focus group interview with Sudanese women, and responses...read more

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    by V. Kumar

    There are more than one reasons that have contributed in the failure of international intervention to stop destruction of human life in Darfur. The first of these reasons is that the Sudanese Government is an active per...read more

  • by Robin Finesmith

    The question itself, sadly, is part of the problem. "The fighting" in Darfur amounts to genocide. We have to get the words right. Else, we hamstring our conscience, and bind our own hands. There are three well-do...read more

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    by Steve Johnson

    Under Darfur lies one of the greatest prizes of all time: a sizable pool of oil, largely untapped. This mineral wealth is the basis for the policies the various governments, including that of the Sudan itself, have estab...read more

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    by Russell H. Smith

    As the world's arteries harden toward Africa you will often hear references to "Afro-pessimism", failed state, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Provocative language evoked by provocative deeds - conjuring up the dark side of...read more

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    by Marie Devine

    International intervention to stop the fighting in Darfur has failed because of failure to see or respect the underlying cause of the conflict. When Arabs say they want Islamic law, they mean God's law. There is a conflict...read more

  • by Patrick Anthony Drake

    The greatest successful potential of intervention and peace policy may require confidence and trust in the policy maker and a restoration of hope to the innocent people fallen victim to the obvious tragedy in the region of...read more

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    by Trevor Keck

    Accurately defining a problem is necessary to determine any solution. In 2004, then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that "genocide" had occurred in the Darfur region of Sudan, providing a narrative to frame ...read more

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    by Tessa Thomas

    T The reason for fighting among the nomadic herders and the farmers in the Darfur region of southern Sudan has more to do with lack of water then tribal affiliation. The abolishment of the Native Administration in 1971 b...read more

  • by David Gittlin

    One of the lessons history has taught us is that genocide and other injustices perpetrated against an oppressed people cannot continue unless we allow it. We are our brother's keeper, whether we like it or not. The situa...read more

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    by Barbara Stanley

    International intervention to stop the killing of Darfur citizens has failed because the U.N. peacekeepers has a record near zero for bringing peace to any nation where the organization has intervened. Bringing a few "key...read more

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    by Edward Hall

    All our efforts, our being everyones, to limit violence in the mid east have failed. Darfur included. Why? Because the whole make up of the middle east is an artificial construct foisted on the people there by the west. ...read more

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    by Steve Lussing

    On December 31, 2007, a United Nations peacekeeping force officially aligned with an inadequate African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan to form the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission (UNAMID). It is inten...read more

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    by C.A. De Las Casas

    In small town Louisiana, there are a pair of dogs who fight nearly every day. They can be heard throughout the town, and by now they've worked themselves into everyone's routine. They will both wander into each other's s...read more

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    by Selaelo Ramokgopa

    The Darfur fighting has been going on for a little over five years. Darfur is one of the world's current longest standing conflict regions and it is worth noting that the conflict has been going on for the same length of t...read more

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    by hibernianscribe

    Southern Sudan has oil. There has been a civil war, between Arab/Muslim north and African Animist south, in southern Sudan since the 1970s. The current conflict differs in that large scale displacement of people has impact...read more

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    by Raheim Smith

    History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of bad people, but the appalling silence of good people. Those words spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King J...read more

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    by Abeer El-Gharbawy

    In my opinion, there is no real international intervention, but there are definitely a few countries struggling over power and profit in Sudan. How can the destruction, corruption, the terror and the genocide in Darfur sto...read more

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    by Kenneth Boser Ii

    The "Crisis in Darfur", detailing the past five or so years of warring factions within Sudan, is always reported as being something like a quarter of a million dead, two and a half million or so displaced, and the general ...read more

  • by Jack Evans

    The fighting in the Western Sudan between the Sudanese Military backed by the Janjaweed militia, and the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) cannot be blamed on one international or...read more

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