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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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