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Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center Why has international intervention to stop the fighting in Darfur failed, and what policy alternatives might succeed?

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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 the conflict. The situation in Darfur has since been compared to Rwanda and the Holocaust. Signs started popping up at rallies that read, "U.S. out of Iraq, into Darfur." Powell's declaration prompted support among opinion makers and U.S. politicians for sanctions and swift military action to punish Khartoum. However, the narrative provided by the U.S. genocide declara...

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