Word: darfur
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...Corporation members have changed since the Class of 1982 first arrived at Harvard; the advisory group is no longer the Advisory Committee for Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), but the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility; and apartheid-era South Africa is gone, bringing attention instead to the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...Under Bush 2, he served first as U.S. Trade Representative and then Deputy Secretary of State, working on international trade negotiations for months on end and later on the crisis in Darfur. It was an open secret that Zoellick always wanted to be Treasury Secretary, and when it became clear that he was unlikely to get the position, he left government last year and went to work for Goldman Sachs in New York. During his year at Goldman Sachs, Zoellick kept a real-time watch on a wide variety of events in Washington and served as a foreign policy adviser...
...pressure the Sudanese government have long foundered on Bashir's intransigence. "President Bashir's actions over the past few weeks follow a long pattern of promising cooperation while finding new methods for obstruction," the President said. "The result is that the dire security situation on the ground in Darfur has not changed." The question is how sanctions by the U.S. government against a few Sudanese companies with whom America already does no business will persuade Bashir to relent...
...Washington has certainly done more than any other country to bring peace to Darfur, urging the U.N. to define the conflict as a genocide and brokering a peace agreement between the government and some rebel factions in 2006 (that was, however, never implemented), before Tuesday's sanctions announcement. Europe has yet to find clear voice on the conflict. (Tuesday also saw France unveil a plan for an international force to open a humanitarian corridor from eastern Chad into Darfur, but when questioned, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner admitted: "It is only an idea so far ... but it might work.") Meanwhile...
...action that might change minds in Khartoum would be the threat of direct military intervention, but in light of the Iraq debacle, that option is simply not on the table. Despite the sanctions announced Tuesday by President Bush, the coming months will see more horrifying news of massacres from Darfur, more wrenching refugee tales, more urgent calls for action. And the reason the Darfur crisis will continue to tear at the world's conscience isn't simply because of the scale and cruelty of the atrocities there, but also because the global community either...