Word: darfur
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...primary or caucus, 61 percent said they would “definitely” vote in the general election, and three-quarters said they were registered to vote. In terms of foreign policy issues, nearly a quarter of the polled youth prioritized stabilizing Iraq, 17 percent cited genocide in Darfur, and 4 percent said they were most concerned with the “war on terrorism.” Marina Fisher ’09—the student co-chair of the IOP survey group—said that the strong youth concern for Darfur underscores the disparity between...
...uncontested vote last night. The University has in recent years ended its direct investments in two Chinese oil companies that do business in Sudan, but still holds indirect investments in these companies and others through index funds managed by Barclays, a British bank. Representatives of the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) were on hand to present yesterday’s legislation, which included both a position paper and a resolution urging the administrators of Harvard’s endowment to adhere to HDAG’s model for divestment. Among the central tenets of the legislation were imperatives to resist...
...dilemma seems particularly applicable as of late. Last week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum teamed up with Google to allow every Google Earth user to visualize the genocide committed by the Janjaweed militia in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...underlying problem is that when it comes to Darfur, governments have thus far done little more than talking. Neither the U.S. nor the E.U. are willing to forcefully intervene for humanitarian reasons, and rising powers like China have undermined multilateral economic pressure by signing trade treaties with the Khartoum regime that sponsors the Janjaweed paramilitaries. And as usual, with no willing hard power around, United Nations’ resolutions seem at best inconsequential...
...much of the democratic foreign policy establishment, that's still the prism--look at Obama's push for U.N. or even NATO intervention in Darfur, or Edwards' tough talk about Vladimir Putin's rollback of democracy in Russia. Blairism, at its heart, is optimistic. It assumes that the U.S., working with its allies, can make other countries freer, healthier and richer. It assumes those countries will generally want our help. Above all, it assumes that the key to U.S. security is building a world that looks more like us. Blairism may be less militaristic than neoconservatism, but it's still...