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Panelists at a forum on the Darfur genocide urged audience members yesterday to become activists for the peaceful resolution of the on-going conflict. The forum, “Advocating for Darfur,” held at the Institute of Politics (IOP), was moderated by Rebecca Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hamilton opened the discussion by asking the panelists to explore the effects of the lesser-known conflict in South Sudan on the current crisis in Darfur. Rev. Gloria White Hammond, a pediatrician in Boston...
Speaking on Monday, President George W. Bush stated that “the United Nations should not wait any longer to approve a blue-helmeted force” for Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region as mandated by UN Resolution 1706. Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir responded by insisting that the situation in Darfur is under control. But even as he spoke, gun fights erupted between his army and Darfuri rebels in the posh streets of Omdurman, across the river from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. With a third of Darfur?...
...Troops to Darfur...
...Schulz said. “The war in Iraq is descended in the name of humanitarian intervention to protect the world from Saddam and protect the Iraqi people, yet at the same time the world, even the U.S., ignores the true need for humanitarian intervention in Darfur...
...other five fellows are Caroline Elkins, Foster associate professor of African Studies and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer for non-fiction; Omer Ismail, a Sudanese activist studying the genocide in Darfur; Andrea Rossi, the former research coordinator of United Nations Children’s Fund’s Innocenti Research Centre; Beena Sarwar, a journalist and documentary filmmaker studying human rights in Pakistan; and William Arkin, NBC News military analyst who will be writing a chapter for the upcoming book “In Search of the Perfect...