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Muhajiriya, Sudan, the site of massacres in 2007, is in flames once again. In this South Darfur town, more than 30,000 people have been uprooted from their homes. New York Times columnist Nick Kristof has cited reports that the Sudanese government has resumed the lethal trifecta of aerial bombardment, Janjaweed militia attacks, and ground invasion that prompted the American government to deem the Darfur conflict a genocide in 2004. Yet, at this moment, a confluence of several independent events may produce a resolution that was not possible before...
...act’s supporters; by operating on the principle of complementarity, the ICC will only investigate cases in which the state with jurisdiction over it is unwilling or unable to investigate or prosecute. Yet on March 31, 2005, when the United Nations Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Resolution 1593, the U.S. was left in the embarrassing position of having to abstain from a resolution calling for an investigation into a situation it had deemed a genocide. Since then, the U.S. government has pledged to support the ICC proceedings...
Listen to photographer Kadir van Lohuizen chronicle the time he spent in the killing fields of Darfur...
...cast a critical but hopeful eye at the peacekeeping organization during a panel discussion titled “Peacekeeping: Can the U.N. Meet the Challenge?” last night at the Institute of Politics. Michael R. Gaouette ’90, a team leader for the U.N. in Darfur; David J. Harland, a member of the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations; and Susana Malcorra, an under-secretary-general in field support, focused on the difficulties the U.N. faces when it tries to preserve order after peace settlements are reached. “Peackeeping uncovers some of the most important...
...brass will still be far more reluctant to use them. So will the public, which wants out of Iraq and isn't that gung ho about an indefinite stay in Afghanistan either. As a result, America's ability to threaten new military action--against Iran, for instance, or in Darfur--has dramatically declined. Our hard power isn't what it used to be--and won't be again anytime soon...