Word: sudan
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With talks to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur dragging on for months, why have Western negotiators recently started pushing so hard to to make warring factions strike a peace deal? Perhaps because of the very real possibility that unless a deal is agreed to soon - in the next few days - the violence in Darfur will grow into a full-blown regional conflict, sucking in countries such as Chad and the Central African Republic. And if that were to happen, Western powers and the United Nations know pressure for international intervention will only grow...
...would the U.S. military interact with non-governmental organizations if American troops staged a humanitarian intervention in Sudan next year? That question was the focus of seminars at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., attended by six Harvard undergraduates this past Friday. The students, along with five fellows from the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, toured the college as part of the center’s “Military and American Democracy” study group. The trip, co-sponsored by the International Relations Council, served as a “capstone event for our seminar...
...militias: rape, kidnapping, murder. Susana Ruiz, a University of Southern California student who helped design the game, which is backed by college channel mtvU, hopes it will inspire players to take real-world action by writing President Bush or lobbying schools to divest holdings in firms that operate in Sudan, as the University of California system resolved to do in March: "We want to motivate people to do something right...
...killing has been carried out by the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, which mounts deadly raids on villages and refugee camps, often with the help of Sudanese government soldiers. The U.S. accuses the Janjaweed and its backers of committing genocide against Darfur's black African population, while Sudan's government blames the rebel Sudanese Liberation Army for the violence. Caught in the middle is the African Union's 7,000-person force, which has unsuccessfully tried since 2004 to keep peace...
Despite mounting outrage about the crisis, the world has done little to try to stop it. The U.N. has proposed a 20,000-person peacekeeping force to take over from the African mission. But Khartoum says it will stop U.N. peacekeepers from working in Sudan, despite the threat of sanctions. Even if the government relents, U.N. troops aren't likely to arrive before October. Until then, there will be more bodies to bury in the soil of Darfur...