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...expected, coming to Harvard has expanded my horizons, or at least stretched them further along the Northeast corridor. I’ve learned to navigate an entirely new and un-grid-like city, adjusted to life without round-the-clock pizza delivery, and come to appreciate the charm of Boston’s brick-laden, cobbled-street neighborhoods. Despite the grudging fondness I’ve developed for Beantown, when senior job panic rolled around, I spent my fall submitting applications, racking up frequent flier miles, and assuming this July would see me safely back in the City, where...
...that Harvard’s decision will lead other investors to reconsider their holdings in companies doing business with El Bashir’s genocidal regime. But divestment, with its effect of taking money from the war-waging regime, is but one angle of the campaign. On Friday, the UN special representative on Sudan and the African Union (AU) released a joint statement condemning the recent attack on a small village in southern Darfur where 305 militiamen descended upon the civilians in a predawn raid. We can do more...
...Darfur remains the foremost ranking humanitarian crisis on the UN “watchlist,” the new buzzword amongst activists is the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), launched on Thursday. April 7 by Swarthmore college students, Mark Hanis and Andrew Sniderman. The premise behind GIF is that AU forces on the ground in Darfur should be provided with funds to cover their non-lethal weapon needs. At a conference organized in February by the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Swathmore undergrads sold their idea to students from 92 colleges around the country, who reviewed and reworked this...
Civilian-funded troops are unconventional and unprecedented. In the past, the UN deployed peacekeeping missions and funded them as necessary. However, in the case of Darfur, the UN has shown reluctance and continues to withhold from sending troops to the troubled region. Responsibility has, instead, shifted to the AU, whose peacekeeping troops’ mandate is yet to be ratified by a majority of the states. This will be the first deployment of AU troops and these soldiers have the daunting task of policing a region the size of France on a mandate to observe and report that all parties...
...sort of at a loss for what to do, and I didn’t feel I had a lot of guidance during that period of limbo,” Fridberg says. “I was sort of on an un-doable project for a while...