Hosted by the New America Foundation Please join us on Tuesday, February 1st for a spirited conversation with Rebecca Hamilton and Juan E Méndez, former UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, to be followed by a cocktail hour to celebrate the publication of Fighting for Darfur.
Archives for January 2011
Sudan Dispatch: Is the End in Sight?
January 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Juba, Sudan — In just four days, the people of southern Sudan will begin voting in a referendum on whether to become an independent nation. In hundreds of interviews over the past six years here, I have yet to meet a southerner who doesn’t want freedom from northern rule. People here are literally counting down […]
Gareth Evans on Fighting for Darfur
January 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
“Rebecca Hamilton captures brilliantly the passion and commitment of the Save Darfur movement, but is also cool and clear-headed about what went wrong. She is especially strong on the ever-present risk for any mass campaign organization of over-simplifying multi-dimensional and ever-changing situations. Complex solutions for complex problems don’t make good bumper stickers, and getting what you wish for doesn’t always address the real issues. This is ‘lessons learned’ writing at its best, compelling reading for policymakers, community activists and anyone anywhere ashamed at our inability to stop mass atrocity crimes, and determined to make the now almost universally accepted responsibility to protect principle a universal reality on the ground.”
— Gareth Evans, Foreign Minister of Australia 1988-96; Co-Chair, International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty 2000-01; and author of The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All
For southern Sudan, a historic vote for independence
January 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
JUBA, SUDAN – One of Alfred Lado’s earliest memories is from Jan. 1, 1956. He can be that specific because it was the date that Sudan got its independence from British colonial rule. A child at the time, he did not know the significance of the event, but on that day his brother told him […]
