Ilaria Allegrozzi works as the Governance and Humanitarian Affairs officer at the Cooperation Office of the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I asked her about the Darfur advocacy community in Italy. Is there an advocacy movement for Darfur in Italy? Yes. It’s called Italians for Darfur. What can you tell us about it? It’s […]
A conversation on strategic issues facing advocates . . .
May 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Hi everyone As I’m researching and writing this book, there are a number of issues that come up time and time again – and that I therefore spend a lot of time thinking through. One of these relates to strategic choices that the advocacy community has faced – and continues to face today. To both […]
GOS interference forces Mandate Darfur to cancel
May 8, 2009 by 2 Comments
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has canceled it’s much-anticipated Mandate Darfur conference, scheduled to start in Addis next week. They posted the notice on their website moments ago. I’m almost too angry to respond. I can’t tell you how many Darfuris and Darfur advocates have been talking with excitement about the fact this conference was happening […]
Aid agencies: Between a rock and a hard place
May 7, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In a blog post that is worth reading in full, Rob Crilly details the impossible situation the expelled aid agencies have been put in and asks, “Would you, given these circumstances, ever consider returning to a country that has done all this? Particularly if the deal essentially involved you changing your name thus admitting that […]
Fed Up
May 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I haven’t posted for a few days because I’ve been focused on drafting Chapter 4 of my book. It reconstructs the messy process through which we reached the (surreal) point in August 2006, of the UN Security Council saying it “invites the consent” of the Sudanese government to the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur. […]
ICC Prosecutor on why we keep failing on “never again”
April 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Interesting excerpt from my podcast with Luis Moreno Ocampo this week: “We say ‘never again’ but we have no institutions to do a real ‘never again’ . . .” The excerpt is 1 min 52 secs. You can listen herePrzepraszam, ten artykul jest dostępny tylko w języku angielskim Interesting excerpt from my podcast with Luis […]
In Obama we trust (?)
April 29, 2009 by 1 Comment
100 days in Office. No progress on Darfur. The hope held by so many is being put to the test. It’s an old story – We look at a situation of failure and say “if only” factor X was different, the problem would be resolved. It’s a trap many advocates walked themselves into at the […]
Podcast: Luis Moreno Ocampo responds to your questions
April 28, 2009 by 1 Comment
Hi everyone I had the chance to ask eight of the questions you submitted through the website to the ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, yesterday. As I told him, there were more questions than we had time for and so I prioritized those that had been asked by more than one person.Przepraszam, ten artykul jest […]
Approach to selection of questions for podcasts سياسة استخدام الاسئلة المقدمة Mes normes en ce qui concerne l’utilisation des questions reçuesW jaki sposób wykorzystam Państwa pytania
April 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Hi everyone In preparing for my first podcast interview – scheduled for tomorrow – it became apparent that I am not going to have time to ask every one of the questions that you have submitted. This has forced me to use some discretion in deciding which questions to exclude. In the interests of transparency […]
Perceptions from outside the U.S.
Hi everyone Another “ongoing conversation” I’m hoping to start this week is about how the U.S. based Darfur advocacy movement is perceived by people outside the U.S. I’ve asked a few friends and colleagues from around the world who were selected as 2007 Global Young Leaders on Genocide Prevention, to contribute their thoughts. To start […]