Yesterday I told you that while churning through documents declassified through FOIA can be frustrating, you do occasionally come across a few gems. An example: In a demarche sent by the State Department to the US embassy in Senegal on February 11, 2005, the talking points to be used in trying to convince the Senegalese […]

Thanks to those of you who have started submitting some really thoughtful questions for my upcoming interviewees. My interview with the ICC Prosecutor is scheduled for April 27, so I should have the podcast of your questions up and out to you about 24 hours after that.

What is so difficult to understand about this?? Yes it is true that the trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, is taking place at one of the ICC’s courtrooms in The Hague – but he is being tried by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The Christian Science Monitor is the object of my […]

So I know this is supposed to be all about Darfur – but forgive a brief detour to my Australian home – to celebrate another small step in the long road towards chipping away at 220 years of racism in Australia. Today the Australian government led by Prime Minister Rudd, signed the UN Declaration on […]

Check out this interesting piece on genocide prevention by Tod Lindberg  in the Wall Street Journal. His reflections on trying to get some semblance of cooperation and coordination between the various regional and international organizations who could, collectively, have pulled together the resources needed for civilian protection in Darfur, fits depressingly well with everything I […]