I’ve spent the morning going over the 1999 Report of the UN Secretary General on the Fall of Srebrenica. I found it depressing when I first read it years ago, but re-reading it now in the context of writing my chapter on the passage of UN Res. 1706 (a.k.a. the “invites the consent” resolution) is […]
Reeves responds to Pronk’s “switch-out” deployment idea
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
FYI – I’ve just posted a comment Eric Reeves sent through: “Reply to Pronk’s UNMIS/UNAMID “switch-out” deployment plan” You can read it in the comments below the Pronk podcast.
Clarification on podcast summary
May 27, 2009 by 1 Comment
Thanks to Marc Gustafson for his comment on the Pronk podcast, where he pulls me up on the incompleteness/bias in my summary. Marc writes:
Jan Pronk answers your questions
May 26, 2009 by 4 Comments
In this 30-minute podcast I ask former UN Special Representative to the Secretary General for Sudan, Jan Pronk, questions that you submitted through the website, plus a few follow-up questions of my own. (My apologies for the poor sound quality at the beginning of the interview – it gets better once Pronk starts speaking at […]
Coming up this week
May 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Hi everyone Apologies for the scarcity of posts the past fews days – my travel schedule has made accessing internet time a little tricky. [And on a personal note, it meant I missed reaching my foster brother by phone back in Australia on his 25th birthday – so great to speak to you today though […]
From Sarajevo
May 23, 2009 by 1 Comment
I’m in Sarajevo right now, which is a stunningly beautiful city, but the recent past is viscerally present – not only in the buildings ridden with bullet holes, but in other ways too. An explosion went off in the hills that surround the town yesterday morning – people were speculating a landmine, but it sounded […]
Charging for attacks on peacekeepers
May 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The Age – one of Australia’s main national broadsheets, just published a piece I wrote about the charges against Abu Garda at the ICC. I’m not a fan of the headline they put on it, but my hat goes off to them for continuing to cover Darfur (like this piece they ran on JEM rebels being […]
Questions for the advocacy community: Q2 – Eric Reeves
May 20, 2009 by 2 Comments
Q2: Is citizen advocacy at its most effective when it generates maximum “noise” on an issue , or do citizen advocates need to attach particular policy prescriptions to the noise they make? Eric Reeves: The value of advocacy “noise” per se varies as a crisis emerges; it is obviously most useful when there is simply […]
Questions for the advocacy community: Q2 – Erin Mazursky
May 20, 2009 by 4 Comments
Q2: Is citizen advocacy at its most effective when it generates maximum “noise” on an issue , or do citizen advocates need to attach particular policy prescriptions to the noise they make? Erin Mazursky: In April 2006, 75,000 people assembled on the Washington Mall calling for “peace in Darfur.” The message was simple, and perhaps […]
Questions for the advocacy community: Q3 – Eric Cohen
What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues? Some recent high-visibility discussions and critiques of the “save” Darfur movement focus on knowledge – Sudan […]