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Q1: Can pressure from citizens ever add a foreign policy issue to the list of traditional national interests? Or can citizens only impact the sense of urgency around an issue that was already a traditional national interest to start with?

Q1: Can pressure from citizens ever add a foreign policy issue to the list of traditional national interests? Or can citizens only impact the sense of urgency around an issue that was already a traditional national interest to start with?

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.

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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.

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 …

I haven’t posted for a few days because I’ve been focused on drafting Chapter 4 of my book.

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’ . . .”