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Crisis in Congo

45,000 people die each month, mostly from the crippling effects of widespread displacement in the country’s eastern provinces.LEARN MORE »

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Crisis in Uganda

Rarely in human history has such a small group of people caused so much suffering for so many as is the case in northern Uganda. LEARN MORE »

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A Peace Surge for Sudan

The message of Sudan activists all over the United States is clear: Don't try to contain the damage from the war in Darfur--end the war.
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Somalia in Peril

Deeply flawed U.S. policies have helped push Somalia from crisis to catastrophe, with almost half the population in need of aid.
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Zimbabwe’s Freefall

President Robert Mugabe presides over political and economic freefall: catastrophic inflation, organized political violence, and now a cholera epidemic.
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Chad’s Rebellion Season

Violence in Chad's volatile eastern region bordering Darfur has made nearly 200,000 people homeless since 2005.
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  • John Norris

    Welcome to the Enough Project’s redesigned web site. We at Enough have put a lot of work into the redesign, and we hope you find the new site easier on the eye, more informative, and smoother to navigate. I am also proud to announce our new blog, Enough Said. We will be active bloggers, and we welcome both your comments and insights, and want to make Enough Said a vibrant forum for people talking about some of the most important international issues of the day.

    One of the key goals of our redesign was to make the site more interactive. Building a permanent constituency against genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity is simply too big a job to think that anyone can do it on their own. We need your help and want you to be part of a community of shared values. Published a letter to the editor on Darfur? Send to us, and we will post it. Do you have photos or a write-up from a Congo event you held in your community? Send it on; we will share the news. Many thanks.

    John Norris, Executive Director, The Enough Project

  • A very interesting piece in the Washington Post today on how people respond to suffering and mass atrocities. The article features comments not only from my colleague, John Prendergast, but insights from the research of Paul Slovic. Slovic’s basic thesis: people’s emotional response to tragedy and suffering essentially becomes watered-down and more diffuse as the sheer number of people suffering rises.

    The fundamental logic is generally sound, but I would also ask: why then did people respond so viscerally to the attacks of September 11 and the mass casualties inflicted on that horrible day? Several factors: the attacks were intensively covered by the media; the stories were presented in very human, personal terms; and, it was very easy for most Americans to picture themselves in such a setting. I would argue that the real lesson of Slovic’s work is not that people don’t care about killings in large numbers; it is that caring becomes much more difficult when the human element of mass killings becomes blurry and loses focus. I imagine Slovic would agree.

  • In its waning weeks, the Bush Administration appears to be feeling a new urgency in dealing with Darfur.  The administration just announced a new emergency airlift of vehicles and supplies to the UN Mission in Darfur. What exactly is being supplied is still unclear, although the administration says this move falls short of direct U.S. military involvement in the conflict. It would be interesting to know the degree to which this decision was coordinated with the incoming Obama team.

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