Category: Reports

The unprecedented attack on a suburb of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, by the Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, demonstrates once again the urgent need for a credible and inclusive peace process to resolve the crisis in Darfur. This paper outlines the urgent steps that must be taken to create a peace to keep in Darfur. Enough and the Save Darfur Coalition have identified these steps through our field work, our consultations with key actors, and our own experience with peace processes in Sudan and elsewhere. In particular, we draw on the model used to negotiate the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ...

The Darfur peace process in currently in shambles. Read our Activist Brief for an outline by Enough and the Save Darfur Coalition of the urgent steps that must be take to create a peace to keep in Darfur ...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has never been so close to losing power, and appears willing to use all means available to physically beat his opponents into submission. As the international community considers its response to the complex crisis in Zimbabwe, its first order of business must be to stop the violence ...

Read our Activist Brief for a summary of the current situation in Zimbabwe, the current options for policymakers, and what you can do to help urge leaders to address the violence and the political crisis ...

This paper presents a new strategy to bring an end to the LRA threat in northern Uganda and the surrounding region: the peace strategy must shift from one that relies solely on negotiations to one that develops leverage through military planning, tries to press Kony to make a choice about his future, and pushes forward a development and security strategy that enables northern Ugandans to return voluntarily ...

Read our Activist Brief for a brief summary of Enough’s recommendations for a new approach to ending the Lord’s Resistance Army threat in northern Uganda ...

It has been almost 15 years since Somali militias shot down two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters over the capital Mogadishu and killed 18 American servicemen in a battle that also killed more than 1,000 Somalis. Since that fateful day in 1993, which had followed decades of American involvement that contributed directly to Somalia’s brokenness, the United States has largely turned its back on the fate of the Somali people. U.S. involvement has been rooted in counter-terrorism efforts in which the suffering of the Somali people has barely been factored beyond the sending of humanitarian band-aids to cover gaping human rights ...

Read our Activist Brief to learn more about the history of U.S. engagement in Somalia, better understand the crucial crossroad where Somalia finds itself, and how the international community should apply Enough’s 3P strategy for crisis response ...

A recent agreement between Chad and Sudan might appear to be good news for a part of the world that has been sliding toward chaos. However, these quarrelsome neighbors have signed four peace accords in the past two years, and in each instance fighting broke out shortly thereafter. A deeper regional crisis is looming, and the international community must finally demonstrate coordinated leadership to help end this proxy war ...

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, Sudan’s unique, ground-breaking political deal that formally ended 21 years of war between the Khartoum government and the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement, or SPLM, is lurching toward breakdown. There are many reasons for this, despite the fact that both sides show clear signs of wishing to avoid outright military confrontation. The principal reason, however, remains Khartoum’s failure to implement the CPA’s Abyei Protocol ...