Author: John Prendergast

This is the second installment in a series of letters to President Obama spelling out a practical roadmap to end the crisis in Sudan ...

This is the second installment in a series of letters to President Obama spelling out a practical roadmap to end the crisis in Sudan ...

The Obama administration has an opportunity to fundamentally remake U.S. relations with Africa during its tenure, and a cornerstone of that effort needs to be a much greater emphasis on the most cost-effective element of our foreign policy tools: peacemaking. An investment in ending some of the world’s deadliest, most destructive, and costliest wars would yield great results in those countries and the positive repercussions from such engagement would rebound across the continent ...

The Enough Project is calling on the public to sign its petition asking the U.S. government to act immediately to end the violence against women and children in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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. Don't just declare that genocide is taking place--end the genocide. Don't just try to manage the consequences of crisis after crisis in Sudan--end these crises ...

China has again assumed the Presidency of the U.N. Security Council, a position that it last held in July 2007 when it led the authorization of a U.N. peacekeeping force for Darfur. At that time, Beijing appeared to be responding to a global campaign by activists, in advance of the Olympics, to shame China into using its influence to address human rights crises in locales in which it has significant economic investments. But China's actions have belied its rhetoric, and it has continued to protect its favorite deadly dictators in places like Darfur, Burma, and Zimbabwe. The Chinese government is ...

My testimony today will address threats to the agreement that ended that brutal war—Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). However, I want to focus my remarks on the significant opportunities available right now not just to implement that agreement, but to achieve a lasting peace for all of Sudan, including Darfur. The stakes could hardly be higher. If the CPA unravels, there will be no chance for peace in Darfur, and if Darfur continues to deteriorate, the likelihood increases dramatically of a return to what was—for 20 years—a far more destructive war in the South ...

While the Darfur region of Sudan remains in a deep crisis, there are three significant opportunities immediately for the United States to push for a lasting peace for all of Sudan, Enough Project Co-Chair John Prendergast told the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom at a hearing on Capitol Hill today ...

The ICC’s request for an indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the renewed prospect of an inclusive peace process for Darfur, and the drive toward national elections in 2009 are three major opportunities that the United States and others must urgently seize to bring peace to Sudan ...

A press roundtable and conference call to discuss the Christian Companion, a faith-based study guide and authorized companion to the best-selling Not on Our Watch by actor Don Cheadle and the ENOUGH Project’s John Prendergast ...