Testimony of John Prendergast – Human Rights Violations in Sudan
Testimony of John Prendergast, Founding Director of the Enough Project, before the United States Congress Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing on “Human Rights Violations in Sudan,” given on March 4, 2015 ...
MSNBC Op-Ed: How John Kerry could help bring peace to Congo
The last time two Americans of this prominence traveled to Congo (then Zaire), it was for the boxing match of the century: the Rumble in the Jungle between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali ...
Daily Beast Op-Ed: Preventing Genocide in South Sudan
Twenty years after Rwanda’s genocide, the world’s newest state—not Syria or Darfur—is the region most in danger of mass exterminations along ethnic lines ...
Daily Beast Op-ed: Before There’s a Genocide: The Slaughter in South Sudan Must Stop
Hate radio; butchered men, women and children; ethnic revenge—the tragedy of South Sudan’s civil war grows worse by the day. This new op-ed by the Enough Project's John Prendergast and Justine Fleischner provides solutions and calls for more international action to bring this violence to an end ...
Still a Problem From Hell, Two Decades After Rwanda
Twenty years after Rwanda’s horrors, there are signs of hope for a more effective international response to future genocides—but only if we recognize the evolution in genocidal tactics. This op-ed by John Prendergast originally appeared in The Daily Beast on the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide ...
Rwanda 20 Darfur 10: New Responses to Africa’s Mass Atrocities
As commemorations unfold honoring the 20th anniversary of the onset of Rwanda’s genocide and the 10th year after Darfur’s genocide was recognized, the rhetoric of commitment to the prevention of mass atrocities has never been stronger ...
Op-ed: Another Kind of Surge
A little over three years ago, in advance of the referendum for South Sudan's independence, the great fear of the Sudanese and the broader international community was that the war between the north and south -- a war that was perhaps the second-deadliest globally since World War II -- might reignite ...
Op-ed: The New Face of African Conflict
As a new wave of violent conflicts has ravaged Africa, borders and conventional peace processes have done little to contain them ...
Testimony of John Prendergast – U.S. Policy Toward Sudan and South Sudan
Testimony of John Prendergast, Co-Founder of Enough Project, before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Human Rights, and International Organizations on U.S. policy on Sudan and South Sudan given on February 26, 2014 ...
South Sudan Field Dispatch: Peace Must Come Soon
Recent fighting in South Sudan -- marked by evident war crimes and crimes against humanity -- must be resolved through an inclusive peace process, according to an Enough Project field dispatch authored by Enough Co-Founder John Prendergast ...