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Author: John Prendergast

Luol Deng’s Assist for Freedom in Sudan

Luol Deng’s Assist for Freedom in Sudan
Most people know Luol Deng as a basketball player for the championship-contending Chicago Bulls. But Luol has even bigger things on his mind these days than a run at an NBA championship ...

Ashley Judd: “Costs of Convenience”

In this video, Ashley talks about these connections at the base of a massive mine in eastern Congo. And her accompanying essay, “Costs of Convenience,” speaks to the inadvertent personal connection we all have to this violence ...

Congo’s Enough Moment

Congo's Enough Moment
At rare moments during the course of a war, a confluence of factors come together to provide a window of opportunity for real conflict transformation. Now Congo has a unique opportunity to bring an end to more than 125 years of having its people and resources pillaged by colonial powers, international traders, neighbors, and foreign and domestic armed groups ...

Secretary Clinton and Congo’s Enough Moment

Every once in a while during the course of a war, a confluence of factors comes together to provide a window of opportunity for real change. Congo is on the precipice of its own Enough Moment ...

Sudan Activist Call: Prepping for an Important Week

Sudan Activist Call: Prepping for an Important Week
I write today to report that we have recently made significant progress in our efforts, in large part due to your hard work, but the biggest challenges remain ahead. Tune in for a call tomorrow to hear what more we as activists can do during the U.N. General Assembly and in the coming weeks ...

The ‘Enough Moment’ for Confronting Africa’s Human Rights Crimes

As Don Cheadle and I write in The Enough Moment, our book released today, “a strange and beautiful cocktail of hope, anger, citizen activism, social networking, compassion, celebrities, faith in action, and globalization are all coming together to produce the beginnings of a mass movement of people” against human rights crimes and for the cause of peace ...

Avoiding the Train Wreck in Sudan: U.S. Leverage for Peace

Avoiding the Train Wreck in Sudan: U.S. Leverage for Peace
As part of its Sudan Working Group Series, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars released today a paper entitled, “Avoiding the Train Wreck in Sudan: U.S. Leverage for Peace,” as part of a two-piece publication examining international engagement in Sudan ...

Bashir’s Summer Vacation

Bashir's Summer Vacation
President Bashir's trip to Chad yesterday, his first visit to an ICC member state, shows the deep flaws of the international system as it relates to the promotion of human rights ...

What’s Wrong with U.S. Policy toward Sudan, and How to Fix It

What's Wrong with U.S. Policy toward Sudan, and How to Fix It
The time has come for an urgent rethink of how the United States can contribute to peace in Sudan now, building on the lessons of the recent past ...

Report: What’s Wrong with U.S. Policy Toward Sudan, and How to Fix It

The Enough Project has released a new report that argues that U.S. policy is not contributing in a meaningful way to creating peace and justice in Sudan, and suggests alternative steps that officials can take to make peace in Sudan a reality ...