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Author: John Prendergast

Daily Beast Op-ed: Government Ceasefire Is First Step Towards Peace in South Sudan

South Sudan
Daily Beast Op-ed: Government Ceasefire Is First Step Towards Peace in South Sudan
The government and the armed opposition have signed a ceasefire, in a hopeful step after weeks of bloody fighting ...

USA Today Op-ed: Using tech to end wars

USA Today Op-ed: Using tech to end wars
Corporations may not have a direct responsibility to end wars in far-flung corners of the Earth. But when parts of their products may come from a war zone, they can, in fact, help support peace by assuming more control over their supply chains. Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is a case in point ...

Memorandum: Ongoing SPLM Political Crisis and Violence in South Sudan

South Sudan
In this open memorandum we outline possible steps the U.S. could take in addition to what is presently being done, including the immediate deployment to Juba of U.S. Special Envoy Donald Booth, U.S. support for mediation efforts by South Sudanese church leaders or the East African regional organization IGAD (the Intergovernmental Authority on Development), and the creation of safe havens for civilians by the U.N. peacekeeping mission ...

Op-ed: The Achilles Heel of the Anti-Kony Mission

Op-ed: The Achilles Heel of the Anti-Kony Mission
In a time of deeply divided governance, Republicans and Democrats have been united in supporting U.S. efforts to help African forces bring an end to the terror sowed by Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) militia ...

Daily Beast Op-ed: How Congo Defeated the M23 Rebels

Daily Beast Op-ed: How Congo Defeated the M23 Rebels
Good news is hard to come by in Congo, so no one should be surprised to see Congolese citizens dancing in the streets these days, overjoyed by their government’s rare battlefield victory over the reviled M23 rebellion ...

Bashir’s Right Hand Man Comes to New York

Bashir's Right Hand Man Comes to New York
After a firestorm over Sudanese president's potential visit, his right hand man travels to New York this week as record numbers of demonstrators are being killed on Sudan's streets ...

The Economics of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur

The Economics of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur
The Economics of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur in Arabic ...

Daily Beast Op-ed: Is Sudan’s Uprising the Beginning of the End of Omar al Bashir?

Daily Beast Op-ed: Is Sudan's Uprising the Beginning of the End of Omar al Bashir?
Unrest in Sudan is rattling the dictator’s ruthless regime. Enough Project Co-Founder John Prendergast on why these protests mean serious trouble for the tyrant of Darfur ...

AllAfrica Op-ed: What King’s Legacy Means for Africa Today

AllAfrica Op-ed: What King's Legacy Means for Africa Today
While the recent 50th anniversary commemoration of the "March on Washington" to demand rights for African Americans focused attention on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s unfinished domestic agenda in the United States, Dr. King was also strongly committed to a global human rights movement, particularly related to Africa ...

The Economics of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur

The Economics of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur
Economic imperatives are now a major driving force for escalating violence in Darfur. Drawing on firsthand interviews with refugees on the Chadian border with Darfur, as well as many others inside Sudan, this report challenges the oversimplification of inter-tribal disputes and highlights the Sudanese government’s role and ongoing interest in the latest rounds of violence ...