Welcome
Welcome to the Enough Project’s redesigned web site. We at Enough have put a lot of work into the redesign, and we hope you find the new site easier on the eye, more informative, and smoother to navigate. I am also proud to announce our new blog, Enough Said. We will be active bloggers, and we welcome both your comments and insights, and want to make Enough Said a vibrant forum for people talking about some of the most important international issues of the day. One of the key goals of our redesign was to make the site more interactive ...
Bashir on the Beach?
President Bush has been accused of many, many things during his presidency, but as far as I recall, no one has ever accused him of vacationing with a war criminal. That could change if the Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, has his way. Bashir wrote a personal letter to President Bush in early December that not only reiterated much of the government’s usual pabulum about Darfur, but added “The Sudanese people and I welcome you personally to Khartoum, even after you leave office.” It appears that President Bashir is already looking back at the tough talk-little action approach of the Bush ...
Preventing Genocide: A Niche Issue?
Last Monday morning I attended the release of Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers, the culmination of more than a year of work by the Genocide Prevention Task Force, some of the smartest folks in Washington thinking about ways to stop mass atrocities. Listening to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen come together to say “preventing genocide is possible and that striving to do so is imperative” is incredibly encouraging. The report is mostly spot-on, and Heather Hurlbert rightly applauds its recommendation that genocide prevention be integrated into the existing U.S. foreign ...
One Sudanese “War Child” tells his story
War Child is an award-winning documentary that explores the devastating impacts of 22 years of civil war in Sudan through the story of Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier turned hip-hop musician and activist. As a child, Jal fought in the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, or SPLA, in the North-South civil war in Sudan resulted in the deaths of over two million people and the displacement of over 4 million others. Jal’s powerful personal story and his current attempts to help his country’s youth gain access to education and opportunity are glimmers of hope even as the conflict in Darfur ...
Warning Clouds Over Chad
Freshly returned from a trip to the region, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief John Holmes painted a dire picture of the insecurity and banditry plaguing eastern Chad. While Holmes dutifully remained hopeful about the ability of the MINURCAT peacekeeping force to improve the situation, there have been a number of serious warning clouds of late: In July, Refugees International called MINURCAT’s presence in Chad and CAR “largely invisible.” In September, Oxfam blasted the UN’s performance in managing the policing component of MINURCAT. And perhaps most troublingly in October, Doctors Without Borders withdrew their expatriate staff from the ...
The Bush Administration on Somalia: Policy Malpractice
It boggles the mind to imagine how the already horrific situation in Somalia could get much worse. But somehow diplomats in the outgoing Bush Administration are doing their part to turn this crisis into an even greater catastrophe and hijacking the incoming Obama Administration’s policy alternatives by urging Ethiopia to maintain its military presence in Somalia, pressing for an ill-advised U.N. peacekeeping force, and pushing to place Eritrea on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. See Enough’s statement for details on the potential fallout from these moves ...
The UN In Congo: Peacekeepers or Bystanders?
Last week, the New York Times, Human Rights Watch, and the Enough Project provided detailed accounts of the summary executions of an estimated 150 civilians by rebel leader Laurent Nkunda’s CNDP militia in the key town of Kiwanja in eastern Congo. While the rebels terrorized the population of Kiwanja in what HRW called “one of the worst killing sprees” in North Kivu province in the past two years, a contingent of over 100 U.N. peacekeepers was stationed less than a mile away. The New York Times called the Kiwanja massacre a “textbook example” of the continuing failure of MONUC (Mission ...
Beyond Crisis Management in Eastern Congo (Activist Brief)
The beleaguered people of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are justifiably angry. Despite the international community’s $500 million investment in 2006 elections and the world’s largest United Nations peacekeeping mission (costing more than $1 billion per year), the current round of fighting is the most destructive since 2005 and the latest chapter in more than 12 years of near continuous warfare ...
Beyond Crisis Management in Eastern Congo (Strategy Paper)
The beleaguered people of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are justifiably angry. Despite the international community’s $500 million investment in 2006 elections and the world’s largest United Nations peacekeeping mission (costing more than $1 billion per year), the current round of fighting is the most destructive since 2005 and the latest chapter in more than 12 years of near continuous warfare ...
