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This piece first appeared as part of New York Times "Room for Debate." Enough Project Co-founder John Prendergast and other debaters—including Oxfam’s Sudan Country Director El Fateh Osman, Former Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew S. Natsios, Girifna member Dalia Haj-Omar, Chair of Islamic Studies at American University Akbar Ahmed, National Director of STAND Daniel Soloman, and Heritage Foundation Research Associate Morgan Roach—address the question: How can world leaders prevent another humanitarian disaster from taking place in Sudan? ...

Maryland's conflict minerals legislation faced no opposition at a hearing before the State Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee last week, clearing the path for the next step in the legislative process ...

Editor’s Note: This post is intended to provide a contextual background for understanding the complex issues that the Enough Project works on. It is part of the series Enough 101 ...

Regular readers of Enough Said are well aware of the Sudanese government’s ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure—like wells, health clinics, and airstrips for delivering humanitarian supplies—in the Nuba Mountains since last May. In an effort to maintain a public record of the regular bombardments, here are some notes on recent attacks, compiled from a variety of humanitarian and on-the-ground sources ...

A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday (or on occasion, on Saturday) ...

In a new report released this week, Enough Project’s partner organization, Resolve, highlights priorities that the U.S. government should focus on to achieve its objectives of ending the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, and rebuilding affected communities. The report, “Peace Can Be: President Obama’s Chance to Help End LRA Atrocities in 2012,” is based on extensive field research recently conducted by Resolve in Central Africa. It describes tactics that LRA leaders have used to evade arrest and justice for the past 25 years, and examines the challenges that could impede the Obama administration’s strategy to end the operations of the ...

As famine or near famine conditions in South Kordofan and Blue Nile set in, the United Nations, African Union, and League of Arab States presented a proposal earlier this month that has the potential to pave the way for international humanitarian aid to reach civilian populations throughout the two Sudanese states. There is, of course, one problem: The proposal requires Khartoum’s agreement, which, not surprisingly, appears to be long in coming ...

In a recent statement to the United Nations, the Enough Project in conjunction with a coalition of other NGOs is urging the U.N. Human Rights Council to examine the severe atrocities committed by Sri Lankan security forces and rebels during the final months of the country’s 26-year civil war. The statement backs an initiative by United States to press the council to address impunity in Sri Lanka during the HRC’s upcoming session in March ...

Just six months remain before the Somali Transitional Federal Government’s time is up to ready the country for more permanent governing structures and institutions after more than 20 years of civil war. Marking the start of that countdown, British Prime Minister David Cameron convened a high-profile conference today in London to map out plans for concluding the transition and rally support for the many costly initiatives currently underway inside Somalia. But what’s the good of a ‘transition’ that primarily focuses on surface-level tasks—in and of themselves no small feat in Somalia—like replacing the current leaders and building more representative, streamlined ...

Legislation introduced in Congress last week could greatly propel efforts to bring to justice the world’s most wanted war criminals and human rights offenders. If passed, this legislation would bolster initiatives to arrest and convict individuals wanted by the International Criminal Court, or ICC ...