Tracking the Lord’s Resistance Army in Real-Time
Michael Poffenberger, co-founder and executive director of Resolve, wrote this guest blog about an unprecedented new tool that will virtually track the activities of the LRA and provide a comprehensive overview of attacks on the ground ...
Field Dispatch: Journey into Uncertainty
Over 70,000 people are estimated to have been displaced in clashes between Sudanese Armed Forces, and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army-North in South Kordafan. Yida village is in the northernmost part of Unity State in South Sudan, around 11km from the border with the north, and is now home to around 10,000 people displaced from South Kordofan, but the displaced may need to move again ...
Clark U’s Congo Summit Draws Hundreds of Activists
This past weekend, the Raise Hope for Congo campaign team attended an international summit hosted at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, focused on the crisis in Congo, and how activists and academics can bring about change. The summit, aptly titled “Informed Activism: Armed Conflict, Scarce Resources, and Congo,” attracted close to 400 people, with participants representing students from 39 universities, 17 NGOs, Congolese civil society, media outlets, and the U.S. government ...
Straight Talk on Sudan: Luka Biong Deng
Enough Project Policy Adviser Omer Ismail talks to Luka Biong Deng, formerly a minister in Sudan's unity government. Deng resigned and now heads Kush, a community development organization. Deng also continues to advise the community in Abyei, his hometown ...
Make Your Campus Conflict-Free
Join Raise Hope For Congo's "Conflict-Free Campus" initiative and help bring peace to the Congo by making your campus conflict-free. Learn more at www.RaiseHopeForCongo.org/campus ...
Mariska Hargitay: “Saying Enough to the shame, suffering, and isolation of rape survivors”
Mariska Hargitay, who plays a sex crimes detective on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," shares her Enough Moment ...
10,000 Thumbs Up for Enough Project
With the help of a steady community push, the Enough Project's Facebook fan page passed 10,000 fans early this morning ...
Child Soldiers—Where Is the Help?
The film "Machine Gun Preacher" illuminates the horrifying problem of child soldiers in Africa, but if the U.S. and other nations do not seize the moment to help, a vital opportunity will be lost ...
Clooney Capitalizes on ‘Ides of March’ Buzz to Spur Attention for Sudan
Playing a presidential hopeful in a film released as the U.S. election season is heating up, George Clooney’s “Governor Mike Morris” will no doubt resonate with audiences. But his work with the Satellite Sentinel Project is generating ample real-life significance as it spotlights human rights abuses in Sudan ...
U.S. Diplomats Discuss Why the United Nations Still Matters
President Salva Kiir, leader of the world’s newest state of South Sudan, addressed the United Nations General Assembly last week and met on the sidelines of the forum with other world leaders, including President Obama. Just six years ago, South Sudan was embroiled in a civil war, one of the longest and deadliest of the 20th century. How much credit for that transition is due to the United Nations? Plenty, according to a panel of current and former U.S. officials to the United Nations who gathered recently for an event at the Center for American Progress ...
