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The unprecedented attack on a suburb of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, by the Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, demonstrates once again the urgent need for a credible and inclusive peace process to resolve the crisis in Darfur. This paper outlines the urgent steps that must be taken to create a peace to keep in Darfur. Enough and the Save Darfur Coalition have identified these steps through our field work, our consultations with key actors, and our own experience with peace processes in Sudan and elsewhere. In particular, we draw on the model used to negotiate the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ...

Read our Activist Brief for a summary of the current situation in Zimbabwe, the current options for policymakers, and what you can do to help urge leaders to address the violence and the political crisis ...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has never been so close to losing power, and appears willing to use all means available to physically beat his opponents into submission. As the international community considers its response to the complex crisis in Zimbabwe, its first order of business must be to stop the violence ...

Read our Activist Brief for a brief summary of Enough’s recommendations for a new approach to ending the Lord’s Resistance Army threat in northern Uganda ...

This paper presents a new strategy to bring an end to the LRA threat in northern Uganda and the surrounding region: the peace strategy must shift from one that relies solely on negotiations to one that develops leverage through military planning, tries to press Kony to make a choice about his future, and pushes forward a development and security strategy that enables northern Ugandans to return voluntarily ...

This past Sunday afternoon, the government of Sudan bombed the village of Shegag Karo in North Darfur. One of the bombs fell on an elementary school, killing 6 children. Another bomb destroyed the town’s market, killing 6 civilians and wounding many more. On Monday morning, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum issued a press statement. Did they condemn the attack as a brazen violation of international humanitarian law and a United Nations Security Council ban on offensive military flights over Darfur? No. In fact, the release commemorated the two-year anniversary of the Darfur Peace Agreement, a moribund and counterproductive deal which ...

Read our Activist Brief to learn more about the history of U.S. engagement in Somalia, better understand the crucial crossroad where Somalia finds itself, and how the international community should apply Enough’s 3P strategy for crisis response ...

It has been almost 15 years since Somali militias shot down two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters over the capital Mogadishu and killed 18 American servicemen in a battle that also killed more than 1,000 Somalis. Since that fateful day in 1993, which had followed decades of American involvement that contributed directly to Somalia’s brokenness, the United States has largely turned its back on the fate of the Somali people. U.S. involvement has been rooted in counter-terrorism efforts in which the suffering of the Somali people has barely been factored beyond the sending of humanitarian band-aids to cover gaping human rights ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the armed groups, and international parties to the Goma peace agreement should urgently implement the accord and end the horrific suffering of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children facing brutal violence and deadly diseases in eastern Congo, 63 international and Congolese human rights and aid groups said in a joint statement today ...

A recent agreement between Chad and Sudan might appear to be good news for a part of the world that has been sliding toward chaos. However, these quarrelsome neighbors have signed four peace accords in the past two years, and in each instance fighting broke out shortly thereafter. A deeper regional crisis is looming, and the international community must finally demonstrate coordinated leadership to help end this proxy war ...