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Category: Policy One-Pagers

Democracy: A Key to Peace In Sudan (Activist Brief)

Democracy: A Key to Peace In Sudan (Activist Brief)
The establishment of strong democratic institutions and processes in Sudan are a prerequisite for peace in Darfur and throughout the country. There are three major electoral milestones critical to the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement over the next three years. Read our Activist Brief for a short summary of the report and learn what you can do ...

A Diplomatic Surge for Northern Uganda (Activist Brief)

A Diplomatic Surge for Northern Uganda (Activist Brief)
Disorder within the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, leadership provides an opportunity for negotiators to pursue the conclusion of a deal with LRA leader Joseph Kony. The time to strike diplomatically is now. Read our Activist Brief for a summary of the report and to learn how you can take action now to encourage the U.S. to seize the opportunity to make a deal with Kony and end Africa’s longest-running war ...

An All-Sudan Solution: Linking Darfur and the South (Activist Brief)

An All-Sudan Solution: Linking Darfur and the South (Activist Brief)
If the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, fails, Sudan risks an imminent return to widespread and destructive civil war. The solutions to the Darfur crisis and conflict in the south are the same: the democratic transformation of Sudan. Read our Activist Brief for a short summary of the report and for more information on the key actors and the current situation in Sudan ...

What to do about Joseph Kony (Activist Brief)

What to do about Joseph Kony (Activist Brief)
Successful peace talks in Juba require an agreement about how to deal with unpredictable Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, leader Joseph Kony and his top deputies. Much of the LRA’s senior leadership has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, or ICC, for crimes against humanity. Achieving peace while ensuring accountability for the LRA’s numerous crimes is ideal. Serious obstacles remain to achieving either justice or peace. Read our Activist Brief for more information on how you can encourage your elected officials to take a stand in Juba ...

How to Get the UN/AU Hybrid Force Deployed to Darfur (Activist Brief)

How to Get the UN/AU Hybrid Force Deployed to Darfur (Activist Brief)
Dissension, disarray, deaths, and defections within the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, leadership provide a major opportunity for negotiators to pursue a deal with LRA leader Joseph Kony, while simultaneously concluding peace negotiations being held in Juba, south Sudan. LRA defections complicate efforts to finish the hard work of negotiations, and the deteriorating Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, in south Sudan threatens to destabilize the region further ...

Averting the Nightmare Scenario in Eastern Congo (Activist Brief)

Averting the Nightmare Scenario in Eastern Congo (Activist Brief)
The two massive wars fought in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1996 and 2002 were arguably the world's deadliest since the second World War. With almost no international fanfare, eastern Congo is on the brink of its third major war in the last decade, and little is being done to stop it. The U.S. government can help Congo escape the conflict and secure U.S. interests there (and across the continent) by taking a greater role in diplomacy to resolve the crisis in the east. As is the case with Darfur and northern Uganda, U.S. citizens who care about ...

Let’s Make a Deal: Leverage Needed in Northern Uganda Peace Talks (Activist Brief)

Let's Make a Deal: Leverage Needed in Northern Uganda Peace Talks (Activist Brief)
The peace process for northern Uganda is faltering. The weak and isolated Lord’s Resistance Army may be primarily interested in using broad agreements on principles as a cover to buy time, build strength, and gain undue legitimacy by re-branding themselves as representatives of marginalized northern Ugandans. The United States has a crucial role to play in helping to create the conditions for peace ...

How to Protect Civilians in Eastern Chad (Activist Brief)

How to Protect Civilians in Eastern Chad (Activist Brief)
Half a million internally displaced persons, refugees, and other conflict-affected civilians are vulnerable to the steadily escalating violence in eastern Chad. The regional contagion that is Darfur -- which is fueling instability throughout the region -- requires a comprehensive strategy, of which a crucial component is protecting civilians in neighboring countries ...

Khartoum Bombs and the World Debates: How to Confront Aerial Attacks in Darfur (Activist Brief)

Khartoum Bombs and the World Debates: How to Confront Aerial Attacks in Darfur (Activist Brief)
Military enforcement of a stand alone no-fly zone is not a policy panacea for ending the death and destruction in Darfur, and would likely make matters worse. The focus instead must center on increasing pressure on all parties to move forward in the peace process and on the government, in particular, to facilitate the unconditional and rapid deployment of the hybrid force ...

The Answer to the Lord’s Resistance Army (Activist Brief)

The Answer to the Lord's Resistance Army (Activist Brief)
Absent political pressure from concerned American citizens and credible leadership and clear demands from the U.S. Congress, it is unlikely that the Bush administration will significantly step up its involvement in support of peace in northern Uganda ...