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Genocide Prevention
Site dedicated to analyzing how better methods can be developed to anticipate and prevent genocide. It will focus on ongoing activism, innovative use of information technology, and the international community's efforts to respond... [more]
Site dedicated to analyzing how better methods can be developed to anticipate and prevent genocide. It will focus on ongoing activism, innovative use of information technology, and the international community's efforts to respond.
Genocide prevention, or the "responsibility to protect" as the UN also speaks about the issue is an ongoing responsibility if only because we can not escape the all too recent past. To recall the 18th Brumaire: "The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
The primary editor is Ted Perlmutter, Director of IT and Knowledge Management at the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) at Columbia University. The opinions expressed are his and do not reflect those of CICR.
Quick note via the AP and STAND
Mia Farrow to air alternative ‘Darfur Olympics’
Mia Farrow is Web-casting her own “Darfur Olympics” from a refugee camp on the barren Sudan-Chad border
At the same time as the opening ceremony in Beijing on Friday, Farrow will post footage on the Web from one of a dozen camps in eastern Chad where Darfurians fleeing the conflict have taken refuge. The Web-cast is to include refugee children playing sports and songs contributed by pop singers including REM...
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GENOCIDE IS NOT AN OLYMPIC SPORT As I was watching the Wimbledon final on Sunday with Rafael Nadal defeating Roger Federer, the commercial for the Beijing Olympics certainly caught my attention. But not for the reason that it would be expected. The NBC Olympic promotion music was John Lennon's Imagine. The words written across the screen were Imagine the World United and at the end of the spot the words of ImagineThe World Will Live As One. The Beijing Olympics theme of One World, One...
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Sudan talks to Chinese firms for help in Darfur oil exploration
State-linked Chinese oil services companies are in talks to help Sudan exploit its crude reserves in its troubled Darfur region with the Sudanese army providing security, a company official confirmed Tuesday.
Seismic surveys will only begin once the army has “provided security passages in the area,” an unnamed person with knowledge of the oil exploration plans confirmed.
Protect those doing geophysical work - of course. What a...
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"This woman showed me where she was branded when she was raped. Other women showed me where their tendons were sliced and how they must hobble now." Mia Farrow This is Kalma Camp - population 90,000. Not a blade of grass nor a single tree and, worst of all, there is no safety. The camps themselves are continually attacked. The reported incidents of rape at Kalma Camp are 10 per day. This, in an Islamic culture, where the victims of rape are held culpable. The World Food Program...
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I love music. It can give my feelings a place to feel at one with the universe. It can let me feel okay to feel down. It can lift me up to feel thrilled to be alive. It can be a refuge for a wanting heart. It can be a spiritual experience. It can give me a reason to celebrate with dance. It can touch me in a way that ignites my compassion. What a gift! I meant to post a video or two of music. I didn't intend to be heavy. And the music isn't heavy, but the pictures of Darfuri people are...
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Would you please care? Nobel laureates press China over Darfur Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:44pm GMT UK Reuters By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of Nobel Peace Prize laureates sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday urging the Beijing Games host to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing its ally Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur. "As the primary economic, military and political partner of the Government of Sudan, and as a permanent member of the United...
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Taking refuge In case your local news media didn't print this article or anything about it, here is something the United States Congress did today. President Bush has mentioned Darfur once in a while over the years, but the genocide continues through all his words. Lawmakers Urge China to Help in Darfur By ANDREW MIGA WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 House members are urging China to take stronger action to end the violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. A letter Tuesday signed by...
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"Actress and activist Mia Farrow will be the keynote speaker at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum program “Genocide Emergency: Darfur, Sudan,” on Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the Museum’s Washington, D.C. Next Generation Board, the program will benefit the Committee on Conscience (COC). Also speaking at the event will be John Heffernan, Director of the COC’s Genocide Prevention Initiative, and area Holocaust survivor Margit Meissner...
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Any time I get the chance I look at all of the zines that speak of Africa and the many nations that compose her, I imagine Africa like a golden harp of many strings and the heart she has, is playing slower. I am sad for her; for us. I drew the picture on my computer many years ago At that time I believe it was Rwanda being made to suffer and disintegrate. I drew powerful women in the picture hoping to attract the power that only women know how to use. Women have always known how to comfort...
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DARFUR: Darfur remains insecure, while the government of Sudan continues its non-cooperation with the ICC. The appointment of a new joint AU-UN mediator for Darfur may help move the peace process along.DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Jean-Pierre Bemba, former Vice President of the DRC was...
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DARFUR: The situation in Darfur continues to deteriorate contributing to a rise in banditry and increasing food insecurity and activists continue to call for increased pressure on the Sudanese government.ZIMBABWE: Election violence continues, forcing MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai out of the...
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ZIMBABWE: Election violence continues with the armed forces implicated in the intimidation of opposition activists. Increasing violence against opposition members and the harassment of diplomatic staff illustrate the severity of the situation.DARFUR: The International Criminal Court increased...
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Salih Osman Mahmoud has risked his life to improve the human rights situation in Sudan. A native of Darfur, he worked on human rights issues in that region before joining Parliament as a member of the opposition.
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Julie Flint, co-author with Alex de Waal of Darfur: A Short History of a Long War, discusses some of the preliminary information coming out about the Darfur rebel attack on the Sudanese city of Omdurman.
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Alex de Waal discusses recent upsurge in fighting in Darfur, how it connects to events in Chad, and what to watch for in southern Sudan.
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From AFP Fighting has erupted between the only Darfur rebel group to have signed a 2006 peace accord and Sudanese troops, the United Nations said on Wednesday after the rebels accused Khartoum of attacking a town the rebels control. The United Nations mission in Sudan said that exchanges of fire...
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From the UN News Center The timeline for implementing the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur is being delayed because of difficulties in obtaining land to house the mission offices and staff accommodations and problems relating to the list of troop-contributing...
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From Reuters More than a decade after the United Nations was criticized for failing to stop genocide in Rwanda, the world body is more able to prevent another such atrocity, scholars and U.N. officials said on Wednesday. The idea that internal affairs were outside the scope of international...
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From Reuters Sudan's army has denied attacking the only Darfur rebel faction to sign a peace deal with Khartoum, saying tribal clashes were to blame for the fighting which killed 45 people in Muhajiriya town. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) led by Minni Arcua Minnawi was the only one of three...
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- Darfur: Rebels Call for Probe into Attack, US Evacuates All Staff (coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com)
