Let there be no mistake, with unfree elections coming in April and a referendum on the independence of the South the following January, Sudan is at dire risk of returning to full-scale war.

Part of the problem, as I addressed in the Washington Post's Outlook section...

This guest post was written by Maggie Fick, Enough's field researcher based in southern Sudan, and originally appeared as a field report on enoughproject.org on December 16, 2009.

Duk Padiet, Jonglei state, Southern Sudan -- Nyamun Dit Luol Kuai saw her husband...

Daniel Maree and Amanda Hsiao from the Enough Project contributed to this post.

In his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture in Oslo, Norway today, President Obama expounded upon the justifications for war and highlighted the pressing human rights crises in Sudan and Congo, saying, notably, that consequences must follow:

In a special opinion piece for CNN today, I highlighted the changes afoot to end the deadly trade in Congo's conflict minerals. Armed groups in eastern Congo generate an estimated $180 million each year by trading four main minerals: tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold.

The op-ed, co-authored by Sasha...

Today's vivid protests and arrests of senior SPLM politicians by Khartoum police clearly demonstrate that the U.S. should not be financing Sudan's electoral charade unless the laws are amended to allow for the basic requirements of a credible election.

It was fanciful of the United States and other...

Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today at a hearing to review the administration's new Sudan policy, I expressed the Enough Project's deep concern that the existing strategy of the United States and the broader international community to prevent all-out war in Sudan is failing.

One...

I just listened to U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell's press conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the other day. Given the difficulties in his current Middle East peace portfolio, he reflected upon his earlier involvement in striking a deal to bring peace to Northern Ireland. He...

In a hard-hitting segment last night, 60 Minutes highlighted the role of gold in fueling Congo's deadly war in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped and over 5 million people have died.

In addition to highlighting the hidden cost of the gold and other conflict minerals used...

This post was co-authored with Enough's Laura Heaton.

We've gotten word that, after an eventful trip to eastern Congo in June and many months in production the all-new segment CONGO GOLD will air on CBS's 60 Minutes this Sunday, November 29. I had the chance to travel to war-torn region...

Two nights ago I went to listen to William Ury, the famous Harvard negotiation specialist and co-author of Getting to Yes. At one point in the speech, he referenced the Camp David peace accords negotiated by President Carter in 1978. Ury talked about a mediation approach called 'single text negotiations,'...

The introduction of the Conflict Minerals Trade Act of 2009 in the United States House of Representatives today marks a critical milestone in the ongoing effort to make the use of conflict minerals in our electronics products a thing of the past. The minerals in our cell phones and electronics...

President Obama has a huge opportunity to advance two of the most important peace and human rights causes on the continent of Africa during his meetings with Chinese officials this week, and particularly in the follow-up to this potentially historic visit.

In both Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the...

For the past seven months, U.S. diplomacy toward Sudan has veered dangerously in the direction of appeasing Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Since taking power in a 1989 coup, the NCP has engaged in a systematic assault on the Sudanese people. The use of starvation as a weapon in...

The ideals spelled out in the Obama administration's new paper on U.S. policy to Sudan are worthy of considerable support. The policy review represents a great deal of work inside the administration to learn lessons from past policy, to correct missteps of the administration over the past seven months,...

This op-ed appears today in the Los Angeles Times.

The Khmer Rouge's Pol Pot had hundreds of thousands of people dig their own mass graves before they were beaten to death in Cambodia's killing fields. Rwanda's Interahamwe militias used machetes to kill 800,000 people in 100...

It is enormously encouraging that the Nobel Committee chose its Peace Prize winner on the basis of the hope he instills and inspires around the world. With the added luster of such an award, peace activists hope that President Obama will wade more deeply into resolving the deadliest conflicts in...

The latest news out of Darfur of a government offensive launched against civilians in North Darfur demonstrates how shamefully self-serving the recent comments are from top U.N., A.U., and U.S. diplomats. They've claimed: "no war as of now," "it is over," and that Darfur is plagued by...

Last week on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, NBA star Tracy "T-Mac" McGrady and I had the chance to discuss the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

Along with Derek Fisher of the Lakers and Baron Davis of the Clippers, Tracy is one of the three co-captains of the Darfur...

Maggie Fick and Laura Heaton from the Enough Project policy team contributed to this post.

The Obama administration will complete its Sudan policy review very soon and go public with its approach for addressing the multiple crises in Sudan, namely the rapidly deteriorating state of the North-South Comprehensive Peace...

In the aftermath of Secretary of State Clinton's trip to Africa, the U.S. has a chance to help bring an end to two of the great unfolding tragedies of the 21st century. Together, Sudan and Congo represent two of Africa's largest countries, two of Africa's richest natural resource bases, two...