Jon Temin
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Jon Temin is a program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he focuses on Sudan and leads the Institute’s Sudan team. He is the author of more than a dozen publications focusing on Africa, conflict, governance and media in respected journals, edited volumes and newspapers.

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Why Sudan Matters

Posted November 24, 2009 | 18:04:55 (EST)

Foreign policy realists sometimes ask how much seemingly marginal states such as Sudan really matter. The answer is that Sudan matters for many reasons, none more important than the millions dead and displaced due to decades of unnecessary internal violence. Sudan matters now more than ever because two seminal events...

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