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,...
Less than a month after announcing a new strategy for Sudan, President Obama left China early this morning without any public reference to having it up Sudan with his hosts.
President Obama needs to publicly engage in the challenges threatening Sudan and Congo, and not doing so with key player China would be an opportunity missed.
By Julia Fromholz Director, Crimes Against Humanity Program President Obama has a full agenda for his current trip to China: climate change, energy, ...
By Ann-Louise Colgan Perpetrators of atrocities in Darfur--like anywhere else--are dependent on at least indirect support from other countries. The g...
By Julia Fromholz Three weeks ago, the Obama administration announced its comprehensive policy toward Sudan, relying on both incentives and pressures...
President Obama's new Sudan strategy lays out a path for the administration to follow, and provides a basis for the advocacy community to hold the administration accountable.
Days after the release of the Obama administration's new Sudan policy, I appeared on Aljazeera with Tahir el-Faky of the Darfuri rebel group Justice and Equality Movement and Mahmood Mamdani.
The Past Two Week's Top Stories in International Affairs: The Real Deal with Iran The 5+1 (UN Permanent Security Council Members plus Germany) were a...
Over the last nine months, the Sudan policy review has taken on something of a mythical air.
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden talked tough when they were presidential candidates, but this administration's day-to-day diplomacy on Sudan has been troubling.
The Obama Darfur policy spells out some ambitious goals including a definitive end to conflict and genocide in Darfur and implementation of the 2005 North-South peace deal.
The U.S. must lead internationally in developing a coalition of countries that can help the people of Sudan find a just and sustainable peace, and the administration will be rightly evaluated by whether it meets its goals.
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 t...
By Julia Fromholz Seven months and a day after President Obama appointed a Special Envoy for Sudan, his Administration has finally agreed on a policy...
Peace activists are hoping that President Obama, with the added luster of a Nobel Prize, will wade more deeply into resolving the conflicts in Sudan and the Congo, the deadliest in the world.
The reality of Darfur's continuing strife does a disservice to the ongoing efforts to keep this issue burning brightly for the policymakers and diplomats who have so far failed to help end the crisis.
Somalia's civil war constitutes a danger to the whole region, but it is not the only cause of instability. How far will chaos spread, and what is the appropriate US policy response?
I just returned after spending 10 days in Eastern Chad, observing Rosh Hashanah in Darfuri refugee camps. There are no Jews there, but there are millions of humans struggling to survive.
Why did I spend Rosh Hashanah in Darfuri refugee camps in Eastern Chad? Why would a rabbi welcome the Jewish New Year in a place where there are no Jews?
The discussion tomorrow will center on the balance of carrots and sticks that the administration will use to press for change in Sudan and how to deal with an independent southern Sudan.
