ENOUGH Project (Washington, DC)
22 April 2008
press release
Washington, DC — It's bad enough that the international community has failed, five years in, to end the genocide in Darfur, and worse still that it reacted with no urgency when the Darfur crisis bled into neighboring Chad. With the root causes of conflict in each country still untended, and tensions between the two governments rising, this regional crisis is poised to deepen.
In ENOUGH's most recent report, Policy Advisor Colin Thomas-Jensen argues that relations between Chad and Sudan are so volatile and international diplomacy so feeble that a recent non-aggression pact between the two countries is actually a warning sign for more conflict to come.
These quarrelsome neighbors have signed four peace accords in the past two years, and in each instance fighting broke out shortly thereafter. "Diplomacy thus far to deal with the dangerous proxy war between Sudan and Chad has been mostly empty theatrics," says Thomas-Jensen. "A full-court diplomatic press to resolve the conflict in Darfur must be matched with efforts to bring about profound political changes inside Chad and, ultimately, end the proxy war between Sudan and Chad."
Unless the United States and other key international actors boost their diplomatic capacities in the region and get more involved in the peacemaking process, the region will remain a humanitarian and human rights catastrophe.
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whoever's talking about black on black violence is embarassing himself.
the sudanesse crisis is arab on black and i can bet everything i own you didn't complain about white on white violence when you were learning about world war II in your summer school history class.
You have to realize there is little physical difference between black arabs and black Chadians, or black Sudanese. Yes it is arab on black violence, but they are black arabs. Lets research our comments a little more before critisizing others.
it amazes me that we as black people can not come together all around the world. in america it is the same. black on black violence. besides africa, america is the only other place it happens. i wonder do we as black people realize we are over a billion strong in the world. i know we have different tribal differnces but it is time to change the world. in america black fight for rights and dont even appreciate the free ride that is given to us. we dont use what we have to get ahead. its crazy. im tring to… [Read Full Text]