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Without strong, resourceful US leadership, the “oil war” will intensify in Southern Sudan, February 11, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1736 words

Without strong, resourceful US leadership in the Sudan peace process, military action will relentlessly continue to increase in the oil regions of southern Sudan. Talisman Energy seems intent on obscuring this basic reality, ...

The nature of Talisman Energy’s commitment to the regime in Khartoum, April 8, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1009 words

Talisman Energy recently reiterated its commitment to stay in Sudan (UPI, April 3, 2002). Further evidence of this commitment is Talisman's recent recourse to European debt markets, an effort to avoid dealing with the ...

Khartoum again bombs civilians and humanitarian operations (in Akuem, Southern Sudan), February 11, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1104 words

The National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum has yet again deliberately bombed civilian and humanitarian targets in southern Sudan, killing innocent children, wounding many others, and sending deadly shrapnel into the ...

Peace in Sudan and the present burden of advocacy, April 5, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1134 words

There is no shortage of desire for a just peace in Sudan among people of goodwill everywhere. And there is widespread appreciation that a window of opportunity to achieve such a peace now exists---however slight, however ...

Is the Bush administration State Department really committed to peace in Sudan? — February 6, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1622 words

"Is the US State Department Truly Committed to Peace in Sudan?" The nominal is answer is "yes," but a real commitment to peace in Sudan requires much more than verbal gestures. It entails a willingness to commit significant ...

The Bush administration: still in search of a Sudan policy, February 4, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1251 words

"The Bush Administration: In Search of a Sudan Policy" The Bush administration continues to reveal an alarmingly disorganized response to Sudan's catastrophic civil war. Neither Special Envoy John Danforth nor the State ...

The diplomatic costs to US efforts to marshal support for a war against Iraq, April 2, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 899 words

Current violence in the Middle East, especially in the context of US efforts to marshal Arab support for a campaign against Iraq, augurs poorly for peace prospects in Sudan. For the most likely political beneficiary of US ...

The Economic rewards of misunderstanding Sudan’s civil war, January 30, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 2066 words

"The Economic Rewards of Misunderstanding Sudan's Civil War" The complexity and ghastly duration of Sudan's civil war have slowly worked to obscure in the minds of many, especially in Canada and Europe, a fundamental reality ...

Baptist Union of Western Canada divests from Talisman Energy, January 24, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 200 words

Baptist Union of Western Canada divests from Talisman Energy Freedom Quest International (Calgary) reports today (January 24, 2002) that the Baptist Union of Western Canada has decided to divest itself of shares in ...

Senate Republicans continue to block conferencing of the Sudan Peace Act, April 1, 2002

24 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 917 words

The Senate Republican leadership continues to block conferencing of the Sudan Peace Act, evidently convinced that they can ride out the storm of outrage over their procedural bottling up of this critically important ...