A chronology of international responses to the Darfur genocide over the past year provides a deeply dispiriting time-line, and suggests how unlikely it is that security for civilians and humanitarians will improve any time ...

"During the last six months, we have made slow but credible and considerable progress in helping resolve this Darfur situation,' [Ban] told a news conference in Geneva." (Reuters [dateline: Geneva], July 2, 2007) In judging ...

The UN Secretary-General has apparently assumed as his primary responsibilities in responding to the Darfur crisis a contrivance of meaningless optimism, a whitewashing of deteriorating security conditions in the greater ...

Almost as if to mirror Darfur itself, news reporting and other accounts of the vast crisis in western Sudan and eastern Chad have become less and less coherent. Attempts at synthesizing what we know, from the broadest range ...

Part One of this analysis examines in some detail the nature of ongoing military violence in Darfur and eastern Chad, as well as the lack of any reasonable expectation that security on the ground will improve in the near or ...

Chairman Tierney and other distinguished Members of this Subcommittee: As human security in Darfur and eastern Chad continues to deteriorate; as 4.5 million conflict-affected human beings face ongoing threats of violence, ...

On August 31, 2006, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1706, authorizing a peace support operation for Darfur consisting of 22,500 UN troops, civilian police, and Formed Police Units. The force was to deploy "rapidly" ...