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Title: | Darfur: The International Community's Failure to Protect |
Author: | Grono, Nick |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 105 |
Issue: | 421 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 621-631 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | civil wars international politics Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence international relations Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3876768 |
Abstract: | 'Our common interest', the March 2005 report of the Commission for Africa, squarely acknowledged that much more must be done to prevent conflict in Africa. Six months later, 'Responsibility to protect' (or R2P) became the centrepiece of efforts to reform the UN at the 2005 World Summit and is now widely accepted as providing the criterion for international responses to conflict. The most obvious case for the application of the new doctrine is Darfur, but the international community has conspicuously failed to take the steps necessary to protect the people of Darfur. Instead, while the world has been looking on, the regime in Khartoum and its proxy Janjaweed militias have conducted a systematic campaign of atrocities in Darfur since early 2003. This article examines the background of the Darfur crisis, Sudan's responsibility to protect, the international response, and the reasons why the world has not acted. It concludes that the international community lacks the political will to apply enough pressure on the Sudanese regime to change its calculus of self-interest. Until this first ethnic cleansing campaign of the 21st century is reversed, R2P will remain aspirational, not operational. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |