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Welcome to the Enough Project’s redesigned web site. We at Enough have put a lot of work into the redesign, and we hope you find the new site easier on the eye, more informative, and smoother to navigate. I am also proud to announce our new blog, Enough Said.

The Cycle of Ineffective Crisis Management

John Boonstra responds to our own Julia Keyser’s analysis of the “re-hatting” of peacekeeping missions by the United Nations, noting the “predictable double-dip of disappointment” that occurs when regional forces and then UN blue helmets successively fail to keep non-existent peace in Sudan or Somalia.

No News is not Good News

Tara Sonenshine, who is very savvy about the media, has a good post up on Huffington about the continued economic woes of the newspaper business and its impact on foreign reporting.

Murder by Numbers

A very interesting piece in the Washington Post today on how people respond to suffering and mass atrocities.

Too Little; Too Late

In its waning weeks, the Bush Administration appears to be feeling a new urgency in dealing with Darfur.  The administration just announced a new emergency airlift of vehicles and supplies to the UN Mission in Darfur.

The New Yorker profiles humanitarian workers in eastern Chad

A recent New Yorker article, “Lives of the Saints,” by Jonathan Harr, details the work of the United Nations Refugee Agency (also known as UNHCR) in eastern Chad.

Why We Like Kristof

Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times op-ed, “A New Chance for Darfur,” underlines why a new Obama administration is well placed to take “serious steps” to end the crisis in Darfur.

The LRA strikes back (on civilians)

Although Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony thinks he is a messiah and claims to be a fundamentalist Christian, he apparently had no qualms about ordering his notoriously brutal rebel army to commit horrific acts of death and destruction against local Congolese populations as the LRA fled their outpost in Congo’s Garamba National Park following the launch of  “Operation Lightening Thunder,” joint offensive begun in mid-December by the armies of Uganda, Congo, and southern Sudan.

The Elephant in the Room

We here at Enough love gorillas, elephants and people. As part of its Planet in Peril series, CNN sent correspondent Lisa Ling to southeastern Chad to report on the illegal poaching of elephants in the region.

UN Take-overs: Do they help or hurt?

The recent pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have piqued international interest in the state of anarchy in Somalia.