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Webcast Jan 22 Darfur Policy Expectations for the Obama Administration

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Date: 
Jan 16, 2009
Author: 
John Prendergast and Jerry Fowler
        
      
 
WEBCAST: Save Darfur Coalition and The Enough Project Panel
On the President-elect Obama and Darfur
 
WHAT: Webcast on Darfur Policy Expectations for the Obama Administration
 
WHEN: Thursday, January 22, 2009 – 2 p.m. EST to 2:45 p.m. EST
 
 
Please register at http://www.enoughproject.org/webcast  if you plan to participate
 
WHO:

John Prendergast, Co-chair of the Enough Project, an Africa policy expert, activist, and author who has participated in numerous peace processes in Africa, including his service at the National Security Council and the Department of State during the Clinton Administration.
 
Jerry Fowler, President, Save Darfur Coalition, an expert on genocide and international law. An international human rights lawyer and author, he previously served the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Lawyers’ Committee on Human Rights.
 
About the Web Cast:
The new administration opens a real opportunity for the United States to use its tremendous experience in peacemaking to finally resolve the Darfur conflict. A policy letter has been sent to the new President from the Save Darfur Coalition and the Enough Project advocating an end to genocide, war, and crises in Sudan. It details a practical plan to bring peace to the region. Our two experts will discuss the plan and their expectations for the new administration: who the key players will be, the likely timetable and what priority peacemaking in the Sudan will get.
  
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The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of 180 faith-based, advocacy and human rights organizations - raises public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and mobilizes a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of people throughout the Darfur region. The coalition's member organizations represent 130 million people of all ages, races, religions and political affiliations united together to help the people of Darfur. For more information on the coalition, please visitwww.SaveDarfur.org
 
Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity. Founded in 2007, Enough focuses on crises in Sudan, Chad, eastern Congo, northern Uganda, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. Enough’s strategy papers and briefings provide sharp field analysis and targeted policy recommendations based on a “3P” crisis response strategy: promoting durable peace, providing civilian protection, and punishing perpetrators of atrocities. Enough works with concerned citizens, advocates, and policy makers to prevent, mitigate, and resolve these crises. To learn more about Enough and what you can do to help, visit www.enoughproject.org.
 
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe that Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure that our national policies reflect these values. We work to find progressive and pragmatic solutions to significant domestic and international problems and develop policy proposals that foster a government that is "of the people, by the people, and for the people."